the maroon that es when blood has well dried。 The abduction hadn't happened too long ago。 Klaus must have reasoned that there was still a chance for his girls； and he meant to take it。
Neither one of them could track worth a damn … they were gatherers； not hunters； men who went into the woods after coon and deer in their seasons not because they much wanted to； but because it was an expected thing。 And the dooryard around the house was a blighted patch of dirt with tracks all overlaid in a meaningless tangle。 They went around the barn； and saw almost at once why Bowser； a bad biter but a good barker； hadn't sounded the alarm。 He lay half in and half out of a doghouse which had been built of leftover barnboards （there was a signboard with the word Bowser neatly printed on it over the curved hole in the front … I saw a photograph of it in one of the papers）； his head turned most of the way around on his neck。 It would have taken a man of enormous power to have done that to such a big animal； the prosecutor later told John Coffey's jury 。。。 and then he had looked long and meaningfully at the hulking defendant； sitting behind the defense table with his eyes cast down and wearing a brand…new pair of state…bought bib overalls that looked like damnation in and of themselves。 Beside the dog； Klaus and Howie found a scrap of cooked link sausage。 The theory … a sound one； I have no doubt … was that Coffey had first charmed the dog with treats； and then； as Bowser began to eat th