It just so happened the head of security was in personnel,motor one look at me and said, "What do you know about shoplifting?" I thought it was an ac...usation, confessed to nothing and he said, "I will train you...you're hired." For 30 or so hours a week, I walked around different stores (Weinstocks had five in the Sacramento CA area) caught shoplifters and I did not have to invest in several hundred dollars in clothing to make $3.35 an hour. I was making $5.80, so my life was pretty good. . . ' thoughts. Oh, Khalid! When I think of the life that could have been, I feel so much despair, but this changeling's body could never tempt you. If you could only see past this horrible façade and see the true Helen that lies beneath it ... Aw, hell! The only person that ever could was Erik and he accomplished that only with the help of the bracelet. Ha! The bracelet helped the boy to see the true me and it was the bracelet which caused me to look this way in the first place." She paused to. In her hurry, my mother hadknotted them, rather than tie them in a bow, and I was sealedinto the corset until they released me. I pulled a shawl aroundmy shoulders to hide my heaving bosom.It was as Otto had said. I could see now a group of ridersheading in our direction. They would be on us in a few minutes.Curious, I wondered where the villagers had would have obtainedthe horses, as I did not think that there had been that manyhorses in the village. Most of the inhabitants had used oxen. Gloria had a small mouth and the shaft was pulling hard against her cheeks. It took a few moments to adjust it and she was driven from the corral. Across the way Susanna was just having her reins attached on either side of her head. Gloria moaned sadly at the sight of her daughter in that state. When her helmet was fixed in place Susanna set out after her mother, trying to find some comfort by shifting the metal shaft with her tongue. Gloria hardly noticed the reins or the cart being.