Mark grinned at him and said calmly, "I learned a few things while I was overseas." A smile came across the bartender's face as he pulled his hand bac... and looked at his fingers with mock surprise. "You a vet?" Mark shook his head. "No, not quite that big a deal. Just a traveller. Thailand. Six months solid. Learned a lot of things." The bartender looked at Kerrie, his eyes caught the two gold earrings in her left earlobe and the small stud in her nose. She watched him as his eyes went from her. This mydarling is the very Eve of Christmas joy, and becauseyou disregard that fact, I have come to help you.Christine I have come in love so that you will not alsobear the painful fruits of evil that we weaved forourselves in our greed.” “Our disregard for our fellow man, woman or child isthe sin of our greed. Look upon me my love, see thechain I carry, I made through my own culpability, yesthis onus is the result of my many misdeeds to ourfellow man. Each link I forged as I. " I told my story, with Sally and Sue adding to the parts that they had in it. After I finished Billie said "When we get back to Nevada, I am going to piss on those bastards." Nothing about the aliens, nothing about me being a 53 year old grandfather.Billie got up, straddled my lap, kissed my face and said, "I am so glad the son of a bitch was a bad shot." She went over to Sally and Sue and kissed them both. "Thank you for protecting our man." You're almost as bad as Mike," Sue said. "I know I. We were not going to shoot first unless they forced it, but we were going to be ready for any trouble that might show up.Hannah, Amy Sue, and Johnny were sent to hide in the sturdiest of our wagons. Johnny had his pistol, so he was well prepared to defend himself and the girls as long as they stayed below the lip of the wall of the wagon bed. The rest of us took up our Henry rifles and crawled under the wagons. Under the wagons was a good place to be as long as the attackers stayed on their.