She knew the other two boys; they had both dropped out of high school in their junior year. Seth was a skinny lanky boy who always hung around with th... other boy, Kurt. Kurt was born a bully. He was the bully for every grade since kindergarten. He wasn't particular strong or big or tall, he was just obnoxious and like a pit bull, he would just keep fighting.Devon and the two other boys all looked at the car, and then they mostly stared at Jordan. At one time or another they all fantasized about. “Watch your step,” he said over his shoulder.Behind him, Janie crept down from Will’s office like a child in a ghost story.“Whatcha- woah. Is that a trap door?” Tonya’s voice asked from the office above.“Yes,” Janie said.“Can I come?’ Tonya asked.“You may want to put some clothes on first,” Janie replied.“Pfft. Naw,” Tonya said. “I bet it’s nice and cool down there.”“It is,” Caine called up. “It’s also full of broken glass and rusty nails.”“I’ll put some shoes on,” Tonya said. Her footsteps. I approached the bartender and asked if the Baxter brothers lived there, and if so, where they might be. At first the barkeep was of the attitude ‘who wants to know?’, but paled as he looked at my badge and checked out how I wore my guns. Deciding he didn’t need the kind of trouble I represented, he allowed as how they did in fact rent a room there, and yes, they were presently in residence… Gathering my witnesses together, we went up to the room the barman had indicated. I knocked politely on. He had dabbled in firearms briefly many years ago and he recognized this beast as a wide bore, Belgium made elephant gun that safari hunters would use to catch big game ... really BIG game! This was before the advent of today’s high powered, high velocity, armor piercing weapons now available for the same task.Mrs Clusky could tell Jared looked concerned so quickly added, “Don’t worry none. The thing ain’t loaded and hasn’t fired a shot for nigh on a hundred years now. And I reckon it’d blow us.