“He musta stole it or sold somethin’ purdy valuable.”“Let me know when you find out. I gotta find a hidin’ place for this gold.” I buried ...t under a stall in the barn.The papers the galoot had on him showed he wuz a former soldier. Beth an’ Philomena looked through old newspapers an’ discovered that an Army arms depot had been raided an’ a huge load of weapons an’ ammunition wuz taken. The Army tracked down the galoots, all former soldiers, but the stuff had already been sold to a Mexican. When we got to the Hub, we had to wait in a line outside. The smells offried food made me hungry! There was one table empty, a little round thingwith one pedestal-style leg and four chairs, tucked into a corner.When the girl came to take our orders, I played it safe and just asked forwhat Sarah had requested, a chili dog and onion rings, and water. The guysgot bowls of chili, and burgers and fries.I was across from Kevin, which meant that his buddy sat on one side of me.Kev and Sarah were deep. ‘Now why don’t you get out of those togs and onto this bed?’ I needed no further urging and started by shedding my jeans, shorts and socks, then pulled my t-shirt over my head and knelt on the bottom of the bed. ‘Where’s Lauren?’ I heard myself asking … it was going to be one of those nights for stupid questions. ‘Don’t be greedy,’ Lucinda teased, ‘She will be along later …. You didn’t think that you were going to get out of here without satisfying both of us, did you?’ I crawled up the bed. Her back was towards Carol so she could not see her face. After a long silent frozen deadlock of time, Carol dragged herself out of the room with a broken heart and eyes brimmed with tears. She made a promise to herself that day to never fall in love ever again. Rey called her up again and again with stupid excuses of being drunk, hallucinated and confused but Carol was totally deaf ears to him. She never knew what and how Martha did but eventually she forgave her as for her it was all Rey’s.