"She woke up a while ago," Bethany said. "You needed more sleep. Do you realize that in the last two days you spent almost forty-five hours running th... teleport system? And the last twelve or so was after you had a concussion from hitting your head." It had to be done," I said."It did, and from what we can tell you saved a lot of lives. The concubines on the carrier would have died if they were still on the ship when the structure failed," Bethany told me. "Or at least that's what I'm being. "That was all I needed to hear. I kicked him one more time and then the other police officers pulled me off of him. They took me outside. By then I was cooling off a little. You just don't know how it feels to come across your wife with another man and then hearing the words, "Please don't hurt him."The officers went back in to talk to the man. He said he was going to file police brutality charges against me. The officers informed him that he did pull a knife on an officer and they could write. So you have to dress up too. Besides, you like candy and you can go trick-and-treating before we leave. So I'll ask again. What do you want to be for Halloween?" As always, I wanted to be a cowboy or pirate or soldier. But I knew better than to say it. Mother hated masculine aggressiveness and would never approve of an aggressively masculine outfit. "Maybe a hobo," I answered, "or a clown or a leprechaun."Pretty wimpy, I thought, but at least they were all males. If mother had her way she'd. Things happen to holdouts. I saw you dancin' with Roxie. Last fall someone set fire to a number of the stacks of hay at her dad's ranch. I had to loan them some to make it through the winter. Things like that seem to happen around the basin all too frequently. It don't make sense that rustlers would waste time on things like that."Thinkin' about what he'd said, I responded, "What's he tryin' to do, get the whole basin." Yeah, that's just what he's graspin' for." Damn, how big is this area, it.