Son of Fletch

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Mister Fletcher?”

In the hard rain, Fletch had stopped the Jeep at the roadblock on the narrow county road. It was raining so hard he and Carrie had almost failed to see the sputtering warning flares as they came down the twisting, rock-walled road through the gap.

When the Jeep was stopped in front of the two county police cars parked as a wedge facing them, their headlights lit, a great bulk of a man wearing a yellow slicker, dark, wide-brimmed hat lumbered toward them. He was lit by the Jeep’s headlights but more backlit by the high beams of the police cars.

“Ha!” Carrie had said. “Fletch, I told you not to leave your popcorn bucket on the floor of the movie theater! They’re out lookin’ for you, now they’ve cotched you, and they’ll put you under the jailhouse for sure.”

“Who is that?” Fletch asked.

The rain pounding on the canvas roof of the Jeep made them speak loudly.

“Rondy,” Carrie answered. “You know him. His uncle is Biggie Wilson. You been huntin’ with him, that time you all treed the Carter boy ‘cause he has the natural smell of possum.”

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