“What makes you think that?” Annie asked.
Nathan shrugged.
“Gut feeling.”
His team members looked at one another and smiled, since Nathan Thomas’ ‘gut feelings’ were eerily accurate most of the time.
“Okay, so, after Benji was shot, what was the next location?”
“Fort Belknap,” Lizzie answered. “Where nothing happened.”
Nathan marked it as the fourth location, with an asterisk, and made a note about it on the sidebar.
“Then it was Sally Rutherford, who is connected to Fort Mason,” he concluded.
He stepped back and looked.
“Not really a consistent pattern or logical order of sequencing here,” he told his team. “Do you see it? He started here, in the southwest, at Concho. Doesn’t make sense to me. Why not start at either the top or the bottom of the trail route? Why start at some ran
