We may end up having to do it that way, but if we do, I probably won't be around to taste any decent wine from my own vineyard."Sandy nodded, as if sh... understood. "How's the broker working out?" She intended to bring up Barbara Harding, as she was positive the lady had resources Sandy could only dream of. She didn't expect the reaction she received."Stuck up, know-it-all. I don't care if he is from San Francisco, he's an Easterner." Dan drew breath, and launched back in. "Prissy, too. I think. They seemed ready to greet a fifth player, with the exception of the sheriff, who was unable to meet my eye, after his shoddy treatment of Kate, when he had her under his control in the small jail.They were playing stud poker.That was my favorite game with four or five players. It meant that all you had to do was size up the “bluffers” and keep a sharp eye out for the cheats with an ace up their sleeve for emergency reasons. I had done my fair share of cheating, but only in those situations. "Now Candy what have you found?" Well I think it's a shield generator," she said, her head again inside the bulkhead."Ok take it back and we'll study it later," I said. "What about life support?" No I don't think so," she giggled. "They seemed to have breathed a mixture of methane and sulpha dioxide." No shit," I gasped"So will it work?" I asked Lila.We had been doing essential repairs at home port for a week now and Lila had just got around to installing the Plasma cannon and moving the old. ?Stan took a step back toward the living room. ?I'm gonna pound that bitch.?Roy put a hand on his shoulder. ?I wouldn't advise it. She's a planner. She knows who we are. If she did to you what she did to me, she got your work number so that she could phone back and give you a final time and address???Yeah,? Stan said. ?So what???So that means that she made sure that we were who we said we were. I guarantee that she left a letter somewhere with our names and phone numbers on it in case anything.