It took me a few of these visit before I realized that the colonel's lady was having sex with the men she was seeing, all of them, sometimes two or th...ee a day. She would emerge after a half-hour or so, a bit flushed, but almost every hair and ruffle in place, cock an eyebrow and nod to me, remount from my linked hands and kick her horse, and we would gallop back to her stout husband or off to another coupling without a word to each other.One day, after four or five of these assignations in the. “Hello Mrs. McCarthy. I was passing by and thought I’d say hello.”“Jerry, what a nice surprise! Do come in and have a seat on the sofa. I’ll get you a soda.”She returned with the refreshments, sat beside me and asked:“Tell me what you’ve been doing? How are your parents? Are you going to college? Do you have a girlfriend?”I answered all her questions and asked if she was doing alright. She said yes but that the big house felt lonely with her husband on the road a lot and Kathy and Billy away at. A pack of failed gold miners attacked us when we were crossing a minor river in the lowlands and we made short work of them leaving their lifeless bodies to warn other thieves that our caravan was not one of the defenseless trains from back east that depended on the grace of God to see them through the rough patches.Mistress Molly admonished me that my attitude was not very “Christian” and I did my best to hide my amusement because it was generous under the circumstances and I knew that all of. His stomach heaved and his eyes blurred. Reaching for the door handle, he shouted, “Stop the car!”The driver put on the brakes as Ed opened the door and tumbled out of the still moving car onto the street. Crawling to the side of the road, he started vomiting in response to the evil that he had just seen. As the others gathered around him, he pointed in the direction of the building and shouted, “There! That building!”Looking in the direction that Ed was pointing, Vanessa asked, “What? The old.