Let me show you why." With that, she had her horse take two steps forward. This lifted Ed Jones off the ground by his neck. Ethel had deliberately use... a simple knot to make the loop, since she did not want to break his neck prematurely. She let him hang there for about 20 seconds, not enough to kill him, but enough to make a strong impression.At the end of that time, she backed the horse up enough for Ed's feet to touch the ground. He had a bad rope burn on his neck. He was struggling to get. Visions of her nude sun bathing flashed through my mind. I chuckled as I asked, ‘Does everyone get the same floor show, or am I getting the special?’ She looked back at me than followed my gaze to the open shirt. With a smile, she answered, ‘I’m very, very picky about who I put on a show for. Most of the guys that come in here just leer and try to grab. I don’t like that at all. For some reason I feel you’re different, that I’d have to ask before you’d make a physical advance.’ I’d brought my. Did my talent extend to orbital positions? That would be interesting to discover.I was not going to jeopardize my raise by waffling over this 'Tom Wilshire'. He was not a terrorist or criminal. He would not be the first guy an agency wanted me to find for them. For instance, the FBI had requests in for my services. They just did not know what my service actually was. They just knew that HS had the ability to locate and to find whoever needed finding. Since I knew HS and the CIA were very. It was during the term of Connors 4 that the Right Party became the official political organization of the nation, selecting candidates for the various national offices that went on the official ballot used for all national elections. In 2054, three Blue states located on the Pacific Coast of the USA declared their intention of seceding from the nation. Negotiations between them and the national government failed, leading to a brief but decisive war, which left the three Blue states in.