Page 279 of Rangers Last Promise

“Deputy outside my door.”

Tate reaches for his radio.

Kane continues.

“He’s sleeping.”

Tate’s face darkens.

“He’d better not be.”

“I’m joking, Sheriff.”

“This isn’t funny.”

“It was a little funny.”

Doc takes the phone from me.

“You’re supposed to be unconscious.”

“I’ve always been a disappointment.”

“You know Arthur Harlan.”

Silence.

That tells us everything.

“Kane.”

“Yes.”

“He’s the Colonel?”

“Yes.”

The single word ends fifteen years of uncertainty.

Arthur Harlan.

A decorated officer.

A retired general.

A man whose private company still holds federal contracts.

The man behind Site Seventeen.

The man who ordered twenty-three executions.

The man who sent Grant’s team into an ambush.

Doc looks toward the recovered containers.

“Why is he coming to Eagle River?”

“To clean up Vance’s mess.”