A Crying Shame (33 page)
Authors: William W. Johnstone
Sheriff Saucier lifted his shoulders and spread his hands in a gesture of
So what?Ӊa body movement that only a Cajun can express so eloquently.
So what?”âa body movement that only a Cajun can express so eloquently.What's the foreman's name?”Cooper. Doug Cooper. Is this supposed to be leading somewhere, Badon?”Lived here long?”All his life. All his forty-two years. He ...” The sheriff paused, reflecting for a moment. He sighed.He was found abandoned when he was about ... six or seven months old. Found on a doorstep.”Where?”Other side of the swamp.”Jon smiled.
Now isn't that interesting? Many of these around this area?”
Now isn't that interesting? Many of these around this area?”Now that you mention it, yes. A few that I know of. But it doesn't prove a damned thing. Look, Badon, if Cooper ... the others ... are related to those beasts, Links, as you call them . . .” Saucier shook his head, expelling a breath of air.Why wouldn't those people want to live close to them?”Maybe they don't wish to be âone of them.' ”Speculation. Conjecture.” Mike brushed it off.If I were you, Mike,” Badon said.I'dâ”Other books
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