The Search by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Bryan was fit to be tied.

For days he and Bryan Too had been scouring central Texas for his sweet Sarah.

They’d visited every hospital, clinic and doctor’s office within two hundred miles in every direction of Salt Mountain.

They’d slept in abandoned motel rooms when they could find one toward the end of every day.

On the nights they couldn’t find one, they slept in Army issue sleeping bags beneath the stars.

Except for one cruel night when a passing line of thunderstorms opened up on them at two in the morning, forcing them to spend the rest of the night soaked and sleeping upright in the Humvee.

Through their ordeal they’d talked to over a hundred people. Each one promised they’d continue to search for Sarah and would notify Bryan immediately if she were found.

Finally, although he didn’t want to, Bryan had to face reality.

Sarah was out there somewhere.

But it wasn’t at any of the area medical facilities.

And finally, against everything inside him that told him to stay out there looking, he admitted defeat.

Bryan Too had come to like Bryan. They’d bonded, as men do when carrying out an important mission together. Through their mission they’d shared childhood experiences and discussed anything and everything, from the meaning of life to why women do the things they do.

But Bryan Too saw no need to continue. He also saw the futility of it all.

So he didn’t argue when Bryan said, “Let’s head back home in the morning. If she were out here we’d have found her by now.

Bryan Too said nothing. He merely nodded his head in agreement. And he let it drop.

But the next morning, after he’d started up the hulking Humvee and plotted his course back to the compound next to Salt Mountain, he turned to Bryan.

“So, where do you go from here?”

“I don’t know. There are already sixty volunteers going door to door in Kerr County, asking everyone they can find whether they’ve seen Sarah.

“I suppose I could join them.

“Or, I could go back to where the dog lost the scent and try to pick up her trail again.

“Do you think they were wrong? That she wasn’t picked up at the roadway after all?”

“I don’t know. I just don’t know. I mean, the easy thing to do would be to just accept the dog handler’s word and look elsewhere.

“But what if the dog handler was wrong? What if the dog just happened to lose her scent again, and by some strange happenstance it just happened to be at the roadway? I mean, the dog had been out there for three days, and the first two days his nose got tired and he lost her scent, although the scent was still there. After he rested and slept he was able to pick it up again.

“What if the same thing happened the third day, and he just happened to be at the roadway when it happened?

“What if her trail went beyond the roadway? That if the handler hadn’t given up, the dog could have

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