Chapter 85
He noticed the snake that had wound itself around the front post was gone. Small wonder, he figured. With all the shooting going on, Owens thought he would have slipped off somewhere too if he'd been over there. He wondered if the snake had been killed or whether it had found a hole to hide in. Another ripple of revulsion ran down his back. Sooner or later, someone would have to go over there and perhaps trip over the reptile. He wasn't going be that person though ... not with his seniority, he wasn't. Being the boss had some benefits. A movement caught his eye and he jerked the glasses back to the center of the stone building. Slowly, almost ponderously, the door opened and remained open. Water in the river's shallows rippled as a sudden gust of wind pushed miniature waves across the cu
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