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EMRTCalled to let him know Kerney was poking around him escorted? If so, that meant it wasn't a chance encounter. Sh
aw had hauled ass down fr
Dr. Daniel H. Lopez
om Virden in t
ime to intercept
Kerney and find out
where he'd been
. As before, he'd acted cordial and no
t in the least uptight. But then
- Kerney had playe
- d the innocent
- , had careful
- ly omitted
- mentioning al
- l that he'd seen
- , and had delibera
- tely reassured Shaw that he
- wasn't into any kind of cop mode. If Sh
aw was into something illicit, chances
were good that he would backtrac
- k on Kerney. Whe
- re the ranch road curve
- d out of sight of
- the
- horse co
- rral, Kerney st
opped the truck, got his
binoculars out of the glove box, hustled
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- up to a small r
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- ise, and stretch
- ed out in th
- e tall bunch
- grass. Through the binoculars
- he could see the dust tr
ail of Shaw's pickup heading south toward Chin
aman Hills on the Sentinel Butt
- e Ranch.
- Chances were that S
- Payroll
- haw would lo
- se Kerney'
- s tire t
racks in a hard rock portion
of the ranch road that curved aro
- und the base of Chinaman
- Hills. If not, so be it. Eager to
- get to Virden, K
- erney returned to his
- pickup and drove away. He'd never been to the settlement before
and knew nothing abou
t it.Although he was a native of the stat
- e and enjoyed exploring it, Kerney had yet to se
- e it all and probably never would.
- New Mexico was larger than the combined landmass of the United K
- Scale-up of synthetic methods and remote mixing facilities
- ingdom and Ireland. Within its boundaries were the soar
ing southern Rocky Mountains,
the bone-dry Chihuahuan Des
- ert, the windswe
- pt high eastern
- plains that butted up against deep cany
- on land gorges,
