"You are a very special, brave girl. I'm so proud of you, little Becca. It's all over now." No!" Her head came up sharply. "It isn't all over. I've go... to help Nell and the other girls in that brothel. I've got to try and give the kids still in the home hope. It isn't over my darling Uncle Steven. You have done so much for me. Now I want to try and help the others. Will you help me do that too?" Yes, my little love."Her breath caught and Steven realised he had gone too far."I think you've. When we got to Kansas City, the story was a bad as it had been at the rendezvous—nobody was interested in buying furs. The only hope at this point was to head for St. Louis. There were no pirates this time for us to contend with, but that was a mixed blessing. Some of the tension could have been relieved by a battle, but even that was denied the mountain men. They were chewing logs and spitting toothpicks by the time we reached St. Louis.Capt. Johnson had some contacts there who could be of a. "I wasn't just asking because of her. You see, I'm that way, too. I'm a lesbian." OK," Brock said as he glanced from Zoe's face to the faces of Randi and Meredith beside her. Surely, he thought, there was more to the situation than this. Zoe just stared at him. He wasn't sure anything else needed to be said."OK?" she asked. "That's it?"Apparently, Brock was wrong. Something more did need to be said. He just didn't know what it might be."Uh, I'm happy for you?" he tried. "Hell, Zoe, what more do. Kathy told him, "We don't want to embarrass her, sending her back into thestore like this do we?"Billy shook his head."We don't have a wash basin or sink in here though, hmmmm."Robyn squirmed, she knew what Kathy was going to make Billy do."I think you need to help your girlfriend out billy."Billy looked at her, he hadn't thought of Robyn being his 'girlfriend'though he liked the sound of that.Robyn was wiggling her legs back and forth, all of this talk and the whatshe suspected was coming, was.