Chapter 54
A SMALL GROUP turned out for Tuesday’s meet. Bing was in Brookside helping Marie pack up the essentials required to make chez Sensabaugh her primary residence. Marva was with Chet attending to details for his mother’s funeral. Grantham and Kirsten were at a meeting of North American Fox Chasers Association officials in their Northeast region. Work duties had finally caught up with several of those who had used up their leave to go chasing foxes on weekday mornings. Cecelia was showing a property to a prospective client, but Dorcas was there with one of her employer’s young horses in training.
Crispie cast hounds into the first covert as Ryman directed. The pack opened almost immediately. But it was a different cry, not the familiar enthusiastic certainty of a hot line of fox s
