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    4 Letters
    4 Letters
    4 Letters
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    4 Letters

    By D. E. Harrison

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    Fred, a Whitehouse lawyer, writes a brief on a letter from the smoky mountains of the deep south to the Whitehouse. Three other letters were written to other Federal Agencies. The letters may, if true, turn the scientific community on its head and disprove many of their most cherished theories. A college professor suggests Fred will need witness protection if he publishes. Three government aids suggest he goes and finds the person that wrote the 4-letters to their federal agencies. He must stop any more letters or show they are wrong in what they say.
    In the hills he is dressed like a revenuer, which will get him shoot on sight. After hiking for a week in the hills, he is starting to look like one of the hill folks. He is on the trail of the person that wrote the letters. However, he has distant relatives in these here hills but without their last name. He blurted out once who his great, great, great grandma was and he is told to tell no one.
    He finds himself in the middle of a family feud going back almost 200 years. Fleeing with JD makes it worse, now his kin want his hide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateOct 20, 2018
    ISBN9780463116333
    4 Letters
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      4 Letters - D. E. Harrison

      4 letters

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2004 by D. E. Harrison

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Late in the 20th Century – Deep in the Hills of the Southern USA

      Chapter 2 Six Weeks Before Fred was Fleeing Deeper into the Hills

      Chapter 3 The 4-letters Sent

      Chapter 4 The 4-letters Arrive

      Chapter 5 The First Letter

      Chapter 6 The Second Letter

      Chapter 7 The First Letter Researched

      Chapter 8 The Trip to Find JD, the Writer of the Letters

      Chapter 9 Looking for the Writer

      Chapter 10 The Writer is Found

      Chapter 11 Fred and the Writer see Eye to Eye

      Chapter 12 The Feud is On

      Chapter 13 They Flee

      Chapter 14 The Very Start

      Epilogue

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      Chapter 1 Late in the 20th Century – Deep in the Hills of the Southern USA

      Fred Bender, a White House lawyer is staring into the early morning haze of the Smoky Mountains. From the high ridge, he can barely make out six or seven men coming up the far gully through the brush and full leafed scrub oak. The hills are covered in patches of green with a few flowers in between them. Ten days ago, his only friend had pulled, pushed, drug, and bullied him ever deeper into the hills. JD told him that no one ever goes this deep, though they are not sure why.

      Fred has been in the hills for only three weeks and he has seen the men use and clean their rifles every day. The occasional glint he sees is off well-oiled rifles. The scrub oak in the gully is now thicker and hides their movements for minutes at a time. It is going to be warm today, in many ways.

      JD, I see them in the far second gully, six maybe eight of them, Fred says pointing South West.

      JD does not bother to look up, as their packs are made ready to move. JD's only remark is, Shucks, what you expect. They don’t need a dog to track you. We agreed it was best to go back and talk with them.

      JD, I think they are going to shoot me! There is more than fear in Fred’s voice.

      JD finishes with the packs, hands one to Fred, Fred, I told you before, even in a feud a man has rights. It is too bad you put your foot in the middle of a feud that has been going on near 150 years. As far back as I can remember only a piece of hot lead might show up in your door. No one has been shot for a long spell.

      Fred takes the pack, shouldering it with the one strap it has, JD, that is just great. I did nothing wrong and now both sides want to shoot me.

      JD starts down the trail and tells Fred, come on, You let me do the talking. If my kin want to shoot you most, I think we will be fine.

      Fred just knows someone is going to shot him today, he says, Great, I guess your kin shoots me first, and then my kin can have what is left. Let’s go, I am tired of running. Yes, I will not speak unless you tell me to.

      Fred goes down the ridge trail, thinking to himself, Why did I pick that small folder to work on? I could have picked any other one to write a brief. Why did I let those congressional aids talk me in coming down from DC to meet the person that wrote that letter to the White House; Why, Oh Why.

      Chapter 2 Six Weeks Before Fred was Fleeing Deeper into the Hills

      In an isolated rural area of the South, the sun is going down. Most Americans would find it hard to believe that in the 20th century anyone in the USA would be living without electricity. But, when it gets dark in this hill country, the humans, and most critters bed down for the night. Electric power is available only on the very out skirts of these hills. Even there, it is still seldom used in any of the cabins.

      A kerosene lamp is lit in one of these hill cabins on a roughly hand hued table. The wooden chair has neither an iron nor a wooden nail. A flour sack is hanging from a piece of possum hide and it was pulled down over the window opening to discourage the flying bugs. The other option is to shut the wooden shutter with a brace from the outside.

      A large flat carpenter’s pencil is making a narrow mark on semi-brown wrapping paper used for meat in the general store. Several times an old, worn but razor-sharp hunting knife comes out to sharpen the pencil.

      The writing is strong, well-formed and near perfect, even with no lines or margins on the paper for guidance.

      There are three identical copies made from the original, each in the same steady hand. The envelopes have been made from the same wrapping paper using fish glue. They are addressed, stamped, and placed in a hand-made wooden lunch basket. They will be

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