I couldn’t stop talking to her. I wanted to tell her everything. Occasionally I would ask her something but she evaded my questions easily, skilfull... and gently, although she did volunteer her name, Jessica. Not that that mattered I babbled and spewed my life out onto the table for her. ‘Sounds a little like my life_’ she said at length. ‘No way!’ I said incredulously, not realising how stupid I sounded. She nodded, ‘I had a night like the one you’ve described, a few years ago, not too far from. She's convinced. She just doesn't want to admit it. She's used my photos of Mindy's house and made a plan. It's all set up for zero hour, nine PM, tonight, twenty minutes from now. The assets are all in place. I've got my gun in my trenchcoat pocket, but of course, I'll be taking the trenchcoat off once I'm inside, and there will be no place to hide a gun in what I'll still be wearing. My only weapon will be my wit. We get word that Mindy and Keri and their children have been secured. I get a. Those abs and her cute little behind were her greatest assets.She walked into the house giving me a kiss, “hey sweetie, so where’s your mom and aunt?”“Oh, they left to shop for a few hours, but if you hang around for dinner you could still meet her.” She moved slowly across the room, looking a little nervous and I knew there was something on her mind, “Let’s go upstairs to your room” she said as coolly as she could and I was beginning to wonder what exactly she had come over for. When we got to. The massive trestle timbers felt more like rock than like wood. Their attack on the telegraph lines earlier had gone much better, but then telegraph lines tended to be much more fragile than railroad trestle bridges.The predawn gloom and heavy fog made it almost impossible to see anything but at least the fog muffled the sounds of the sledgehammers hitting the joints on the railroad bridge.Unfortunately, it also muffles the sound of the approaching Yankee cavalry.As soon as Mary saw the vague.