John Dalmas Yngling 2 The Bavarian Gate

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.Now that Fritzi was home, Mary left the talking to him.Macurdywondered if it was the custom in Germany that the man of the house did thetalking to male guests.When they'd finished eating, Fritzi got down tobusiness."One question I got to ask.I should have asked when we talked in my office.Do you get drunk sometimes?""No sir.Never.""Good.Earl asked Lars this morning, and Lars said he didn't think so.Atleast you never went to town."Briefly they talked about the deputy job, and Macurdy agreed to take it.Assoon as Fritzi heard from Washington County, hopefully the next day, thehearing could be held.After that he'd begin his training, on probation.Meanwhile he was to find a place to live, and move in.One of Fritzi'ssisters-in-law wasfile:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Deskt.,%20John%20-%202%20-%20The%20Bavarian%20Gate.html (40 of 452)3/12/2004 11:18:07 PMfile:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Desktop/New%20Folder/Dalmas,%20John%20-%202%20-%20The%20Bavarian%20Gate.html looking for a boarder.Fritzi closed the conversation then: "I'm sorry, but I got to take my pillsand go to bed.I hurt like hell.Be at my office at one." They got up from thetable, and the last thing anyone said to Macurdy, except goodbye, came fromKlara.No one interpreted for him, but Mary blushed brightly.Walking back to his room in the Nehtaka Hotel, he wondered what the old womanhad said.Something about him, he was sure.Whatever it was, he had somethingto think about, something that shook him, because he was strongly attracted toMaryPreuss.She wasn't beautiful like Varia, or sexy like Melody, but there it wasas close to love at first sight, he admitted to himself, as he was likely toexperience.And it troubled him, worried him, because so far he'd had no luckwith love.Oractually he had, up to a point.Varia had been a wonderful wife,for the weeks they'd been together, but he'd lost her.And Melody had lovedhim passionately, until she'd drowned.And there was his life expectancy to consider.And Mary's age: Fritzi hadmentioned her high school graduation as having been that spring; she was asyoung as she looked.But in a dozen or so years she'd probably look older thanhe would.Maybe, he told himself, he was making a mistake, staying in Nehtaka.Maybe heshould go somewhere else.But he knew he wouldn't.He'd stay and see whatfile:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Deskt.,%20John%20-%202%20-%20ThePage 19ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html%20Bavarian%20Gate.html (41 of 452)3/12/2004 11:18:07 PMfile:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Desktop/New%20Folder/Dalmas,%20John%20-%202%20-%20The%20Bavarian%20Gate.html developed.6A Strange CourtshipDepositions by Fritzi, Axel, and several of the jacks who'd witnessed thedeath of Patsy Hannigan, all supported Macurdy's testimony.Not that there'dbeen any doubt, but now the law was satisfied.No charges were filed againsthim, and for a few days he was a local celebrity.It would have been talkedabout more, had it not been for the giant Cedar River Fire, busily devouringsome quarter million acres of prime timber.The last embers had hardly cooled before salvage logging began, with crews atfirst living in tent camps.Macurdy didn't envy them.On Saturdays they cameto town telling of work clothes hopelessly blackened from charred bark, and ofclouds of ash that rose each time a tree was felled.It was, they swore, theworst kind of logging in the world, even worse than logging blowdown.Meanwhile Macurdy was discovering there was more to learn than he'danticipated.Each day he went with, or stayed in the office with Fritzi or one of hisdeputies, learning by watching and doing.And each day he spent at least acouple of hours reading manuals and other books, while from time to time,Fritzi grilled him, the questions mostly beginning: "What do you do if.?"file:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Deskt.,%20John%20-%202%20-%20The%20Bavarian%20Gate.html (42 of 452)3/12/2004 11:18:07 PMfile:///D|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Desktop/New%20Folder/Dalmas,%20John%20-%202%20-%20The%20Bavarian%20Gate.htmlHe hardly had time to think about Mary, let alone talk with her, until, in histhird week on the county payroll, he went with Deputy Lute Halvoy in the paddywagon to the Moose Hall, where a brawl was reported.He'd never seen anythinglike it.In the lot next door, a dozen or so loggers were punching, grappling,and rolling around grunting and swearing on the ground, while twice that manywere cheering them on.Halvoy blew his whistle, but no one paid any attentionat all, so he drew his nightstick and waded in, Macurdy a stride behind and toone side, whacking men on arms, shoulders, backs, to get their attention.They did.Someone turned and punched Macurdy flush on the nose.It was thewrong thing to do [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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