As we get up to start to walk out of the office. The Commissioner says, Stop folks I was just joking the ticket is fine. Ive seen everything I wanted...to see. Ill see if I can get that money transfer to you as soon as possible. No guarantees it should be there within a week for sure. Rachel looks at him with a little anger. The Commissioner explains himself, You think youre the first one to make a proposal to a lottery winner. Most of them run out of the office as soon as I say that. Leaving. She only let it go on long enough to get interesting before turning to open an arched door at her back. She ushered me inside.The chamber into which Regina led me was like something out of Sheherazade, a fantasy seraglio of huge cushions and heavy d****s. It could have been day or night, as the windows were completely covered and the only illumination came from ranks of candles arrayed around the room. And oh what those candles illuminated!In the middle of the chamber, Virginia was tied. "If you'll just look under subparagraph B, Section 2, codicil XVIII, you will see that a cashier's check for $6,313 may be remitted--" I don't got no six thousand dollars lyin' around," she snorted derisively."Well, that only leaves one alternative," I said. "Is your husband around?" Nah, he's at work at the bottling plant," she said. "He won't be back until tonight." Well, then, that should give us plenty of time to handle the entire past due amount," I said. "Would you like to get started or. Still it looked interesting. I asked Mom to call again and see it maybe we could still go over one afternoon. When she got off the phone she told me that Mrs. Bradford had been a little bit ill. She wasn’t really sick or anything but she wasn’t feeling up to a party. However, she had invited Mom and me to drop by sometime. I asked Mom if I could get a Christmas gift for Mrs. Bradford. I think Mom was a little surprised, but she happily agreed. I wasn’t sure just what kind of gift to get, but.