Sid was wary at first as he,d heard how easy it was to scam and most of the time it wasn,t even a woman he spoke to. Then he suspected she was after m...ney, but he didn,t have much. He decided in the end to just talk dirty to her and not take it any further and they carried on like that a few months till fate stepped in and took a hand, one night as she sent him a message “Dear Sid. Great News! I,ve just won the lottery and over a million pounds in your money. Please send me your address and. A small river flowed from the hills in a sweeping reverse curve to the side of the palace and could be crossed easily only at one point, where there was a ford. Groves of trees had been planted on either side of the river and at the northern end an artificial swamp had been made, complete with reeds and mud-holes. In the east, just below the foothills an area about a mile across was artificially drained and the topsoil had been replaced by sterilised sand to make a small artificial desert. This. The wives had said that they were joining, and the husbands could come along if they wanted to maintain the family. This seemed far fetched, but everybody understood, even the men, after they thought about the subject for a while.The tampon trade had been the major instigator of the rise in the acceptance of money as a facilitator of trade. Villages that wanted tampons, but had nothing that Doug's Town wanted, traded with more fortunate communities to get money to use to buy the necessary. We got back to the hotel around 10:00, and Mrs. Holman did a room check before locking us in. We waited exactly five minutes for her to be gone, and then we went out on the balcony to drink the beers. When we'd finished each can, we lobbed it across the street, so as to avoid Holman finding the empty cans in our trash. Austin rolled the pot into a joint and brought it out for us to share."We should probably take our shirts off." Good idea," I went back inside and left my shirt on the bed..