"Tie this garbage to the chair." Ben was out of his seat before Tom finished talking. He quickly went to his horse and returned with some rope. Luke a...d Ben had Don Alverez tied to his chair before Tom had put his coat back on.Tom looked at Luke, "Did Pat drive you here today?" Luke nodded and told him that the boy spent his day in the kitchen, helping out and sneaking what he could get away with. Tom grinned before he yelled for Pat.Pat came flying through the kitchen door carrying a carving. Since his father’s death five years before, she had acted as both mother and father to him and his s****r, and since Glenda had come of age, she had relinquished more and more of her parental attitude toward them both. Still, they deferred to her in most matters, for they both understood the responsibility she bore for them. Later that evening, Glenda returned for a short time and Aurry heard her packing. He was tempted to go to her room and plead with her not to go, but he knew it was. But the tendril of doubt remained – will he still love me?"Next time I have some leave and I'm down here in the South, Merry, I'll come look you up. But I'll need your phone number and address, and your home unit."Merry's face crumpled, and she sobbed. "I owe you so much, Sandy. I could never have done this without you."Sandy hugged the other girl. "Hush. You could have, you know. You're stronger than you think." She looked at the other girl, and impulsively promised, "I'll write."Merry wrote. Kids used them to pilot model planes, cars and boats. They raced them all over the place and over all kinds of terrain. I would be hard wiring a remote board into the wires leading to the gunsites and then hard wiring the guns to the receiver set on the other end. By using a hard wire on each one we didn't need to worry about the radio frequencies, crossing them or having them jammed. It was a little more work but would give us better utilization in the long run. I was set up on this end, all I.