She was never able to get that bastard so she directed all her anger at the man she caught attacking her daughter. She began by starting a barn-fire ...n the back yard and she burned all of Howard’s things, but that wasn’t enough. What she really wanted was to see Howard dead and she let her emotions get the better of her. She called her drug dealer, a man that had recently been robbed at gun point by a couple of hooded men in ski masks. She told him that Howard was one of those men. It was. Brenda's face was starting to pull into a frown."Why are you both staring at me?" Brenda said, again speaking Gaelic."Errm, in case you haven't noticed. You're speaking Gaelic," I told her.She was a quick study - there was no doubt about that."Hold on - that guy also spoke in Gaelic, didn't he?" Yes." I think I understood him. Did he say he was looking for Prince Sean?" That's exactly what he said, yes." And did he say he was an envoy from King Kenneth the Second of Axon?" Yep." All right, I'm. Moiranoticed she had to slow down to accommodate her friend's chained, clinkingprogress Isabel's "plight," as the news media called it, was well knownto the townsfolk and she was treated with a mix of curiosity, deference andsympathy by most people who came in contact with her. Inside the store,Isabel went up to the proprietor and said: "Angus, where do you keepyour chain?" Angus MacEwan, 36, a married father of two teenaged girls, looked atIsabel and Moira, then back at Isabel with a slight. HIS WIFE WAS GOING AWAYFOR THE WEEKEND TO VISIT HER MOTHER. THE NEWSPAPER BOY, BRYAN, CAME UP THE WALKWAY WITH A BUNDLE OF PAPERS INHIS HAND. "HI, MR. NASH!" THE BOY SAID CHEERILY. PAUL LEANED OUT OF THE DOOR AND STARED DREAMILY AT THE YOUNG MAN. BRYANWORE TIGHT 501 LEVI'S AND NO SHIRT. PAUL WATCHED AS THE BOY BENT OVER TOPICK UP A COIN HE'D DROPPED. PAUL'S HEART FLUTTERED NERVOUSLY AS HE SAW THE BOY'S ASS OUTLINED IN THEBLUE DENIM. PAUL COULD ALSO SEE THE OUTLINE OF THE BOY'S BRIEFS.