Sections 26 - 28 Summary

Chee drives his pickup along a sand bottomed cul-de-sac off Moenkopi Wash, making sure he is not being followed, then unrolls his blanket and makes himself comfortable. He examines the fact that two armed men were waiting for him in his trailer. Johnson warned him that the narcotics dealers would be looking for him, and he has not returned Johnson's telephone call.

He reconsiders what he learned from the telephone call to Gaines. Tomorrow night the exchange will be made. Five hundred thousand dollars for two suitcases filled with cocaine. He is beginning to believe the caller was West, but wonders why the payoff is delayed and why tomorrow is different from any other night.

Chee wakes feeling stiff and sore. He assumes the men waiting for him in his trailer will be long gone but he takes no chances and...