He continued to do this until he controlled most of the land along the river that had been the original porciones or about one third the size of the o...iginal Pleas grant, somewhere in the range of eight thousand acres. Basically, that is the story Martin Pleas told his sons, Howard and Frank. In conversations with Frank, he can only recall a few snippets of what his father told him, he was so young it seemed more like a nursery rhyme than family history."Martin Pleas was an only child, as was. He said he married but that only made him realize that he had left the woman he really loved back in Chicago.I'm sure some of the people around us saw the anger in my face as I thought about ending the conversation and leaving with my wife, but just then, without so much as looking at me for approval, he asked her to dance. She acted as if I wasn't even there when she held her hand out for him to take and accepted. I'm sure it wasn't difficult to see I was fuming as they both walked out to the. Now Sandy had a hard time getting Merry to participate in anything, the woman was sure she'd fail out of PLDC.After a little cajoling, Sandy managed to get Merry to look at the book. She was confident the book was understandable, written as it was for the lowest-acceptable-common denominator for the Army, and Merry was far from stupid. Overdramatic, slightly depressed, and flighty, yes. Stupid, no.Sandy showed her how to plot an azimuth angle, the angle on the compass to follow to get to a. "It's really funny. Some of these people come in — I met a Mr. and Mrs. Kowalski yesterday. He has a machine shop. For some reason, the guard sent them up to me. They were looking around the lobby in awe. They came to thank me for the faith we had in them and to thank us for having such wonderful lending officers. They couldn't stop talking about the remarkable twins who visited them. They were talking about Cindy and April, of course."Anyway, they wanted to know if the bank had any money left..