Lone Star Page #4

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-Let's make it once a week for a while.

-Yes, sir.

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I sprint the last quarter mile.

You don't have to keep up.

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Appreciate it, sir.

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Guy cracks walnuts with his a**hole.

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You get the feeling

he doesn't want to be here?

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Sam the Man.

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Hey, Ben. Thanks for coming down.

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So, how's business?

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Business is booming.

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Got your drugs, got your illegals.

294

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Had a shooting the other night

at O's place. Soldier got ventilated.

295

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I hear they're closing Fort McKenzie.

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It'll pull a lot of jobs out of this county.

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We'll have folks swimming over to Mexico

to work in the sweat shops.

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Is that the word on our boy?

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This is Skinny.

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Skinny?

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When we find a body, it's Skinny or Stinky.

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Depends on how much meat's left

on the bones.

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That's a nice job.

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''A male Caucasian...

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''...40 to 60 years old...

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''...5 foot 9...

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''...5 foot 1 1.

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''Chewed tobacco.''

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Then we'll get the dental records

and personal effects.

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It's Charlie Wade.

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That badge....

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Didn't come out of a cereal box.

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You know the popular version

of how he left town.

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Everybody on the border knows that story.

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You got a cause of death?

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Skull was intact.

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No signs of trauma on what we found.

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Not much to go on.

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So, he could have gone out to the post,

just hopped the fence...

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...dug into the dirt on the rifle range...

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...and had a heart attack.

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You remember what old Buddy carried

for a side arm?

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Colt Peacemaker.

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.45.

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He swore by it.

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What?

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I was just wondering.

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Is Buddy on your short list?

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If it were some poor imajadero/i

who swam across, got lost in the brush...

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...and starved out there

it wouldn't go much further, but...

331

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...this is a once prominent citizen

who disappeared.

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You've got to investigate.

There's no question about it.

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I'll keep names out of it until we get

some answers or hit a dead end.

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You know how the press is when they get

ahold of a murder story, even 40 years old.

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Yeah, yeah. They can do a number on you.

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I remember...

337

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...Charlie Wade come

to my father's hardware store once.

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I was just a little boy.

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I'd heard stories

about how he shot this one...

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...how he shot that one.

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The man winked at me.

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I peed my pants.

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Winked at me.

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We have the fight against the Spanish,

a bloody conflict for dozens of years...

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...till they are finally defeated in 1821...

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...and Mexican independence is declared.

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Anglo settlers are invited

to colonize the area.

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By the time they begin the movement

against Santa Anna...

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...they outnumber the Mexicans here

by four to one.

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The war between Mexico

and the anglo forces ends...

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...in 1836...

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...with the formation

of the Texas republic. Texas...

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...joins the United States...

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...as a state where slavery

is legal in 1845...

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...after the so-called Mexican War,

then secedes to join...

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...the Confederacy in 1861.

The Confederacy is beaten...

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...and the Reformation period here

is marked by range wars...

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...and race wars and all this...

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...paralleled by the constant battles...

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...between the Mexican

and anglo settlers...

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...and the various Indian nations.

What are we seeing here, Chet?

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Everybody's killing everybody else?

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I always wondered what you mayors do...

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...when you're not cutting ribbons.

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Sam!

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Partner.

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You caught me playing hooky.

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Floating around out here,

playing hell with them bass.

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Sounds great! Where do I sign up?

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You been by your old place lately?

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No.

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New people painted it some awful color.

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We found a body out

by Fort McKenzie yesterday.

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It'd been there a long time.

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Was it Davy Crockett or Jim Bowie?

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You recall if Charlie Wade was a Mason?

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Charlie?

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I believe he used to go for Lodge meetings

over to Laredo.

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