Busted Axle Road Chapter 37
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| Time frame | December, 1987 |
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Location
- Spearfish Lake
- TheSpearfish Lake Record-Herald Office
- Heather Sanford's car
- John Pacobel's house
Characters
Summary
Mark starts to feel a little bit guilty about knocking Heather down, and putting her car back into a snowdrift so he drops by to tell Mike about it, tying the dogs up to the parking meters. He notices some papers caught in the sled, which he takes into Mike's office to put in the trash.
Mike contacts Leroy and asks him to check out the location where Heather is stuck.
Mike and Mark go out to the street and Mike takes some photos of the dogs and the sled. Mark heads home, and Mike returns to the office, where he notices the Defenders of Gaea letterhead in the trash.
John finds Heather crying in her car, so he takes her home and patches her up as well as he can, and gives her a meal.
Heather decides to stay the night with the only person in Spearfish Lake that doesn't seem to hate her.
Mike reads the Defenders of Gaea letter and realises that although they are probably getting their money from Jenny, they are not the big organisation they pretend to be.
In order to warn Jenny of the trouble that Heather has caused, Mike decides to write a story about the lawsuit, and starts doing some research on the Defenders. He contacts the Camden Better Business Bureau to find that they consider the Defenders are at best a marginal organisation, and the California Attorney General's office thinks the same.
Mark rings to tell him that his way home is clear of snow, then Mike calls Kirsten to tell her that that he'll be a little late.
Mike takes advantage of the time zones and rings Andy Bairnsfether at work in Los Angeles. He's a former Record-Herald reporter, now in the investigative group at the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and he shares a a few interesting tidbits of information about the Defenders organization with Mike.
This scene continues in the next chapter.
Also Mentioned
- Leroy (a Spearfish Lake police officer)
