Sitting in front of me, he cocked his head and looked at me as if asking, “Are they crazy?”Everyone was excited as we ate supper, each of us looki...g forward to the trip being over. Well, the missionaries still had a long way to go, but the rest of us would be home. The trappers would be back at Fort John--or Fort Laramie as they called it--where they lived and worked. My group would still have to make the short trip to the cave, but we’d be within spitting distance.Reverend Walters approached. Damn near a master fencer, he taught me that. I was never as good as him with a foil or rapier lacking his finesse. I could get by pretty good…well may a little better that? I actually prefer the saber, while Gunny likes the rapier. For most purposes the saber is too big to hide so a bowie knife it is. Mine has a seven inch blade that I made from D-2 Tool Steel. I made the coffin shaped handle from black buffalo horn set with nickel silver pins and the guard from nickel silver. It is easily. Sarah patted her hand on the bed as she said in a soft voice to Erika "Okay, hun, get on the bed on your knees." The two girls held Erika's arms as she slowly lifted her left knee to the bed and then the right, leaving her feet hanging off the end. Sarah and Amanda each took off one shoe, leaving just Erika's socks as Amanda instructed Erika to move forward on the bed a little more until they said, "stop." Erika immediately obeyed and moved forward until she was kneeling in the middle of the. We left the house an hour after the sun rose, and I called Sheriff Naile to let him know that we were on our way.My next call was to Marshal Pope, who assured me that there appeared to be no Sa'arm activity in our direction. He reminded me, "You know that can change, so all of you listen for your phones. We've been able to set up so that there are phone alerts like you would get for bad weather if we see any headed your way."We walked; we talked; we sang; we played silly word games. It was more.