( who I later learned was her Mother in Law). I could hear her the older lady speak in gujrati and younger lady would reply in English. The kid was si...ting rite beside me and I gave him a sheepish smile. Just then the older lady turned to me and asked if I was going to India. I replied in the affirmative and also found out that they were on the same flight as mine on my way home. I was seriously not in a mood for a random conversation then, and thankfully we arrived at the hotel soon. I noticed. " Not my fault. Is your father-in-law around?" No. He took about two dozen Merino lambs into Roma." Oh. Do you know if the band's over by the creek?" They were last week. Why?" I need to send a message. Could you drive over?" One of us can. But there's a price." What?" I need to know how the art critic's doin'." She's fine. She's off at an opening right now." When will you have a kid?" We're practicing." Right. So what's the message?" It's to the band around Lake Constance in the Diamantina. My. You good folks have built a hamlet from the wilderness, a town from a hamlet. Next stop ... the City of Little River in the great state of Montana!”The tuba blatted out some noise and there was some polite applause.Reverend Venerable and his twelve Deacons looked on from across the street.After the Territory speechifying, Marshal Autry talked to me and Cayuse about the importance of appearances when facing down the criminal element. “It’s not enough to just put them in jail; you got to look. It was beautiful, life incarnate, the natural habitat a man was meantfor, such a contrast to the cold sterile death that flowed through thehalls of the hospital.I'd done something good today. I'd helped a lot of people, made up forwhat happened with Hutchison and Julia to some extent.I also had to pee, I realized. And I lacked a penis to do it with. Whichwould mean squatting. Damn.Well, it was something I would just have to get used to. I was a womanand sitting to piss with the territory.I.