I remember one of his Sackett tales, where Tell Sackett avenged himself against a wealthy rancher who had ruined his life. The man had ambushed Tell, ...hot him and left him for dead, stolen his new bride, then raped and killed her. You didn’t find that sort of thing in Zane Grey. It was a simpler time, with a simple code of honor, someone does you wrong, you right that wrong yourself, and life goes on. As I watched the meandering river, and saw the sprawl of modern El Paso begin to take shape. We got some convict labor, too, sefen-year men. Den d'ironmaster undt his crew, some of them's 'dentured too," he counted them off on his fingers, "plus the blacksmith, dot hard bunch at the forge. Stay avay from dem. Ya, think two hundred's a good guess, but my job's chust dot damn eisern furnace. Ve'll have two here right soon, and in a vile there'll be two more belching away out near Fred'rich Town makin' pig iron into golden pounds for dose pesky infestors." Where?" asked Matthew."Ach, out. Anh and Terry had plenty to occupy them. She was learning her way round the office and the barge and working hard on her degree. Both of them made the journey to Hartford, Huntingdon to talk to Terry's parents and the Vicar. They scheduled the wedding for mid March, explaining it would be very difficult to take time off once the sailing season began. Marty and Jenni both visited regularly and became fast friends with the new couple; Amy drove over during the week with Beth, who was finding. “Hi Dom” “Hi I’m Monika” She looked even better up close and personal.Liked the sound of that, Dom & Monika chuckling to myself and smiling. Monika nice, dam nice!I made my excuses and took the notes and left. It didn’t take long for Monika to start asking questions about me and no one said anything about me, as they knew nothing except I liked to smoke.I did some digging myself and she had a boyfriend in another campus which didn’t bother me for a dude to leave this girl alone for too long,.