Thursday and Friday dragged by. Saturday we had a home match against some other school. I don't remember who. We won, but little thanks to me, I was a...ful, dropping passes and missing tackles that I would normally have eaten up. If substitutes had been allowed back then, the coach would have taken me off at half time. Instead I got a real roasting and even the team looked at me with veiled anger in their eyes. Everyone can have a off-day but they could see I wasn't focussed - wasn't really. ." Jeremy started before his mind caught up and he figured it out. These two got in touch with an attorney and an accountant on a Saturday morning. I had to wait a week to get an appointment with an attorney. I guess money does talk.Jeff basically knew what Jeremy was thinking and fought back a grin. I wonder what he would think of Frank's version of having an attorney and accountant to hand is? He just takes a couple of each with him when he thinks they might be needed. You can bet he has at. I was glad we didn’t have to load the damn lumber onto the mules anymore. It was still well before mid-morning when we headed west along the Indian trail. Our ropes were coiled again, and I’d shown each of the slaves yesterday how to load the .38 caliber longrifles they had brought, even giving them an hour’s training firing the rifles. After an hour, Isum and Jimmey could hit a man-sized target at fifty feet. Sallie and Cisley could, too, but the other three girls had to be within twenty-five. ‘Thought I’d never see the day when the boss sat down on the floor.’ ‘Shut up.’ He laughed. The floor was hard and cold, and the New York winter wasn’t getting much better. I had to remind myself to remind Chester the janitor to fix the heater one day, if I could get out of here. The minutes ticked by. First James called a few other people, telling them we were trapped but would come out, soon. Until then, they had to wait.James sat down beside me and sighed. He looked into my eyes.‘You have.