We shook hands and I led him inside to the utility room where his guys were busy getting ready to work. Richard greeted them all by name and stood off...to the side as they worked. "Richard, how do you know Julie?" I met her when we cleaned her house some years ago. She was so impressed that she has called upon us several times to do this same thing to several houses that she is doing. I am so glad that she called us about this one." Why?" I asked him. This could be a fun answer."When she said. My job afforded me the opportunity to work out regularly. I began to get serious about my fitness. I ran 75 to 100 miles a week. I chopped wood in the wintertime. I was a well-oiled machine. Soon I had a regular visitor. It was Detective Goslin. We had become friends during the trial. In time, we became more than friends. She had dark hair and dark eyes. She cleaned my wounds with her clever tongue. In time, she earned my trust. There was a lake on my property. We would strip our. I asked Jo what they were doing here, and they said they were students at Sul Ross University in Alpine, and were National Park volunteers, so had been in the Big Bend National Park for a couple of months. “It’s a big place,” I said, “and I’m surprised that you would want to cut yourself off from most of civilisation at your age.” “Yes, it’s different,” Pat said, but looking at Jo, said that there were compensations. I got the idea that they were very good friends, if not long term lovers, just. They explained to me that the the King had numerous relatives by blood and by marriage, and he also had numerous enemies. As part of the generally belligerent attitude taken by all of the residents of Horurie, it was common for one House to attack peripheral members of another House. There was nothing personal in the attacks, that was just the way society ran around here.They emphasized that I could expect similar attacks once I was officially a member of the King's extended family. The King.