Deputy PorterChapter 130
It turned into a whirlwind. I stopped the car for gas, and Tom went to a quiet spot several paces from the SUV. He talked into the cell phone for a long time. Well past the time it took to fill the SUV's gas tank and the axillary tank as well. The receipt show $123 so I knew he had been a while. I got back into the car to wait for him. It took him at least ten more minutes to finish the call. A lot of the time he was on hold or listening to the other party talk. It took him so long to...