The Man Stalking Me Said Stop Working Alone, and the Kind Vet Was the One Who Let My Tire Down novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Door
He did not run.
He walked up the center aisle at an easy pace, a big sandy man in a tweed jacket, with every head in the room turning to follow him.
I had seen that walk across a cattle yard.
I stepped out from behind the witness table.
"Stop him," I said.
Nobody moved.
The sheriff had half risen from his chair.
He was looking at the doors, and at his deputies on either side of them, and I watched him do a sum in his head.
"Deputy," he said, in a thick voice.
"Hold that door."
The deputy at the left-hand door, the young one, did not move.
He stood with his hands behind his back and his eyes on the ceiling.
Andy reached the doors.
He put one hand on the brass bar and pushed.
The doors opened outward onto the courthouse hall.
Four men in the gray-and-blue uniforms of the Minnesota State Patrol stood in a half circle in the corridor.
Two had their hands on their belts.
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