A Crying Shame (78 page)
Authors: William W. Johnstone
Jimmy, we'd better get a press release put together . . . just in case.”Yeah. I've been thinking about that. Got one all ready to go.”And I think I'd better start moving some troopers into the parishes around Fountain,” Jeansonne said.I'll do it quietly. When the news breaks, there's going to be a lot of shooting, I'm afraid; panic with it.”All right. We can't sit on this much longer. That goddamned Badon.”Seventy-two hours max, Jimmy.”You think that's all the time we have?”Maximum.”Shit!”After that it really hits the fan.”Don't remind me.”I think we'd better think about evac plans, Jimmy.”The governor's head was pounding with waves of pain. God, he felt bad. Couldn't think straight. What ta do? In too deep to back out of this thing.
We'll evac in seventy-two hours.”
We'll evac in seventy-two hours.”Jeansonne spoke what was on both their minds.
Do we have an extra two hundred thousand lying around, Jimmy? I don't want to lose more men.”
Do we have an extra two hundred thousand lying around, Jimmy? I don't want to lose more men.”Other books
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