Chapter 21: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP714

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Episode GP714 Description

On a visit to Redwine, Evan learns the Army has a longstanding claim to the Emmett place.

GP714 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapter 21 29:49 minutes

Chapter 21

Saturday Afternoon

Arthur Redwine Farmhouse

There would be a reckoning with Shackleton, Evan was sure of it. But he didn’t want to confront the banker until he had as much information as he could get elsewhere, particularly about the will and the land-title complications. The person who might know the most, if he could express it coherently, would be Arthur Redwine.

As Edie had suggested, Evan pulled into a gas station off Route P to ask directions to Redwine’s place. Evan didn’t recall which brand the station had sold before, but a new sign read ZipGas. He suspected his boss had made another potentially profitable investment as a reseller of surplus fuel from the big operators. But the prices here were no bargain.

The kid who worked the station was seated behind a double pane of Plexiglas with a pass-through dip for exchanging payments and receipts. He was underage, much too young not to be in school. But it was the weekend, so he was probably filling in for somebody. He looked forlorn and freezing, dressed only in a sweatshirt hoodie with a long woolen scarf wrapped several times around his neck and a stocking cap pulled down over his ears. He said he didn’t know of the Redwine place, but he punched the rural route address Evan gave him into his phone, and then he scrolled through the satellite view of Google Maps to zero in on the five ponds on the property. Evan could have done that himself, but he hadn’t guessed that entering a postal route number would result in a hit on the geographic location. The kid held his phone up to the glass so Evan could see, but it was hard to read in the glare. Evan took out his own phone and traced the same search, with the same successful result. He grinned and tipped the kid five bucks, not something he’d normally do, but in recognition of a colleague. He wondered whether the boy was a relative of the Zeds, or even one of Zip’s kids.

Learning the biz from the ground up.

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