Meanwhile, another dozen workers were mining and cooking limestone, making the cement clinker, and then working it up into our mortar powder. Once the...tiles were fired, they would be carried to the site of the wall. At the wall site, another crew of four was busy digging out the soil, digging down at least three feet to avoid as much frost heave as possible.For the protection of the flocks to come and the crops, I'd decided that the wall would need to be between seven and eight feet high, built. ”Dan turned to Deputy Bright Feather, and asked, “Have you actually taken my client’s fingerprints and compared them?”“No.”“Then don’t you think that might be a good idea? Again, if they’re a match you’ve an open and shut case, but if they don’t match, then it’d be hard for the killer or the drug dealer to have been my client.”The Assistant DA looked at the two deputies, and started screaming. That answer was so obvious he felt stupid, and he did not like to feel stupid. More importantly, he. I mistimed by about three seconds and instead of going off in front of the mine it hit the ground before exploding. The bullets, most of them anyway, did fire, slinging lead in all directions. Two riders and their horses went down and there were a couple of screams from the mine.I yelled out. “I got a bunch more of these and I’m dug in pretty good. You boys stick your nose out of that mine and I’ll blow it off, you hear me?”There was a bunch of cussin’ so I waited until it died down and tossed. Chapter 19I feel instantly lighter as I walk into Lauren’s apartment and can smell the now-familiar scent of my girlfriend. I still have a knot in my stomach at the thought of what Jackie and Maddy could be talking about, but right now I just want to focus on something other than Ellison.As soon as I come into the living room, all thoughts of Ellison and Olivia fly out of my head the moment I see Lauren.“Welcome home, honey. Drink?” she asks.But I’m still staring at her outfit and can’t seem to.