"After another long period of silence, Mrs. Williams gave a small nod of approval. Annie ran to get Seth a hat."Caroline will stay here with you, Momm..., if that's all right." The girl glared at Seth. "Her father's not home. He's down in the city." Oh, all right, if you don't mind Mrs. Williams," said Caroline, flashing Seth a clenched-tooth smile."Of course not," Seth's mother said. "Don't think your daddy'll be coming out the Pike for a while yet. Annie said she heard some shooting from down. " Look," Chester replied. His patience was clearly wearing thin. "Miguel and I work for a living and are about to be shipped off to a South American oil field for six months. Guys like us could be real dangerous to the dickheads if we had the right equipment. Look at how we dealt with that little problem at Toro Rojo. We were outnumbered three to one and the bad guys were shooting first."The Tribune nodded and asked, "Yes, but I was wondering why you waited so long before returning. "Shyly I took off the gown and picked up Laura's discarded bra. I knewthe easy way from watching girlfriends so fastened the back on my tummyand then pulled it around and up under my tits. Before trying the cupson, I realised that it was far too tight because I could hardly breathe,so I had to give up. "I think Laura will be able to guess your sizesnow," said Len and I noticed that I too was easily referring to Dave asa different person.Laura had already told me that she had lived with Tom/Tina. “How do you do, Christian,” I said, aware that it seemed a very old-fashioned thing to say. “Is that a French accent?” “Mais oui, Madame. I was born on the island of Corsica, in a small village near the town of Bastia.” “How do you come to find yourself so far from what must be a much more pleasant Mediterranean climate?” “I work with computers, writing software. My company has recently opened an office over here, so I thought it would be fun to look my friend Benjamin up again!” They laughed,.