Chapter 61: Miss Santer Tattle Tales

Luke was in the middle of making plans for a weekend getaway when Miss Santer knocked on his half-open door.

He motioned her in while finishing up his phone call.

“I need you to find this horse,” Luke was saying into his phone. “I don’t care if there’s thousands of wild horses running around, this is the one I need. I have almost infinite financial resources, so use as many people as are required for the job.”

“All right, though it might take a while,” said the man on the other end, a famous horse wrangler Luke had hired.

“Ideally by this weekend.”

“That’s a tall order, Mister.”

“I know. There’s a bonus in it for you if you can do it.”

After ending the conversation, Luke looked up at Miss Santer, noticing that there was something even more serious about her manner this day.

“I have something to report,” she began, “which will probably not make you happy, but I feel I must bring it to your attention.”

“Okay,” he said, “You’ve got me in suspense…”