Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The Restless Wind
Chapter 2. Tic Tac Toe About Town
Chapter 3. A Criminal History
Chapter 4. Deals, Crooked Deals
Chapter 5. Calling All Cars - Police Alert
Chapter 6. Crime Everywhere
Chapter 7. Cooche Girl
Chapter 8. Dragnet Roundup
Chapter 9. Vicious Revenge
Chapter 10. Legal Restitution
Chapter 11. Trial Days
Chapter 12. Freedom
Chapter 13. The Breeze of the Day
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Chapter 1. The Restless Wind
The warm moist air was still. It hung over the hot earth. Summer was sultry. A misty haze hung still in low places as fog trapped there. Then from a distance, a wind blew over the area pushing the air along. It rustled blades of grass, shrub leaves and the limbs on trees. Dust kicked up on bare patches of the soil. The breeze moved along for several country miles. It passed over fields of cotton, corn, milo, sugarcane, and beans. Cows standing grazing in green grassy pastures felt the moving air hit their noses, faces, and leathery bodies. The air stirred over a lake causing ripple waves to appear on the otherwise still surface. Blades of grass and planted crops in fields waved back and forth as the moving air pushed them into a springy motion. Flying birds drifted upwards in the cascading currents. Winds moved into and out of farmer’s sheds and barns refreshing the stale stagnated air trapped inside. In the blue sky, white puffy clouds glided by. The yellow sun beamed down warming all below. This golden sunshine caressed each bright daylight hour with a natural blessed brilliance. There was something supernatural and inexpressible about the beauty of sunlight. The warm balmy wind was driven by uneven heating of the earth. It crossed fields in the nearby countryside farm fields, came into the outskirts of the city, flowed along paved streets, filled open lots an d yards, and encircled solid buildings fixed in place. Flowers, bushes, tree limbs swayed back and forth. Open windows had their curtains swished about inside various buildings. It was as if the city was breathing in the warn summer’s daytime air. Day turned into night. It became cooler. In the dark sky millions of silvery stars twinkled and the lustrous moon passed overhead leaving light and shadows upon the ground. In the city and out in the country the night slowed the activities of all creatures. Night dragged on. The earth rotated bringing the yellow orange flash of dawn into the eastern sky. Golden rays of light streaked from the horizon. Morning came with refreshing blasts of light that covered everything. The day’s activities moved here and there as life had purposeful duties to perform. Breezy winds passed over all that was there outside.