Hagan 3 Zach's Law by Hooper Kay

Author:Hooper, Kay [Kay, Hooper,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:43:36.408000+00:00

Six

Teddy slept for most of the day, and Zach knew it was the best thing for her after being wounded. He had unrolled the sleeping bag inside their hollowed-out resting place and tucked her within it before doing anything else. Her eyes opened drowsily from time to time, but once she saw him near, she would relax into sleep again.

Zach kept busy. He stowed all their supplies near the sleeping bag and then used sticks and brush to narrow the opening of their cavelet; they were down-wind of the house, and he had hopes of being able to build a fire later if he could hide the light of it from the house.

He watched the house throughout the afternoon. When Ryan's men returned and quickly found the cabin, Zach felt somewhat apprehensive. He had been right, though, because the men made no effort to comb the surrounding area and promptly returned to the main house.

Teddy was deeply asleep, so Zach left the cavelet late in the afternoon to rig a few early-warning devices around the perimeter. He wasn't overly concerned that Ryan and his men would come looking, but even though Zach had never been a Boy Scout, he fully appreciated the virtue of always being prepared for the unexpected.

If he had been another kind of man, Zach would have taken Teddy and left the area, summoning help or at least a relief to take over his job. But it was against his very nature to leave a job unfinished, particularly when in doing so, he would be asking another man to face a danger he himself chose to avoid. He couldn't do that. He had deliberately lied to his friends in order to make certain they wouldn't get involved in another of Hagen's infamous assignments, and he wasn't about to ask anyone else to do so. And there was still a chance he could pull this off. Hagen had promised—whatever that was worth—that he could have a squad of federal marshals up here within an hour to arrest the gang once Zach obtained proof that the stolen artwork was at the house. He had that proof, in the form of photos and recordings, but nothing specifically linked Ryan to the thefts and resales.

Zach wondered if Hagen had realized he would eventually discover Ryan's presence and be forced to alter the Initial plan. Of course he had known, and probably planned to tell Zach when he called to summon the marshals. It had to be Ryan the federal man was really after, and far better to catch the criminal in the act of trading stolen artwork for | illegal guns than merely in possession of the art.

And there was the rest of the mess. In order to arrest the men who would receive the artwork in exchange for guns, it would be necessary to allow the shipment to leave as planned, and to trace it to its delivery point. They knew where the guns were being stored and where they'd

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