’ ‘Think about it, Stan,’ Lexi said as she drove down the dirt road. ‘Maybe, if we get this case cleared, Greg will let us stay a day or two. ...ou could do some fishing.’ She chuckled. ‘The only fish I want come out of a box in the freezer,’ Stan grumped. ‘I want to get back to civilization. I hate this wilderness crap!’ ‘James County Fifteen from Operations,’ the radio in Greg Atkinson’s patrol unit crackled as he headed back toward the lake. He and Sergeant Ames had lodged the prisoner in the. Webster seems too formal." Yes, Ma'am - I mean Beth. See ya in two days!"The next time I went to the farm, I stopped at John's to pick up a box of groceries for Beth. He asked me if I'd met Mr. Webster yet and I told him that he was workin' the oil fields down by Lawton.He kind of shook his head and wondered, "Why would he be working all the way down there when there's plenty of new wells goin' in a lot closer by. I guess they must be payin' him a pretty good wage. Oh well, it ain't our. “Yeah, uh, yes, sir,” Wayne stammered, remembering Sara’s advice to call him “sir.” He hated doing that, but Sara had insisted he do it. She said her daddy was still a military man at heart and he put more stock in basic formalities than just about anything else. Wayne could see Dale was just like the jocks in high school only with professional training in murder to boost his sense of superiority. His eyes narrowed as he looked Wayne up and down, inspecting him. Wayne held out his hand.Dale. Janice turned that to her advantage, mobilizing a massive grass roots campaign funded by small donors from around the country that raised nearly as much money as her opponent in response. In an election which saw Republicans take back the Senate and the House enlarged their unruly majority, Janice Rener won reelection in a landslide, winning 63% of the votes cast.Due to her margin of victory in the midst of a nationwide Democratic electoral debacle, speculation began shortly after the elections.