At least he was done paying child support to his ex-wifeDonna. He had loved her, but when she left him and took their two kids,she had made sure he ha... paid through the nose, and her seedy lawyershad kept him permanently away from his children. Now they were grown;Billy was 27 and living in Atlanta, and Julie was 24 and lived in NewYork. Neither one ever responded to his letters, but he kept sendingthem anyhow. Most of his friends had moved away, gotten out of thebusiness, or died. It happened. "The sky was only faintly gray behind the mountain peaks when they set out the next morning. Snurl had assigned two brothers to him, short round faced Hill men whose slanting eyes crowded close to their flat noses. Seen from the side, each gave the impression that as a small boy he'd run his face into a stone wall."We go this way." Ch'Wing, the older brother, pointed to a cleft in the hills."Shortest way," his brother Ch'Dan added. "We go to first camp site, then cut across hills to. I kicked myself for noting little meaningless deficiencies it had, compared to our recent luxury digs.What kind of effete snob was I allowing myself to become?The truth was, before our arrival in Hawaii the week before, I had never seen the interior of a hotel suite that could compare to the one we were in -- right now. These were classy quarters, by almost any standard. I wondered whether our trim-but-tiny RV would look as good, now that we had seen Par-ee.We didn't get in a Sunday round, or. ''Listen,kid.Be a good girl and get up on that table.Youn need stitches.'' Michael said softly.Rachel,obeyed.She had urinated in her pants from shock and fright.Her groin felt hot and she could feel her pee,running down her legs.Rachel feeling lightheaded let the guy help her onto the table. She gazed up at the ceiling as he injected her and started stitching her up.She hardly felt the pain as her mind reeled at what was happening to them. She just lay there as the man who had cut her removed.