Angel saves the day.

Angel couldn't keep up with the car, but when she got to the edge of
town she spotted the car at the B and B, motel. She sniffed the car
real good and tried to look in the window of the motel, but the drapes
were closed. She could smell that Linc had been taken in there. She
went down to the Sheriff's office, and waited by the door. When
someone came out, she darted inside. A woman deputy, called Lucy,
saw her, and took her into the Sheriff. Angel went over to him and
patted his leg. The Sheriff looked at her and asked, "where is Linc"?
She started for the door, then turned back and looked at him. Came
back over, then went back to the door and looked back again. The
Sheriff told the deputy that there is something wrong here. She
wouldn't be here with out Linc, and wanting me to follow her. Told the
deputy to take her out and follow her and see what she does. As they
went back out thru the outside office, one of the lawyers kicked at
her and said, " get that damn dog out of here.". Sheriff heard this
and said," Whoa! Whoa!, Whoa! Better knock that stuff off or I'll
have you tossed in the lock up with the rest of the scum.
Outside, Angel looked at the deputy as if to say, now what? The
deputy said, "Go find Linc", and Angel started off down the street at
a trot. Deputy almost had to run to keep up with her. Angel stopped
at the motel unit where Linc was and pawed at the door. The deputy
called her to her and they went to the managers office. The deputy
asked the manager who was in that unit and was told the two men were
part of the team to dig out the Chinese men from the cave in. Deputy
took Angel back to the Sheriff's office and went in the back door and
told the Sheriff that Angel seemed to think Linc was in a unit at the
B and B motel. The unit rented by more Chinese. They may have
kidnapped Linc. Sheriff started cussing a blue streak again. Just
then the door opened and six deputies from Tonopah's Sheriff's
office came in. The Sheriff had called them for some reinforcements,
and they had arrived just in time. The Sheriff told them all that had
happened and they were ready to do whatever they could. He told them
about the men at the motel that were a part of the team, but were not
arrested with the rest of them because they were at a different motel.
He wanted them arrested, and he thought they may have a person there
with them that they had kidnapped. They took off, Deputy Lucy and
Angel followed after them.
Two of the deputies went around to the back of the motel and then one
of them knocked at the door. It was a while before one of the men
opened the door and demanded to know why they were being disturbed.
He was told they were under arrest, and the deputies forced themselves
inside the room. They could only see one man there, and he was taken
outside to the squad car. At that time, Angel rushed into the room,
sniffed around then went to the bathroom door. A deputy went to the
door and knocked on it and told the man inside to come out…Now. When
he didn't come out, they threatened to kick the door in. They waited
a bit, then they heard the door open. A Chinese man came out holding
his arm around Linc's throat. He told the deputies to stand away
because he had a knife at Linc's back. The deputies couldn't see for
sure so they backed up. Angel didn't though. She jumped the man's
arm and sunk her teeth into it. He went down screaming, pulling Linc
down with him. Angel then went for the mans face. Deputy Lucy called
to Angel, No angel , No". and he let go of Linc mighty fast then. The
deputies arrested them for kidnapping.
Back at the sheriff's office, the Sheriff was still cussing. After the
men were locked up. He told the lawyers that all the Chinese were
having charges of aiding and abetting a kidnapping charge, added as
well. Pretty soon somebody better see to it that someone was held
accountable for planning all this mess, and he was going to get to
the bottom of it, no matter how many lawyers the Chinese embassy sent
to Goldfield.
Later he told the deputies that Goldfield didn't have a large enough
facility to handle this so he had requested that the prisoners be
transferred to the Capital. This was getting too hot to handle and he
wanted no part of it any more. Four of the deputies said they would
stick around just in case they might be needed until reinforcements
came from Carson City, to get the prisoners, and left to find a place
to stay for the time being, and the others went back to Tonopah.
Linc told the Sheriff and deputy Lucy that the men at the motel
phoned a lawyer they called Davis, that must not speak Chinese.
