"Little Bear laughed at this and pointed to another man. "Now, tell me the truth before I lose patience with your lies. Look what else I can do." He r...lled the dead man over and stuffed another firecracker up the corpse's nostril and lit it. He stepped back to keep from being splattered with blood and bits of flesh when the firecracker went off. The firecracker made a gruesome mess of the dead man's face, and a few more of Little Bear's men vomited.The man who was about to lie, blanched and. They'd offered to rent him a crutch at the University Medical Center, but he declined. Kate hovered anxiously behind, wanting to help, but caught by a strange sense of needing to let him accomplish this on his own in front of his peers. Ben smiled at her, while he paused on the top stair. He wiped the sweat beading on his forehead away. Kate knew it wasn't from the morning heat alone, yet she kept her thoughts to herself."Ah, the prodigal son returns!" Sergeant Hauptmann was the first to look. "I went back to the wardrobe and pulled out a dress. I hated it. It wasso girly. To start with it was pale pink. Secondly it diaphanous -almost see though but it had a sewn-in pink lining to preserve modesty.It was filmy and would bounce up and down with every step. Thirdly itwas a girly shape, gathering under the boobs and flairing out in what Ithink is called a babydoll style.Fourthly the material was printed with little pale yellow flowers onit. Ugh. I was so girly. I hated it. You'd never. " I led her to the bar. "Let's have a drink to celebrate. What would you like?" Well, I guess if I'm going to be a lawyer's wife, I have to learn to drink like one. What would you suggest?"I made her a gin gimlet and poured a Scotch for myself. I turned the lights down. We sat on the chesterfield in front of the fireplace. "I took a big chance tonight," I said."What do you mean?" You could have said 'no' and made me look like a jerk in front of all those people." Not bloody likely. But when I.