"How much did you see?" she asked."Um, well, we were kind of surprised, you know, seeing you and John together, and kind of in shock when it was obvio...s it was all three of you." How much?" Well, I, um, well..." I sighed. "All of it, I guess. Unless you kept going after John's first, um..." Enough, I get the idea." Her hands dropped from her face, and I could see the hurt in her eyes. "I'm disappointed in you, Brody. What I do in private is my own business, not yours, unless you are directly. Tee hee, I'm dark and mysterious (giggle).An opened zipper bag lays open on the kitchen table with a dozen or sobrightly-wrapped lollipops spilled out. I reach down to scour throughthem to see what the wrappers say. One called Barefoot And Pregnantlooks promising, as does the Ditzy Bimbo one, too. They click andjumble as I move them around. There's one called Brand New Man.Thinking back on Chloe's idea that I needed to trust her gave me anidea. Yea, two can play that game. She can do the. I tried to reassure them that I knew what I was doing. I could tell that they thought that I was crazy, but they loved and respected me enough to go along with my wishes.We had traveled quite a distance and had crossed several rivers, some of them large. Fortunately, the cart was also a very effective boat and we were able to cross the rivers without undue difficulty. It was getting late in the traveling season, and I was in a hurry to reach my old village, so, when we reached the edge of the. We proposed to pay:$100 to every first round loser,$225 to every first round winner,$375 to every second round winner,$550 to both third round winners, and$750 to the champion.Since pretty good bikinis were less than fifty bucks, we thought we could recruit enough girls to fill all the spots. Two girls were going to walk away with $600, one would get $1,150, and the champion was going to make $1,900. We thought there was enough cash on the table to make everyone work hard to win. The problem.