He rolled onto his back and listened to the birds chattering in the trees. It was nice to be back in the mountains, though he was still concerned about Walt. Once he’d spent a lot of time camping and hiking, sometimes by himself and other times with the family, but it had been a few years since then. When he’d worked in Texas, his time off had been spent in Schuyler—partly to visit the family and partly to gauge how close Walt might be getting to retirement. At times he’d felt like a vulture. It might have been different if he hadn’t grown up being told about the deal that Grandpa and Uncle Mitch had made. Grandpa is going to retire when you’re out of college and you’ll own the Boxing N. It was part of the weaving of his life. Yet when the time came, Grandpa said, “Maybe next fall.” Year after year it was the same story. His whole family agreed that the summer he’d worked with Walt had been an unmitigated disaster. Grandma Evelyn had tried to intervene, without success.
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