"W-what?" I stammered."Don't give me that innocent look," she said sternly, "my girlfriends have been giving you the eye all afternoon and you've tota...ly ignored them."It was true that three of her friends have been over that afternoon in their skimpy outfits to take advantage of the late summer sun, but I had tried to keep out of their way."You've been giving them that sultry look you're so good at," she said, "then you leave them all hot at bothered." What are you on about?" I inquired, "I've. But first things first.I said, "I don't suppose you can do what I did and make it open and close, can you?" I've never really thought about it," he said.I could believe that to be true. I wondered if he ever really thought about anything."Well, give it a go," I encouraged him. "You never know when it might... er... prove useful."He grinned like he enjoyed the challenge and I saw the flimsy rim of it open slightly as if to beckon me in and then ruckle outwards as he squeezed it tightly shut.He. She had accidentally locked herself out of her hotel room after a wild party in the bar some hours earlier, and been unlucky enough to have been spotted by a jealous colleague, who had then bribed a corrupt police captain to have her arrested and chained in the yard of his police station for over a month, naked and exposed to the cold of the night and the heat of the day, all the while being secretly filmed so that her humiliation might one day amuse a wider public.As she gradually emerged from. I'm getting too old to run around any more than I have to. Marshal John Black gave you a solid endorsement. I'm not asking your age and you're not volunteering the information, so I am ready to make the appointment permanent if I can talk you into taking the job." Yes, Sir, I'll take the job if it won't interfere with my regular job of killing wild hogs." No, I don't think that it would. Mostly, it will be an occasional delivery of court papers and rarely a job like this one. From what Marshal.