I fired off a shot with my pistol, not because I expected to hit him, but because I wanted to fluster him and slow down his reloading. It seemed to wo...k, because he finally just dropped his rifle and turned to run. Well, no man is going to outrun a horse in that short distance, so I quickly caught up to him. My horse was well trained, so I was able to direct the horse to bump the running man with his shoulder. This knocked the man flying and I was able to stop and aim my gun at him before he. Derrick could hear the panic in Karen's voice, and knew something was wrong. When she hung up the phone she looked at Derrick. "It's Jim. The ambulance just took him to the emergency room. Kathy thinks he had a heart attack. Quick, we got to get there."Karen consoled her sister, while Megan and Jason sat quietly on the sofa in the waiting room as the doctors tended to Jim. About twenty minutes later, a doctor came out to see Kathy. "Mrs. Parker, hello I am Dr. Nelson. Your husband has had a. Right?"Nodding my head yes, I also told her that I thought beauty contests werenothing more than glorified peep shows, then waited for the inevitableharangue about what I had said."I knew that Ann, and that's why Jill and I gave you so many chances toback out. Losing the money would have been hard, and if you didn't wantto do this, all you had to do was say no. You didn't, so Jill made thearrangements for those alterations, and even paid for them. Since weboth knew, or at least felt that you. Hang on a sec." He ran over to the truck and pulled a map. "Bill, how far away do you think it is?" Pretty far. There's a lake over there and it's on the other side of the lake." Okay, I have an idea as to location. Come on down. I will tell the Colonel what you saw and that we're going to investigate." He left me and ran toward the Colonel's office. He came back without the HT. "I gave the HT to the Colonel so he can talk to us and get a real time report. I changed frequencies to the better.