The long journey from New Mexico to Coffeyville took two full days, with each of them taking turns at the wheel. Emmett was driving when they passed through Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was now only about eighty miles away from the town where he’d made his mark. As he drove on, his mind turned to Julia. He was sure she would be sick with worry, and he now felt bad for having left her in the dark about all this. But the truth was, Julia was a God-fearing Christian woman, and she would not have approved of all this craziness.
Having been asleep for the past six hours, Jimmy began to stir. “Where we at?”
“We’re close,” said Emmett. “We just passed Tulsa.”
“I never been to Tulsa,” remarked Jimmy. “I woulda liked to have seen it.”
“You ain’t missing much. It’s a big city, sure, but it’s changed so m
