If you hadn't left it when you did, you would have beenrecaptured and on your way to your prospective new owner by now."They know you boarded a train ...eaded for San Francisco, but they don'tknow if or where you left the train. Oh, I suspect they find outeventually, but by then, they'll be looking for a scared young manwithout much in the way of resources." Oh Don! They're bound to figure out where I am. Won't they?" Probably, but by then you won't be of much value to them, unless theycan get. “Vittoria Mancini has a nice ring to it, no doubt of that. But you’re sure that you’re fine with marriage to a lecherous American?” I teased her a bit now.“Si, mio amore! You’re no more lecherous than Italian men, trust me, and if I can handle that with them, I can with you as well. There’s nothing wrong with lechery, as long as you’re honest and don’t neglect any of your lovers, of course,” Vittoria asserted rather convincingly.“Least of all you, that is,” I winked at my new Italian lover, who. Looking down at the jug, he grabbed the ring and brought it to his lips again. He slapped the cork back into place and lowered the jug back into the well. Walking to the house, he loaded up anything he thought he might need, all of his Pa's tools and guns, blankets, and such. He started the jacked up Chevy and headed for the Whitman place.Once again he did not approach too closely to the house, and carried on a short shouted conversation with Sarah's Pa. He told them of his Pa's death, and. I could see that underneath the serious and responsible woman I had seen so much of lately, there was a sensual being, who loved to laugh and smile, and who knew how to let a man know that she was thinking of him.We couldn't stay out late, or what I would call late, so by 9pm I was pulling my car up to her driveway."It's only early, Bobbie, would you like a coffee? You didn't get to have one with dinner."It wasn't like something sinful when we both knew her mother was in the house, but then.