Sasha felt a wild thrill as she tapped her phone to put the call through then switch to speaker."Hello?" she said looking into Spencer's eyes."Hey bab...," a male voice answered, "Can we talk?" No, Chad. Not ever again," she said gruffly feeling Spencer digging deeper, "starting right now." Wait! don't hang up," Chad said in s rush, "I wanna see you so I can make things up to you." So," Sasha said slightly strained at the same time Spencer was sucking her breast again, "you basically wanna see me. "And besides, I saw her well enough. She has a child's natural curiosity and fearlessness — she asked me about my blindness, so I told her. In exchange she let me feel her face most thoroughly. My God, Earl, she would have been devastatingly beautiful, with brains to match unless I miss my guess. God and his plans, I suppose."Earl Culberson didn't have nearly the faith that his wife had, and so he remained carefully silent on the subject of a God that would allow such things to happen to little. "James doubted that would matter to either the mother, or the driver. He nodded."Accidents happen." Exactly. We now are left with a seemingly endless stream of stragglers. I swear, our riders are reporting a family or two every mile they backtrack the trail. We have no idea how many people are still out there." The Captain's eyes went to Jasinski, scorn barely hidden. James kept his focus on his second in command."The more of our people who are still alive, the better." The Captain's gaze. "Wilkes had obviously taken to the bad cop part with glee and enthusiasm. I stood up and pushed back my chair as Teller also stood up."Gentlemen, it's been real. See you in court. Real court."Bailey motioned to me to sit."Mr. McCarthy, Billy, let's keep our heads. We won't do anyone any good if we let emotions run rampant. Everybody sit down. We may have to discuss some sensitive issues, we probably will, but I think we all realize that everyone is going to save a lot of money and hurt feelings.