deputy keenan had been working double shifts and racking his brain through restless and sleepless nights to try to discover the identity of the man the ex-sheriff had answered to and received pay-offs from.-of course , the full responsibility of making this determination was left to him because they didnt want anyone else to know the sheriff was still alive or that he had been involved with the protection of the dope smugglers.-he still met regularly with charles harrington and harrington was conducting his own investigation but colton still felt keenly the need to clear the remainder of his associates or to nail them for being tied to finkley.- harrington had asked tavalerio to baby-sit finkley since the absence of either keenan or harrington would have been locally noticed and wondered about.-the fewer questions the better until their investigation turned up the other conspirators and proved their collusion in the operation .