Today’s
excerpt is from Bigfoot Bait, Book #2 of the Becker Trilogy. The first day in
the forest looking for the kidnappers and the girls, the hunt team comes up
dry…except for a false lead. Enjoy and
have a fantastic day.
m.j.
With night
arriving, those in Jim’s hunting team were much less confident, and certainly
not proud in the least with their efforts.
During their day, only Dan and Janet had even a sniff of possibly
finding where Biden and Clay were. On
the second road assigned to them, Janet drove down it very slowly, as was their
habit. Suddenly, Dan saw something on a
very small path. “Stop, honey—we may
have found what we’re looking for. Pull
well off the road.”
Janet did as
told before she and Dan got out of their car.
Dan walked to the path, with Janet right behind him. He knelt down and looked at the tall
grass. It had been disturbed…in his
opinion, recently enough that it could have been done by Biden and Clay. He checked the area over carefully, then
started walking, as he glanced at his wife.
“Honey, two vehicles came this way a few days ago. You walk on the other side of this path—stay
back several feet.”
“Oh, sure—the
old ‘wife six paces behind her man’ trick.”
“Hush.”
When they
reached where the two vehicles had been parked, Dan was sad to see them
gone…via still another path. Before
following the second path, he searched the area. In time he found the remains of what to him
was obviously where an animal had been hung and gutted. The entrails had been well gone over by various
small creatures, but he could tell they were too large to have been human. At least that
pleased him.
Janet looked at
the mess. “Please tell me this is from
something other than a human.”
“It is—probably
hunters. They must have field dressed
whatever it was they shot. From the size
of the guts, I’d say it was probably a bear.
At least something bigger than a human.
Come on, we better follow the route they took out of here, since they
didn’t go back the way they came.”
“You notice how
big those damned flies were?”
“Yes, dear, I
noticed. Now come on.”
“Can I be sick
first?”
“No, Jan. Come on.”
Everyone who
knew Janet called her “Jan.” Everyone
except Dan, who only called her “Jan” when he was perturbed with her.
She got the
message and followed along dutifully, as she had before…on the opposite side of
the path from Dan, and several feet behind him.
It didn’t take Dan long to figure out this path was curving around
toward the main road. Since they were
over two miles from it, Dan nearly swore, but continued on until they reached
it.
Janet
laughed. “Nice work, hubby. You led us back to this nice road. Too bad it isn’t the one where our car is
located.”
Dan said nothing
in retort, just started walking to where the side road intersected the main
road. Janet was less quiet. “Hey, look at the bright side. When we get back on the main road after we
get off it, we won’t have to stop to check this path out.”
“Must you?”
“Yup.”
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