On Heaven's Hill by Kim Heacox

Author:Kim Heacox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

AN HOUR LATER, Salt walks the beach east of the ferry dock. He reasons that if an uprooted tree—one with a dead wolf chained to it—were to get washed downriver to the ocean and caught in the current, it could end up here along the highest high tide line.

He finds nothing.

The sand is clean save for a few tire tracks that aren’t unusual. People drive down here all the time in their big trucks and ATVs, smashing flowers and bird nests.

Salt remembers making quick work of setting the riverside trap in late November. And then? His best guess: A strong wolf, caught in the trap that was chained to a half-rotten log, must have pulled hard enough to break the log. And when he did, the wolf, still in the trap and chained to the log, must have skidded down the steep embankment (with the log) and into the river. Wrapped up in the chain, he would have drowned while being swept downriver, kept afloat by the log that in time washed up on the beach.

Walking back to his Toyota, limping slightly, Salt encounters the McCall cousins coming his way.

“Did you find it?” Chippy asks excitedly as they draw near.

“Find what?”

“The wolf. The one caught in a trap and chained to a log.”

“Oh, no… I was just taking a walk. Getting some exercise for my bad knee.”

Cap asks. “You work at Derek’s Garage, right?”

“I do.”

“He’s asked me a couple times if I want to work there. I keep telling him no.”

Chippy says, “That’s because you’re too busy running your multinational corporation and sailing your yacht and building your spaceship to Mars.”

“Oh, yeah,” Cap says with a grin. “I forgot about that.”

“And driving that German Mercedes you bought from a Saudi prince.”

“Oh, yeah, that too.”

The McCalls laugh and walk on, as does Salt, going the opposite way. But a minute later, when the cousins are a good distance away, Chippy stops and yells back, “Hey, you’re Salt d’Alene, right?”

Salt turns. “That’s me.”

“Solomon’s dad?”

“Yes.”

“He’s a great kid. If there’s anything we can ever do, let us know, okay?”

Salt nods and waves. “Okay. I will. Thank you.”

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