How about if we do it this way... ?" And I laid the mattress pads crosswise to the direction of the bedroll. "That way, we won't have the split in the...mattresses."After we had closed the light and crawled under the covers, Jill snuggled up to me and settled her head on my shoulder, between my arm and my chest. With her free hand, she lightly turned my head towards her and said "Have I told you lately that you are the most amazing, gentlest ... sweetest guy I've ever met?" And she kissed me. Suddenly she sneezed, and her glass eye came flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reached out, grabbed it out of the air, and handed it back.“Oh my, I am so sorry,” the woman said, as she popped her eye back in place. “Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you.”They enjoyed a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they went to the theatre followed by drinks ... They talked, they laughed, she shared her deepest dreams and he shared his. She listened to him with. "So, father is forcing them on the defensive, to get something out of the bargain." Big Cloud smiled and nodded his head."Any time that you have to bargain, it should always be from the best position that you can. Now the Army is in a weak position. They know that their lives here will be sacrificed along with every white in the Indian lands. It gives them great motivation not to start a war. But, like any other stick, the more that you wave it, the less that it frightens your enemy." Big Cloud. After some minutes he decided that the best way to figure out what it meant was to open it and see. He slowly slit the top of the envelope with his dinner knife and took out the note inside it.Dear Ben, I know that you have long been bored with our life and the never ending routine, and frankly so have I. I feel that we have reached a crossroads and that this will determine how our future together will look like. I know you once loved surprises and so I have decided to give you one as a gift.