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Wash could visualize his aunt's prune-wrinkled face, now ashy in color rather than the rich mahogany he
remembered it being when she was younger. She would be frowning, trying to get every word just right.
She hated what drugs had done to some of her great-grandchildren, and if she passed word, he knew it
was probably true.



"Who's involved, Auntie?тАЭ Wash asked. тАЬAnd where are they heading?"



"Boy said they's cominтАЩ up the river to Boggy Slough. S'posed to meet somebody there to sell their
shipment. Word was, Wim told Jim, there's somethinтАЩ really important, too, but he couldn't find out what
it was.



"You pass the word, Wash. We needs to catch all them drug pushers and put тАШem under the jailhouse.тАЭ
Her voice was almost gone, now.



"You bet, Auntie. I'll pass the word to the DEA folks. It's not in my jurisdiction, being as I'm just police
chief in Templeton, but they'll do the job. You rest easy. And thank you. Mama would be proud."



He heard a sniff and knew she was remembering the niece she had reared from infancy. Good old
Libby! Her heart was in the right place, every time.



The phone clicked in his ear, and Wash dialed the number he knew too well. тАЬDrug Enforcement
Agency,тАЭ came the clipped response.



Sighing, Wash passed on the information, knowing that the federal people really hadn't much use for
local police. Sure enough, the girl on the phone was just short of rude, but she took down what he said.
What happened now, Wash knew, was up to the agency.
 If he had his way, he'd be waiting by the river a long way downstream from Boggy Slough, for the
information network on the river and in the swamp country was formidable. If Wim Dooley could
overhear something this important, somebody else could overhear the DEA's plans to catch the drug
runners.



You couldn't persuade the narcs of that, though. They seemed to think country people were stupid,
which could be, in the wrong circumstances, a dangerous thing to do.