32, and .38 rifles. They were happy to do that for me and I was happy for them to do it.I stayed at home with my family for two weeks, and then told t...em that I needed to go and work some more on the factory.They all packed up everything they wanted to take and closed up the house. We drove the stock with us. Joe and Fireball were making up into pretty good wrangling horses.We got to Smith's in three days and set up our camp where the stock could graze. Jack kept Swan company, and helped with. Both girls had their hair back in ponytails, Steph’s straight and blonde, Vicky’s in tight brown curls. They both beamed when he approached.“Uncle Cal!” they chorused gleefully, both giving him a hug simultaneously. Steph kissed his cheek, and to his surprise Vicky did as well.“Hey, whoa. I had no idea I was so popular. Welcome to my humble abode, girlies. How was the flight?” He put their bags by the hallway leading to the bedrooms and led them back through the kitchen to the room where he’d. Sometime during the night they fell back asleep, and Tom joined them.It was mid-afternoon on the third day when the train pulled into Baltimore. It was the end of the line for the B&O railroad. Tom watched the activity through the boards making up the freight car. He motioned to the Stock car that was riding just in back of them and sent some complicated hand signals to Luke. He nodded his understanding, and that they would stay put in the car until Tom ordered them to leave.Once in the train. I was terrified he would find out and think I’d split on him. I skipped out one night with stitches poking out of my face and all I had in a plastic bag. I hitched down here to Jan. I got jobs in burger bars and takeaway places, working double shifts till I saved enough for a deposit on my own place. ‘About a year later, a couple of the lads showed up. I was fucking shitting myself, thought I was going to be dead in a ditch with my face slashed to ribbons. But then I saw one of the lads was.