Chapter 6: Where Is He?
Efren
Efren raked stiff fingers through his hair as Denis spoke with the man who’d been riding toward them while their small band traveled west toward Proye. The man raised his brows as Denis questioned him, obviously unused to being interrogated on the road.
But though the stranger seemed attentive and curious, he exhibited no signs that he was holding back or being outright dishonest, and he shook his head in reply to each of Denis’s questions. No, he hadn’t seen the wagon Denis described, nor had he seen those horses.
Neither had residents living along this road that they’d questioned so far. Unlike that woman on the north-south road, none could claim that they’d been particularly attentive to the traffic, so they couldn’t positively say it hadn’t gone by, on
