He went to the kitchen and came back with a large uncut piece of gingerand a knife. "I'll give you half a centimetre," he said. "That will keepyou out...for only an hour. If I see that I'm going to be longer, do youwant me to give you more before you fully wake up - to keep you asleepuntil I'm ready for you?"We agreed that he would set a timer on his watch so that he'd come backjust before the ginger wore off, and that he could 're-drug' me a maximumof only two times, and only for an hour each. This was a different Carol that stood outside Johnny's door now than the one who had first made contact with Veronica a few months earlier.As instructed, she wore nothing under her raincoat. On her otherwise bare feet, she wore simple leather strap sandals. With unadorned fingers she combed her hair into some semblance of dignity. She wore no make-up, but there was color in her face anyway, from excitement and perhaps embarrassment. No bottled perfume had touched her flesh that day, letting the. Jayden.'I really didn't expect an answer but I dream about all that money and what a wonderful Christmas I could have with mom and Robbie. After school, when I come through the door, Robbie is crying."Jayden, some boys pushed me down and I bruised my knee." Come over here, Robbie, and let me look at it."Dropping his pants, he shows me a large bloody area on his knee. It's only a deep scrap but it looks terrible. I walk him to the bathroom."Take off your pants and I will clean it."Off come his. One of the men reached under the long bar for a gun. Eli pulled his Colt and fired. The .45 slug ripped a big gash across the top of his skull while he was bent over. The other man had dropped to the floor as Eli walked around the end of the bar. He was trying to get his hands on the double barreled shotgun, but the dead man was lying on the butt of the gun. He pulled a hand gun, and Eli shot him in the forehead as he looked up, fear in his eyes as he fumbled, trying to back the hammer.The rest.