Chapter 3 Summary

Arriving in the town of Encantada, Cole and Rawlins are reunited with Jimmy Blevins. Blevins has been arrested and charged with murder. The captain has used force to compel Blevins to admit to the charges for his arrest and seeks to do the same with Lacey Rawlins. Rawlins is beaten while Cole is discovering from young Jimmy Blevins that Blevins had identified Cole and Rawlins as co-conspirators in the horse theft. The three men are manacled and placed into the back of a pick-up truck. They are en-route to the Mexican prison in Saltillo. After many hours in the truck, they are pulled off into a deserted area. The captain and another man take Jimmy Blevins into the tree line and a couple of shots are heard. The two older men return without Blevins. Cole and Rawlins know that young Jimmy Blevins has...