Outcast In Gray by M Glenn Graves

Author:M Glenn Graves [Graves, M Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641197656
Publisher: City Lights Press
Published: 2016-03-23T22:00:00+00:00

35

“He’ll be okay in a few hours,” the voice from the house porch spoke when we reached Sam and the Jeep.

I checked him for a pulse. His heart was thumping away.

The person who had spoken to us approached. Tall with long black hair, she appeared to be in her early thirties. She was young looking, but had the look of experience about her. It was the same woman I had encountered a day or so ago when I was hiking behind Starnes’ place. She was the woman with the very large dogs.

“He approached me at a full gallop in the woods and I couldn’t tell if he was going to attack. I shot him with a tranquilizer just to be safe. He’ll be drowsy for the rest of the day, but nothing you should worry over.”

“Was he approaching you angrily?” I asked knowing the answer already.

“Yes, as a matter of fact he did. He really left me no choice but to disarm him and protect us.”

“Us?” I said.

“I was with my dogs.”

She nodded in the direction of her kennels. I turned to look. The two front cages each had a massive dog like the ones I had encountered with this same woman a couple of days ago. The dogs in the cages looked even larger than they looked when I first saw them on the trail.

“The same dogs that were with you when we met the other day?” I said.

“We’ve met?” she looked puzzled.

“Yes, Sam, Dog, and I were hiking over in the Shelton-Laurel area when we first met you.”

“I’m sorry. I have no recollection of any such meeting.”

“Well, it was sort of a non-descript kind of running into someone over there on one of the trails. Perhaps you ran into more than one person with dogs that day,” I was trying to be polite.

“Sorry. I have no memory of anything like that.”

“It doesn’t matter. Just glad Sam didn’t attack you and eat you alive,” I said.

“I always carry my tranquilizer gun. One never knows who they will run into.”

“Who, indeed,” I said.

She turned and walked briskly back to her house without offering to help put Sam in the back of the Jeep. Rosey grabbed Sam’s back paws while I wielded his front ones. We laid him gently next to Dog who hadn’t moved from her earlier position. I checked Sam’s pulse once more. Steady. His eyes were glazed over but he was still with us.

“Let’s go before I decide to shoot her with my tranquilizer gun,” I said.

“You don’t have a tranquilizer gun,” Starnes said.

“I don’t usually call it that, but it has a tranquilizing effect on my targets. I want to get Sam back to your place and be certain he’s okay.”

“Not a problem. I don’t think our person of interest is overly excited about continuing any conversation with us at the moment,” Starnes said.

A mile or so down the road towards Athens, we discussed our strange encounter with the tall woman.

“Odd conversation,” Starnes said.

“Weird,” I said.

“Are you sure she’s the same woman you met earlier behind my house?”

“Positive.

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