I ONt tALK ABOUt to be a ed for it. t a medal. I dont even need to kno t. t a day I dont remember it. Some boys I kno on to sc Austin on to say about t. Didnt like tics. tions in try is a long time. Youre talkin about ttlers. I used to tell em t ted like fisendency to make some people irritable but t seem to knoalkin about. I ties in try sobered some of em up. I did. I read in teac out back in ties to a number of scry. ionnaire about eac and sent in from around try ansions. And t problems talkin in class and runnin in t nature. So t one of t ed up a bunc em back out to ty years later.
ell, t. Because a lot of time ever sort of smile and tell me Im gettin old. t its one of toms. But my feelin about t is t anybody t cant tell t Ive got. Forty years is not a long time neit forty of it from under t aint too late.
ta to a conference in Corpus Ci and I got set next to t talkin about t . I aint even sure .
tly just common people. Common as dirt, as told and s me funny. S I em, but of course ts a in my part of t on, kept on.
Finally told me, said: I dont like try is my granddaugo be able to ion. And I said t any try is goin I dont but o say t not only o sleep. ty mucion.
Ceen flige steps in te o teel door on t t of tungun and opened tepped into t tood leaning against tgun in botening. Breat got up out of a c do of t it in and on to tor and stood listening again. ook off s and stood tor door and do, walking slowly, favoring his wounded leg.
to to topped. t per see er t it an odd oversig fear of an enemy can often blind men to ot least the world.
rap from ank to tudied tance of t from tguns follower sligo cy off.
tol at t. Cepped into t en s. tors use to take bird specimens. t over and to tcgun s and put it in and o till drifting from ter fitted to tood looking do t but teadily t onto t eye seemed intact and Cried to speak from out of o one knee and leaned on tgun and looked at is it? are you trying to tell me?
t.
Can you hear me? Chigurh said.
answer.
Im t Carson ells to kill. Is t ed to know?
c and a pair of arting to pool about his head and he was shivering as if he were cold.
t I didnt to break to rain glass on people in treet. ote stood outlined in t in t t and t tol lying ty back on tgun and stepped past to ted t tood at tening. out and doed ank and tungun and got s and stepped into them up.
t out tal door and doe steps to t his vehicle.
to tation it breaking daylig rain falling. S and paid tip. out and around to trunk and opened it and got t tico and brougo urned and began to struggle out into the rain.
Mama ? I need to get around there.
I kno it o, t three year ago.
It aint been three years.
I used them very words.
Just till I get around there.
In t t cancer, s t even a o go to.
Yes mam.
ere goin to El Paso texas. You know exas?
No mam.
Ss how many, she said.
Yes mam.
t in tared out at t t t some more coffee? she said.
t answer.
You aint speakin, I reckon.
I dont knoo speak about.
ell I dont guess I do either.
ever you all done you done. I dont knoo o run from the law.
e aint runnin from the law, Mama.
You couldnt call on em to hough, could you?
Call on who?
the law.
No. e couldnt.
ts .
ted eetared out ter a
seat. I got cancer, sold the driver.
Carla Jean put t do look at o it. No revelation nor not give myself no credit. Anybody could of told you thing.
ell I askin.
t t table ted. I give myself no credit, s in to do t.
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t tood listening. t coming from tc in one gun in ther.
to topped and listened again. t came from a bare bulb on t on into tchen.
A bare formica and cable in ter of tanding on it. tcor and looked in. tgun in took out a can of orange soda and opened it ood drinking it, listening for anyt migallic click of t ty can on ter and s tor door and o t in an easy c at treet.
After a airs. ood listening at tair musty odor of sickness and for a moment s even be lying tc and into tood reading ttles on ty. t treet beloer ligreetlamps. the morning. Dry.
Cold. Silent. out and doo t the house.
ied onto t sorting time to time some item and studying it in t from tic . eig t concerning t turning to album. Sc t tures of pocket.
t up and pulled tgun alongside c from ter a ook tilted it and pusop backladder up under t on ts and stretc and to sleep.
In tairs and dourned to t to s tain pulled back, ter spraying onto tgun lying on ty a foot away.
doo tce a boe. In topped and looked at t in t door. ood t boable and crossed t over and picked up tood sorting t. in a co it.
of calls. errell County Sment. it back in t t-pocket. t into tc tgun off table and came back and stood wood before. o a cop drawer.
tuffed gun do in t and piled it on to go t.
Moss spent tel on to. el courtyard and ruggled up and sat on tain ts. t table t from a drugstore in too teet time in five days and t on tub and taped fresh gauze over his wounds.
t dressed and called a cab.
anding in front of tel office , got t to make some money? he said.
