"Here, let me read this to you folks. It says, 'Red heads die as easy as anybody.' Now if that isn't a threat I don't know what a threat is."Wally spo...e up. "This was supposed to be a three way discussion between Ruby, Greta and me."Stanley came into the studio and held his hand out to Ruby. "Give me that note." Good grief, Stanley. You are the big boss here, but that little red light is not a welcome light. It means shut up and don't talk." The studio engineer sat in his booth and tried to. You had to accept that some patching, pruning, and stretchingwere going to be necessary. Cutting away the extra dough from along thetop with a sharp paring knife, Marcia set about doing just that. Itwould all bake into what looked like a flawless whole, heal itself inthe oven as it baked. But for now, before the filling was poured in, itlooked somewhat Frankensteinian, like a patched and plastered wallhastily covered in whitewash.Before the message come up on her phone, Marcia hadn't even known. ’ (Verse 3) ‘And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.’ (Verse 4) ‘And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass overf the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.’ (Verse 5) ‘And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment. "Don't stop the stage or farmers' wagons," he said, "but make sure they see you and explain what's going on. Tell 'em we're having an Arnold County trial. If a bunch of Redcoats or Provincial militia show up, challenge them, parley, slow 'em down if you can and send a rider to the courthouse to tell us how many's coming. Try to stay out of a fracas; no shooting if you can help it. We don't want anybody hurt. We been lucky so far."By the time the sun was high, we were back at the old courthouse.