title: Leaving The Nest: Wyatt's Escape
author: Trevor C. Murray
description: My name is Trevor Callanan Murray; I am 29 years old and I reside in Valencia, Ca. I am engaged to be married to my beautiful fianc in October 2013; and I have currently published three books now. I am optimistic for the future as a writer; I plan on writing someday fulltime. I appreciate and thank you all for your support. I hope you enjoy my story.
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  Chapter 1
  
  
  It was four a.m. before Sheriff Owen Buck finally went to sleep. As usual, he
  awoke at five, as soon as pink began to stain the horizon in the east. With a
  sleepy, muttered curse, he sat up on the edge of the ofl&ce cot and put his
  bare feet on the floor.
  
  
  His feet were as big and rawboned as the rest of him. His toenails needed
  clipping. He rubbed his hands over his face, ran them through his hair, then
  wearily got to his feet. This was the last day, he thought. Tomorrow by this
  time he'd be out in the vacant lot next to the stone block jail. Johnny
  McGrath would be standing on the scaffold with a rope around his neck, waiting
  for the sun to rise.
  
  
  Buck was thirty-five 