If These Walls Could Talk by Dan Walsh

Author:Dan Walsh [Walsh, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bainbridge Press
Published: 2019-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

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The Next Day – Late Evening

Culpepper, GA

Boone pulled into the long driveway leading to the Big House. It had been a long day, spent driving back from Ashburn. Of course, Rufus was upset with him for cutting out early. The rest of the Culpepper men were still there doing their level best to harass, heckle and cause all manner of trouble for the troublemaking Yankee college kids. Truth be told, Boone would have much rather stayed with them.

But this thing with Mason was too hot a potato to hold on to any longer, and it wasn't the kind of thing he could tell Daddy about over the phone. He had called to let him know that he had taken care of the errand he'd been given with Aunt Betsy and had met up with the guys in Ashburn. But that something pretty serious had come up, and he was cutting his trip short. He'd be heading for home first thing this morning.

Daddy, of course, wanted to hear more detail. "I'll tell you when I see you. Has to do with Mason," was all Boone had said.

He pulled his pickup as close to the front porch as he dared, shut it down and got out. Daddy must've heard him coming. The front door opened before Boone had cleared the steps.

"Thought it was you," Daddy said. The screen door slapped behind him.

"You can have a seat out here, if you want to talk right away," Boone said. "I'll be back out directly. I've had to use the john for the last sixty miles."

"Well, don't keep me waiting out here long."

"I won't."

Boone did what he had to, grabbed himself a cold glass of tea from the icebox and joined Daddy on the porch.

"You bring me one?" Daddy was pointing at Boone's iced tea.

"Here." Boone handed him his, hurried back to fetch another. Changed his mind when he opened the icebox and grabbed a cold beer instead.

Back on the porch, Daddy started off before Boone had even taken his seat. "Now, what's all this about Mason? And why would he have anything to do with you cutting your trip short in Mississippi?"

Boone took a nice strong pull from the beer. "Well, as it turns out, he had everything to do with my trip getting cut short. You're not going to believe what happened when I tell you. I can still hardly believe it myself. I know you like to always say how smart Mason is, and how he's the one with the superior intellect, and I'm the one with all the ambition and drive." Which to Boone was just his father's way of implying Boone was the stupid one.

"But after you hear what I'm about to tell you, Daddy I think you're gonna have to revise your very high opinion of Mason and your much lower opinion of me."

"Boone, whatever are you talking about, son? Would you just stop with the riddles and tell me what happened?"

"Okay, I'll get right to it then. Guess who I found in Ashburn when I got there? Well, actually it was George Caldwell who found him first.

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