Yea to make some money.
Moss took five of tore to ted torn bills and put tpocket and looked at Moss in ted.
s your name?
Paul, said the driver.
You got t attitude, Paul. I get you in trouble. I just dont you to leave me some to be left.
All right.
a flas?
Yea a flas.
Let me .
t to the back.
Youre the man, Moss said.
here are we going.
Dohe river road.
I aint pickin nobody up.
ere not pickin anybody up.
tche mirror. No drogas, he said.
No drogas.
ted.
Im goin to pick up a briefcase. It belongs to me. You can look inside if you .
Nothin illegal.
I can look inside.
Yes you can.
I jerkin me around.
No.
I like money but I like stayin out of jail even better.
Im the same way myself, Moss said.
to. I you to park under the bridge, he said.
All right.
Im goin to unscre of t.
tche driver said.
I kno.
t off ts and looked at Moss in took t and laid it in tic lens and across t to t a fees, he said.
ty, talks close gro ly across the lens.
tting in tside up and intact as if someone it tc and picked it up and made aking by t to t t and got in carefully and s t to t. Lets go, he said.
s in the driver said.
Money.
Money?
Money.
tarted t onto the road.
turn ts on, Moss said.
urned ts on.
how much money?
A lot of money. ake to drive me to San Antonio.
t about it. You mean on top of the five hundred.
Yes.
a grand all in.
Everthing.
Yes.
You got it.
t t.
Moss took t and .
if top us.
t stop us, Moss said.
how do you know?
too muc still do I got to deal aint goin to end here.
I .
trust me, Moss said.
I e he driver said. I always did.
hem?
Yeas th.
t in a Rode of to do a paper and climbed laboriously back to buy a gun from a dealer because ification but of tec-9 ra magazines and a box and a o urned t omatic. time you fired it? he said.
I aint never fired it.
Are you sure it fires?
not?
I dont know.
ell I dont either.
After Moss onto tel el pilloood t c across t and o come.
turned and o tel leaving t pillohe ground.
ed in to tub and looked at t looked pretty ugly.
t ed to pull out but . er on t taped t some more of to t of ted tol and to t and called a cab and picked up t case and out and doairs.
a 1978 Ford pickup on Nort title notarized in t title in to tel and c and left, tec-9 under t and t case and ting in truck.
At t Boerne tccruck and looked at een, sixteen. Red hair. how far are you goin? she said.
Can you drive?
Yea aint no stick s is it?
No. Get out and come around.
S and got out of truck and crossed in front of it.
Moss puso t in and put truck in drive and t onto terstate.
how old are you?
Eighteen.
Bulls. are you doin out you knos dangerous to chhike?
Yea.
ook off and put it on t beside him and leaned back and closed his eyes.
Dont go over t, us stopped by tpot full of trouble.
All right.
Im serious. You go over t and Ill set your ass out by the road.
All right.
ried to sleep but . of pain. After a
off t and put it on and looked over at ter.
Can I ask you somethin? she said.
You can ask.
Are you runnin from the law?
Moss eased and looked at at t makes you ask t?
On account of bein stopped by the police.
if I was?
t to just get out up here.
You dont t. You just to know wand.
S of tudied try. If you spent tations. Be no trick at all.
Stle ions?
No. I dont o. Are you hungry?
Im all right.
last.
I dont like for people to start askin me .
All rig last?
I kno-ass from time I got in truck.
Yea t exit. Its supposed to be four miles. And reac mac.
Bell drove slotleguard and got out and closed te and got back in truck and drove across ture and parked at t out and o tank. er and raised a palmful and let it spill again.
ook off and passed t at tic of turning in t grass. A lorundling under . t stood t sloure of a man per buried somet knohing, he said.
ing. o tc to to it.
Did s texas number.
S said it he number.
to tel outside of El Paso. I need for you to tell me somethin, she said.
All right.
Is your word good?
Yes it is.
Even to me?
Id say especially to you.
raffic in tance.
Sheriff?
Yes mam.
If I tell you w no o him.
I can give my no o .
After a while she said: Okay.
tting at ttle plyable t folded up from to a ing on took off t and laid it on table in front of urned and looked torailer c on to? he said.
t up and s te and then he rose and came forward.
You got it?
I got it.
ore t off t to and folded it and put it into pocket. tcs and took out a camouflage-finisepped doo t and s to arted ttle a couple of times and t onto top and turned on ts and sed into second gear and up tting on tires and fisires whining and unspooling clouds of rubbersmoke behind him.