They paid the clerk and then he directed them to a door with a sword painted on the front. After they went in an older woman I hadn't noticed came up ...longside me."Two going in. Want to join me?" she asked."Um," I said, confused.She took my hand. "Come on, they're cute. Should be fun."I followed the woman, who I guessed to be in her thirties, to the front counter. She dropped a twenty dollar bill on it and then both she and the clerk looked at me.I fished a $20 out of my purse and dropped it. Now why don't you just hold that pistol by two fingers and bring it over here to me real careful like?"The now sweating cowboy licked his lips and began to move slowly toward Sam. When he got about three feet away Sam held his left hand out and gently took the young man's pistol. He handed the pistol to Dove and carefully frisked the man down. Sam stepped back and said, "Ok now. Why don't you just start walking down the street away from the station there? You keep going until you're at least. I guess he was taking a breather. Sometimes I know he tires more easily than at other times: his meds I think,” said Candace.“Yes, that is a true thing. But he usually shakes it off after a short time,” said Marian.“I heard you say that you think you love him. You also said he wasn’t much of a lover. You need to figure out a way to reassure him about those two things, especially those two things,” said Candace. Marian nodded.“Oh boy. Okay, thanks for the heads up,” she said.“No problem, the. All he needed was to get under the dresser's edgesand he figured moving it out of the way meant he wouldn't have to do thatagain for a long time.Behind it was a small access hatch. He looked at it for a minute and thenstooped and pulled on the handle. The little door snapped open, as thoughsomething pressed on it from inside the wall. It wouldn't latch when hepushed back. Ben examined the hinges and decided they were shimmed tootight.He was surprised that he could see in about three feet -- he.