The Dinosaur Hunter by Homer Hickam

Author:Homer Hickam [Hickam, Homer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781250001962
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 2010-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

18

After another morning of doing our best to knock off the top of old Blackie Butte, we headed for town. Jeanette drove Bob, Amelia sat beside her, and Ray and I rode in the back. Laura drove their truck with Pick sitting beside her, Tanya and the Marsh brothers behind to hunker down from the wind and dust. I pondered the sky as we careened down the road to Jericho. It was crystal clear. Not even a wisp of a cloud in it. I felt more foreboding. Montana was being entirely too nice to us. What was she up to, I wondered.

Once we were in town, I checked in at the Tellman’s Motel, which was owned by Mori and Titus Philips, Mori being a Tellman. Mori met me in the tiny office that was actually a back room of her house with a separate door. The sign on the door said IF YOU WANT A ROOM, SORRY WE’RE ALL FILLED UP PLEASE HAVE A NICE DAY. It was too impolite in Fillmore County to just say no VACANCY.

“You look like you need a shower, Mike,” Mori said while I filled out the cards for the rooms. “Jeanette rationing water at the Square C these days?”

Mori was a fine young woman who made a habit of winning the walleye tournaments held annually on the lake. Nearly all Fillmore County women hunt and fish and look good doing it and Mori was decidedly no exception. She had big brown expressive eyes that just looked inside a man, right down to his soul. I was kind of hiding my soul these days so I kept my head down and focused on the card I was filling out. I did answer her, though. “Been dinosaur digging these past weeks. Severe lack of showers out in the BLM.”

Of course, she already knew that and said, “Yeah, I was just teasing ya. I heard that Ted Brescoe went out there and caused a big stink. What are you going to do about that?”

I took the three keys she had placed on the counter. “Nothing for me to do,” I told her. “I’ll leave that to Jeanette and the dinosaur hunters.”

“We all got a big laugh about it here in town,” she said. “There’s nobody more puffed up than Ted. When he doesn’t get his way, his lower lip starts to tremble, then he cries. Of course, I’m remembering him that way from grade school.”

That was another thing about the county. Most of the folks out there of the same age had gone to school together from the first grade through high school. Ted Brescoe apparently had been a whiny brat. This did not surprise me.

I asked Mori about Titus and the children, then picked out a room and went in and took a shower. Refreshed and wearing clean clothes I’d brought with me—jeans, plaid shirt, boots, and my town cowboy hat—I sought out Laura to give her a key to one of the rooms. I found

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