On occasion, the shopkeeper was away from the store and they could talk for a few precious moments, but there wasn't another chance to hold each other...like they had in the back of the storehouse that one special day.Spring came early that next year and before long, Travis was getting ready to finally start the last leg of his journey to his homestead. He was looking forward to getting started on the property and to getting settled. It had taken him much longer than he had originally planned,. Devious tactics by the boys resulted in another dozen fatalities among the militia. But the boys were cornered and utterly defeated. Fifty-five young men had been killed in battle. Twenty-four who had been part of military resistance had been publicly executed. Authorities refused to comment on the fate of the younger boys. Rumors were that some had been captured and imprisoned -- which was, after all, the fate of all males regardless of behavior. Hard-liners argued that such boys should have. " Ed, in all of our eyes she will be married to us. I can't marry Cassie, but I feel just as married to her as I do to you. She feels the same about me. It would be the same with Delia." What you say makes sense. Let me think about it today."When we had camped for the day, after only traveling twelve miles, I asked Jud and Mina to take a walk with me. After we were away from camp, I said, "Delia and I have done a lot of talking recently. We find we are both in love with each other."Jud's face. "I looked for Carl's reaction when I asked the next question, "Do you think there's any truth to the accusations?"Carl stopped eating and began to get mad, "Not a chance. Tom Benson has to be worth pretty much eighty, ninety million. I bet that if he split everything up half way with the whoring bitch that you wouldn't see nothing' except her dust as she rode out of town. Hell, they only been married two years."I chuckled. Carl was a very educated man. He talked like a rube to throw everyone.