Literally, it was bare to the fucking walls! Out in back we found a 55-gallon steel drum with a lot of ashes inside, suggesting that everything they d...dn't take they then burned. No computers, no files of any kind, not even any desks or filing cabinets left! Officially, Lilia and her husband the Village Mayor are off on summer vacation, on a two week cruise or something and completely out of contact. No cell phones on their vacation, supposedly. Henricksen has filed a flight warrant on the both. It doesn't have to make sense. It is part of how we're made up. He was here, Woods was there, but Woods was a thorn in Downs' side. Now, until he knows, it's going to be upsetting for him."I looked over, and movement caught my eye. I watched for a moment and then said, "Agent Ling, did you play with Fiona's sisters?" Yes, why?" she asked as her head turned to look at the two girls. "Oh, I see. You think I should go and be there." Looks like Ken is going to try and talk with them. You might be. “What about bad guys like we’ve run into on the trail to Fountain City?”“What about them?”“Can you and Opal Anne hold off a crew of ten or twenty rough men?” Mick asked with concern.“Opal Anne is a crack shot. I’m not bad. I plan to cut a winding path through the trees to make straight shots impossible. I’m going to plant dynamite in various places that I’ll make look like good places for the bad guys to hide if we’re shooting at them. Then I can cluster some of them up and blow them to. .. I went for my last kiss and to ask, “You’re sure?”“I’ll be fine.”Fully loaded ... both Jim and my Toyota ... What? You bet I’m driving! Jim had a snoot full ... we pulled away from the house and headed out to the GWR ... Great Western Road.“You usually don’t partake of hops and barley before a bit of a dig ... what’s up?”“Your wife knows the finest women in the country, and she’s been introducing them singly and batches. She finally hit the right jackpot and the woman won’t have a damn thing.