What was he after?’ ‘He retired from the mercenaries about a month ago and moved to Virginia to start a security firm and get started with civili...n life. He’s been there about a week and has just discovered that he has a contract on his ass. He’s already been shot, had a couple of people killed at his place, and just found out that the person chasing his ass is a CIA operative who he believed was dead. All in all he’s in deep shit. He wants to hire us to watch the homestead while he does a. When I turned them in to the marshal, we found them on the latest batch of posters. One was wanted for train robbery and the other was wanted for kidnapping. Together, they were worth $135. Yes, that was a profitable pause in my journey!I picked up the new batch of posters and left Arbuckle right after a lunch of beef and beans in the hotel restaurant. This time, I headed south. I had a feeling that I had used up my luck toward Brandy and beyond, so I headed in the general direction of Laredo,. His hair was a little longer than his usual businessman’s haircut and it was much grayer. At dinner he watched most of a basketball game he didn’t care about and then went to a house phone and called room 821. No one answered. He went back to his room and set up his test. A vacuum and a drill came out of his suitcase and he drilled a hole through the floor in his room and through the ceiling in the room below. Room 821. The hole was small, 9mm to be exact. He had positioned the hole based on. ‘Well, he was still alive when I left him,’ I kind of giggled. Oh, Lord, when did I start giggling like this? ‘But he did like it. Still, I’m not used to the attention from other guys.’ ‘Good attention?’ Monica asked. ‘Oh, I’m not sure. Ever since I started using your cream rinse, and my hair got looking better, there are these four guys who sit in the back of my calculus class who keep looking at me, and one of them has asked me out, twice. He quit when I showed him my engagement ring, but.