If my pa has his way, they'll probably try to ambush us while we're riding out checking on the herd. If his brother, Mose, gets his way, they'll proba...ly attack the ranch. Their other brothers just kind of go along with Mose or pa." Maddie says they have a lot of hired men. Are they likely to follow your relatives if they attack us?" Probably so. Most of them came from the same area my family came from. They're cut from the same cloth." Rawhide, we've seen what, about three hundred of your. " Doris, is Rummy having a problem?" Of course he is, Helen." Doris skipped through the water, her breasts bouncing slightly. "He hasn't figured out how to handle nude people all over the place. For all his rowdy youth, Rummy's a very conventional sort. He's quite at sea, and I must say, aroused as hell. And you can be sure I'm enjoying that." She grinned up at Helen. "And seeing you in the altogether has got his balls in an uproar, too." She chuckled deep in her chest. "Not that I mind, you. I was hoping to have things at home settle down a bit before I hit them with the next shock. The next window would be after we came back from the next home visit on a Saturday. The next after that would fall on a Sunday three weeks later, and we would be on the island.If we left then, we had five weeks to get ready. If we waited another three weeks after that, we would be off the island again and be getting closer to losing the window of opportunity. However, I thought this eight-week window. And she says it vulgarly, explicitly in away only a woman could joke to another woman. Focus. It's that man she spoke of. He's why I need to go. That PierreSatyr. It was his voice that called me. She says I know him. Somethinghappened. I have only two hours and I'm not even sure what to do, where to begin.How can I possibly be here, dressing as her, sensing her? Tea doesn'thelp. I pour a glass of wine. I don't think I've stopped smoking. Ok.Ok. Ok.The closet has that dress. I know.