Chapter 16: Blue Fire

Tank carried that .45 from the day he signed for it, and he never let it out of reach — not even in the shower. In the lake he loses it, goes under, comes up empty, goes under once more, and quits. Then he swears about the guns, because a man can complain about guns. The pistol stays under the swearing for years. What gets me is how he hands the smaller loss up to the surface and keeps the real one down.
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