“Oh, you’ve made your position quite clear, yes,” Alexandra sighed.“So why are you here?” Caine asked flatly.“I need a favor,” Alexandra...replied.Caine stood up, about to leave.“Sit,” Alexandra said in a tone that reached straight down into Caine’s mind and threatened to usurp it completely. Three nearby people, who could not possibly have heard the Prelate over the noise of the crowd, all sat down directly in the dirt and looked confused. One of them got back up and looked around. Caine stopped. "Well, she is developing and I'll bet she's been asked out, and maybe even snuck out on a date or two. She's 15 or 16 and I bet her hormones are raging. I know one night sitting for me I came home after a job and she was asleep in front of the TV watching a movie on HBO, I think it was Little Children. She was asleep with her pants open and her hand in her jeans. I backed away and made some noise and she jumped up as soon as she tidied herself. Nothing wrong with a girl fantasizing, just like I. You been through all this before." The older of the two policemen shook his head in frustration."I smell drugs on all three," Dog told Greg."How about we all swear they tried to stop us, and this guy here threatened us with his gun? You now have probable cause to search them for more weapons. The fruits of said search will inad ... ad ... advertantly turn up the illicit drugs." Greg smiled as he delivered his speech to the astonished cops."Yeah. I like it," one officer exclaimed. "Don't grow up. Ohthank you for saying that. You don't know how much it means to me."5Lord Hurley settled down to fish at one of the wider parts of the river,just inside Mossgrove Forest, close to the shadow of the old stonefootbridge Burt used when he walked into the village the longer way.Burt had laboured all the way there, weighed down with all the equipmentwhile Lord Hurley wandered along, hands behind his back, whistlinghappily.Burt busied around, helping Lord Hurley get comfortably into position andset.