The owners were willing to let us do them in a back room and most of the men are living down in that area.”“Does the back room you used have a bac... door?” At their nod, I asked, “What’s behind the cantina?”“The only thing back there is the outhouse, and a large old stable that the owners use for storage,” Paddy answered. “There’s hardly anything in there though.”“Okay. You guys go ahead and write out a message and the list of men. When you’re done, Eric and Paddy will go deliver them. If they. Program trading, which under the rules was suspended after a rise or fall of fifty points in the Dow Jones average, was suspended after the markets had been open ten minutes. The Dow had dropped nearly one hundred fifty points in the first half hour. Volume had already passed one hundred million shares by that time. No buyers at all could be found on the floor. Everything was sell. Sheer panic reigned. Nothing like it had ever been seen before, not even two days before when everyone thought. .." Lois hazarded cautiously.Mike made it work; the hotel staff was going to be pissed, probably, when they saw what it did to the hanger. The door closure was pretty robust; it snapped the hanger on the first pass. Mike used both pieces to make it work. "How's that?"Lois eyed it and nodded. "It will last long enough, I think. This might only take a minute." She bit her lip, waiting. Mike figured it out and backed into the room.Lois followed cautiously. "I should see your setup..." It's over. Somehow it didn't seem as uncomfortable as before. When shespoke, her voice was quiet and caught me by surprise."I do like you, David," she said, and her smile was so genuine and shyand so quick I nearly missed it. "And yes. I think I do have the hotsfor Cindy."***K was hardly the first woman to call me a misogynist. They all did. I'mnot talking about the silly things I brought home from clubs or theoffice. Dumb as they were, they usually knew the score and I never ledthem on. With few.