Page 416 of Rangers Unexpected Return

Birthday cards.

Then he stops.

“Damn.”

He pulls out an envelope.

The handwriting is unmistakable.

Nathan.

Doc opens it carefully.

“How old?”

“Six years.”

That would have been four years before Nathan died.

“Read it.”

Doc scans the page.

His forehead creases.

“What?”

He looks at me.

“It's mostly nothing. He's giving me shit about disappearing after I left the Army.”

“Anything about Eagle River?”

“No.”

“Anything about trouble?”

“No.”

Then Doc stops.

His eyes move back up the page.

“What?”

“There is something.”

He reads silently.

“Out loud,” Wolf says.

Doc looks at Claire.

Then me.

Finally he reads.

“If you ever get tired of running from yourself, Shaw, there's a place in Texas called Eagle River. I passed through once. Small town. Good people. Feels like the kind of place men like us might finally put the war down.”