They done the same thin' to all the other ranches they hit, too." Wuz the ranches in a line, like a railroad might want to run a track?" Nope, the ran...hes are kind of scattered. It's shore got me confused!" Maybe we should take a look, tomorrow. Ezra's a right smart good tracker. He might see sumpthin' important." OK, meet me here tomorrow right after breakfast an' I'll take y'all out fer a look."The two rangers got a room in the local hotel and had supper in the Hotel's restaurant. "I hope we. " I just told ya I'm telling him, DiNozzo. You need to sit back and let me worry about this, okay? Jack had a black business partner in a time when that wasn't done and sure as hell never in rural Pennsylvania. Jack is gonna accept us just fine. Like I accepted L.J. as his best friend and business partner when I was a boy. Like she—my mother—accepted L.J. as well. The foundation is there, DiNozzo." He does seem ahead of his time." But best friends were different from children. But maybe Jeth. She seemed indifferent, I think I was keener on her than she was on me, I think I was the 'got no better offers' date. Anyway I was a bit annoyed at her attitude, and it must have sounded in my voice, because we ended up rowing on the phone, and we both said some hurtful things. As with any situation like that it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. I wanted a sexual relationship, I told her I didn't think she was into men, we had been out a few times, and I hadn't got past a quick peck. .. that you want to do to me, maybe?" I teased."Mmmm... well, that list could take quite a while. Where are you?" Outside a gourmet food store in Nina-land."She laughed at me adopting the phrase she had invented. "Oh, well, that's perfect. I would start with the gourmet hors d'ouvre I love, and that would be your mouth. I would just savor it... kiss you like crazy, suck that sweet tongue of yours into my mouth and make love to it until my jaws ache."My mouth was going dry, and I felt my sex.