They talked with him on a speaker phone so they both could hear. The
men told him that they thought they had him at the store, but he just
seemed to disappear , and when they went to find him, the next thing
they knew he was driving away. They followed and figured they would
take him at home. They were flabbergasted when he stopped just out of
town and let the dog out. That's when they took me. The lawyer told
the kidnappers, that one of the men at the prospect this morning was
a brother of one of the men killed, and they were going to make him
the one to take the fall on the land mines. He said he would be over
shortly to get Linc. They were going to use him as a bargaining chip
to get the clam jumping charges dropped. As far as kidnapping goes,
they could claim Linc came with them freely. Just his word against
all of them. They had to prove he was kidnapped. Linc said he was
sure glad the deputies came when they did, but how did they know where
he was , and how did Angel get there as well. Deputy Lucy told him
how Angel showed up at the office and wanted to be followed. She
seemed to know where you had been taken. She's one very smart dog and
you should be very proud of her. "I am", said Linc. Angel seems to
have inherited the instincts of her mother. Her mother led me to a
little girl with a broken leg. She gave Angel to me as a puppy.
Deputy Lucy knelt down on the floor beside Angel and hugged her and
petted her. The Sheriff even gave her a few pats as well.
Linc thanked everyone for saving him from the kidnappers. He was glad
this was all over but now all he wanted, was to go home. He said his
truck was still parked beside the road outside of town and would
someone give him a lift to get it. Deputy Lucy said she would take
him out there. Linc and Angel followed her to a cruiser and got in.
On the way to the truck, Lucy asked Linc where he lived. She knew he
didn't live right there in town. When they reached Linc's truck, Lucy
said, ' now I know how Angel knew where you were. She must have
followed the car to the motel. Good dog, she said again".
Linc thanked Lucy for the lift, and drove on to the farm. He took the
tote with the stuff for Trudy into the house. He could smell
something good cooking. And that reminded him, he didn't eat any lunch
today. The pie and coffee was good but not filling. He was going to
grab an apple but decided his jaw was sore from having the gag on so
tight. He went into the living room just as John and Lucas came
home.
Later as they ate supper, Linc told them all that had happened that
day. They were all concerned about Angel and said how glad they were
that Linc had taken her with him. Linc said how glad he was too, but
he never did get a hair cut.
As they were sitting in the living room later watching the TV, the
national news came on with the story about the Chinese fiasco. They
had really started an incident that they were going to find very hard
to live down. This did not help relations with China.
That night he was about to get into bed, and saw that Angel was
licking the lads of her paws. Linc took a look at them and then he
hugged her and said how sorry he was that her poor paw pads were
swollen a bit and looked very sore. He knew he was too keyed up to
sleep so he picked Angel up and took her to the retreat. There was a
full moon and it was almost as bright as day. Linc put Angel on a
lounge and sat down beside her and petted her. He crooned to her
about ho much he loved her and how glad he was that she had helped
him. In a bit he went and got a blanket and covered her up, telling
her that she would feel much better in the morning. In fact they both
would. His jaw was sore from the gag. His hip and shoulder hurt from
the fall to the floor when Angel pulled the kidnapper down. Linc went
inside and got the coffee pot set up for morning, and made a big
thermal cup of hot cocoa and took it back out and sat by Angel. He
talked to her about everything he could think of, trying to make
himself sleepy, all the while petting her. After a while he could see
she was asleep, so he went into the house and went to bed. He finally
went to sleep, and was awakened in the late morning by Angel pawing at
him. He was surprised to see it was almost seven o-clock in the
morning. He got up, got a cup of coffee and had to heat ir up in the
micro wave. Then he and Angel went back out into the sunshine and sat
on a lounge in the sun.
Linc could see she was feeling better, and the swelling in her paw
pads had gone down. He felt that the soreness had gone out of his
jaw but his hip was still a bit sore. Well another day or so, they
would both be in better shape.
With the coffee gone, he went inside and fixed pancakes, bacon and
eggs for both of them. After clean up they went back out and lay in
the sun on the lounges. They spent that day just laying around and the
next night they went back to the farm.

To be continued.