James booked the first available appointment.The next day he got into the car, entered the destination, then sat back and closed his eyes. He was drea...ing when the car pinged him, telling him he had arrived. He got out and walked into the office, where a lady of indeterminate age greeted him. She might have been 30 years old ... or 55 ... it was hard to say with all of the makeup. He noticed the slightest crinkling around the eyes, still not any indicator of her age.She looked up from her. “I figured. You boys been kind of antsy lately. Got any idea where you’re going?”“We think we might like to see Colorado, see if every creek up there is really filled with gold.”He frowned a little but didn’t say anything. He paid us wages just like the regular hands and we’d saved a mite up. Almost three hundred each. That was more than most cowboys make in a year. Pa bought the two horses we had brought back, and we sold the fancy pistols for eighty dollars. There was a silver mounted saddle. .'I had gripped Charlie's hand to keep him from choking me to death, I could barely get enough air down my wind pipe to sustain me. Charlie whispered very softly into my ear '...pull your pants and drawers down and be very quiet...'I could not see what the people was doing, but I heard them speaking, up where we were it sounded like a bunch of adults mumbling and joking around. Charlie would raise his head up high enough to peer over the rail from time to time all the time holding my head down. . dose it matter?”Winston stared back; “Hhu, well, if you can get through to emergencies on your phone, I would really appreciate it Kate; I’m stranded here for now! Ask for any help they can give us; Ok!”“Shure thing; my phone’s in the camper; come-on Guy!”... Kate had learned from her efforts on the phone that Grand Bemuda was in a state of emergency; that any help would be a long time coming! Some places on the Island were already devastated and more was expected before the storm was.