”“You got to work in her garden?” Krissy asked.“In a manner of speaking,” I replied with a grin.“Did she know you were fourteen?”“Not ...t first, but before we went to bed. She was conflicted, but decided she wanted to do it anyway. But she broke it off within a few weeks because she was very smart.”“Oh?”“I was developing feelings for her and there was just no way that could work. My mom wigged out when, a few years later, she became very suspicious because I walked that woman down the aisle for. " Old?!" Terry laughed. "Old?! You?! You gotta be kiddin'!" Then you don't think I'm an old lady?" God no! An old lady, my ass!" Terry blurted."Oh... well... I suppose I've been holding together fairly well for a thirty-six-year-old mother," she giggled."I guess you are holdin' together pretty well! You're beautiful!" Terry said, his eyes glittering strangely.Terry saw the playful smile on his mother's lovely face, but there was something about her expression that made him wonder if she might. On the fourth page he tells about a sickness that took his mother and nearly took him. “I „twas laid low and not well til I be six an' ten…beleeved it be Lord that punished me…tried hardly to stop…prade and prade.”The sixth page was all about what a wonderful man his father had been especially after his mother had died. He and his father had worked hard to make a living husbanding the animals on the farm.The next two pages tell about how his father had encouraged him to pursue a cousin to be. ”One of the surviving crew members of Bloom’s group said. “What of us now, are we to report to your ship?”I nodded. “That’s right. Go get everyone of your crew and report to the Silver Streak.”Har-Hi got up “I make sure they are properly accommodated.”Har-Hi proved just how strong he was as he shouldered the heavy money chest and he and Shea left followed by Blooms men. Just as I was sitting down at the Captain’s table, a representative of the Bassett family approached and said.“I am Kooornt.