Slowly she dressed in camp clothes, brown shorts, blue top, and tennis shoes. xxx18 Sarah rarely used the internal telephone system. Clem rested on her lap, looking up into her face. What was the next step? Had the county authorities gotten to him? He asked about her breakfast and once satisfied that all was good, he went into brief comments about the fire last night,
“Sarah, you were right about seeing a little fire down in the valley last night. The remaining hours of the night were torture for Sarah. Then a thought crossed, there is no way the law is looking for him this morning unless they came out to apologize. She tried every position in bed, she tried every conceivable mind trick to get to sleep, she read, or tried to read; nothing worked.