“We’ll see.” Allison got to her feet. Lionel looked startled and worried, rekindling Allison’s sense of control over the situation. As she pas...ed him in the doorway she grabbed him by the ear as a teacher might an errant schoolboy. “Come along,” she said crisply, pulling him along behind her, “let’s look at your work.”Allison wasn’t confident of finding fault with anything Lionel had done. He’d proven to be both attentive and effective when it came to domestic tasks. In fact he was far more. It turned out that the injured mule was Rory’s, which was good because it needed some care and he knew just what to do to keep it healthy.It was about four o’clock when Opal Anne and I were ready to leave the camp. We bid our farewells and headed off. Of course, my brothers followed us. At least they followed us until the debris field. Even though packed full, the mules almost danced over the rock and dead trees making up the field. Opal Anne and I led our horses across, and since they had done. You didn’t think that I could do what we just did and not be starving?’ ‘Well I figured that you would be hungry but shit Landon that sandwich would feed me for two days, and the pasta salad for another two.’ ‘Well sweetheart you try doing all the things that I did in your bed and tell me that you stomachs not yelling at you to feed it.’ ‘Landon if you’ll take the time to remember I was throwing down some moves of my own, and I’m hungry also I just know that its taken me four years to get. Rudy went out, too, and I went out right behind him. Robert, with four cards left, managed -- using them all -- to pull three sixes. The pot notched up another two dollars. Rajiv failed to beat Robert and play moved on to Edwina, who pulled a third ten. She raised another two bucks and Jim covered it. Somebody was going to be insanely rich...It was Jim. He pulled a nine, which gave him a natural pair and a full house, nines over treys. Smiling, he nodded at Edwina as he raked it in. "Good play..