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Authors: William W. Johnstone

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Sheriff Saucier lifted his shoulders and spread his hands in a gesture of
So what?”—a 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 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 ‘one of them.' ”
Speculation. Conjecture.” Mike brushed it off.
If I were you, Mike,” Badon said.
I'd—”

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