Use enough of those batteries and an inverter as you have over there,” he said, nodding toward the breaker box and inverter, “and you can easily p...wer a home, but ... these batteries aren’t the same batteries that you will find in our present-day vehicles.“These are far more powerful, and they charge much faster. The batteries I brought, coupled with the new, much advanced solar arrays we installed, will provide all the power that your family will need, and with a couple of hours of sunlight,. She came, and we talked. And I did notjump.I know what you are thinking: Good deed done. Man saved from hisfate. But you do not know Janet. She did not want me not to killmyself. She just wanted me to kill myself to her advantage. Butmaybe mine as well.My life was a mess, and it was all because of my temper. I had beatenup my wife, and not for the first time. But now I was on the run.There was no way I was going back to prison - not after the last time.I was never going to be raped. . You're... uhm, Tim?" Yeah," I said, more astonished than he was at having known my name."How did you... " we both said at the same time, then shared in a laugh."Everyone knows who you are," he said in a hushed voice."They do?" I said, honestly surprised."Yeah," he said, avoiding my eyes. "After you and that other guy, uhm, Joey, got kidnapped, your pictures were on the news every night for a month." Oh... " I said, checking out a few other people's minds around us and finding they also knew. Sam said, "Mrs. Carlson? Mrs. Kenneth Carlson?" Kathy just nodded. "Then you ... you're... Kathy?"Again Kathy nodded. Her hand was outstretched to shake his hand, but instead of shaking it he gently lifted it to his lips and softly kissed the back of her fingers. In the most reverent tone of voice Kelly had ever heard he said, "Ma'am, this is a rare privilege. You saved our lives more times than I could ever count."Then he looked at her carefully and nodded saying, "It's only right, too..