" So you're here on business." Yes sir. We'd be headed home today. Successful. Tennessee money is good money, too." I paused. "Now why did one or two ...f your deputies see a reason to come knock on my door? I thought that was a pretty nice hotel. Use the chain all over the country. They're seldom high-crime areas."Sheriff Garber's head sagged. "They got a phone call. Suspicious activity. Old guy with a young girl hanging' on 'im. He put his hands around 'er waist ... Citizen was sure that there. The reason forJason's extended walk was on the corner of Eagle Road and State Street:Evelyn's Bridal and Dress Boutique. A normal person would take about 15seconds to walk past Evelyn's but Jason didn't consider himself to be anormal person because as long as he could remember he wanted to be a girl.There was nothing more thrilling to a girl than getting married and Jasonloved to linger near the store and watch girls with their mothers andgirlfriends enter and exit the store. They always seemed. ”Mike comes into the house thru the backdoor as usual. He hears the water in the shower. “Hey babe, I’m here,” Mike yells out. Then the doorbell rings. Mike goes to the door. Nancy and Hale are there and Mike asks them to come in.“Please make yourself comfortable guys, Christy is in the shower, and she doesn’t know we have guests. Hale says, “Oh really!?” Nancy says, “We can come back.” Mike say, It’s OK, Christy loves company, hold on. Mike goes to the bath, “babe are you going to join me?”,. The gunfire doubly alerted him to our presence, and the red ball of the flare marked our position clearly. He waved and hauled the wheel around to point the nose at the bank were we were anxiously waiting.Then he saw the flare wasn’t gaining any altitude and he apparently also noticed it was dead on target for his patrol craft. He watched as the flare zoomed closer and closer. At the last second, he dove for the bottom of the wheelhouse to avoid being struck. The flare cleared the boat house by.