The Ghostway

By Tony Hillerman

Old Joseph Joe sees all of it. strangers spill blood on the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. the opposite drives off into the dry lands of the large Reservation, yet now not earlier than he exhibits the outdated Navajo a photograph of the fellow he seeks.

This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee must set him off on an odyssey that strikes from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an historic therapeutic rite the place dying is the healing, and into the darkish middle of homicide and revenge.

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It opened outward, as trailer doorways open to preserve inside of area, not more than six inches, after which the wind driven it close back. Chee stood a second, it, considering what Grayson used to be doing and eventually knowing. Grayson used to be taking part in it secure, as a safe witness should be anticipated to do. He opened the door and stepped in. Grayson was once sitting in the back of the desk, his again opposed to the wall, interpreting Chee. Chee close the door and stood opposed to it, having fun with the heat and letting Grayson see his arms have been empty. “You chanced on whose physique? ” Grayson stated. “Where? What occurred? ” Grayson s palms have been out of sight underneath the desk. could he have a weapon? could a secure witness be allowed to have a gun? maybe even be inspired to maintain one? Why no longer? “Not faraway from his hogan,” Chee acknowledged. “Somebody had shot him. ” Grayson’s face registered one of those dismay. He appeared a bit older than Chee had remembered, a bit extra drained. possibly it used to be the factitious mild. much more likely it used to be Chee’s temper. The nook of his mouth pulled again at the beginning of 1 of these wry clicks of sympathy or shock or sorrow, yet Grayson stopped it. He introduced his arms out from below the desk, rubbed his face with the suitable one. The left one lay at the desk, limp and empty. “Why could somebody are looking to kill that previous guy? ” Grayson stated. “Your uncle,” Chee acknowledged. Grayson stared at him. “We be aware of who you are,” Chee stated. “It saves time if we get that out of ways. You’re Leroy Gorman. You’re within the division of Justice Witness safety software lower than the identify of Grayson. You’re dwelling the following lower than the Grayson identify until eventually it’s time to return to la to testify in federal court docket. ” the fellow who was once Leroy Gorman, older brother of Albert Gorman, nephew of Ashie Begay, stared at Chee, his expression clean. And bleak. And Chee notion, what's his actual identify? His battle identify? The identify his maternal uncle may have given him, privately and secretly whilst he was once a baby, the identify he may have whispered during the masks on the Yeibichi ceremonial the place he replaced from boy to guy? The identify that may label his actual id, that not anyone could recognize other than these closest to him, what used to be that? This l. a. Navajo doesn’t have a conflict identify, Chee suggestion, simply because he doesn’t have a relatives. He isn’t Dinee. He felt pity for Leroy Gorman. a part of it used to be fatigue, and a part of it used to be pity for himself. “So a lot for the goddam promises,” Leroy Gorman stated. “Nobody is aware yet one man within the Prosecutor’s workplace and your FBI dad or mum angel. That’s what they inform you. not anyone else. no longer the neighborhood fuzz. now not not anyone, so there’s no method it could possibly leak. ” He rapped his hand sharply at the Formica tabletop. “Who’d they inform? they've got whatever approximately it on television? entrance web page of the days? at the radio? ” “They didn’t inform anyone so far as I know,” Chee stated. “The postcard you wrote gave you away. the only you despatched for your brother. ” “I didn’t write any postcard,” Gorman acknowledged. “Let me see your camera,” Chee acknowledged. “Camera? ” Gorman regarded stunned. He stood, opened the overhead cupboard at the back of him, and extracted a digicam from its contents.

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