He understands he’s being talked about. He grins and raises his free arm, opening and closing his fingers at her.“Oooooo, whadda doll! When I star... bein’ a mom, I want two of those.”“Lord, no you don’t. One’s plenty...” I retorted. Randall tilted his head against mine. I’d add ‘as if to say’, but by this stage of the game, I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s communicating with that head tilt, along with the stream of babble.“He’s so god-awful CUTE!” Laney said.Randall giggled for her.“I’ll wait. One was afoot, legs wide spread, while the other sat his horse right across the road, pointing a big bore gun at us. The mules stopped without my command and stood breathing hard, ears flapping. The man on the ground came and held the harness."What'cha carrying?" he asked."House goods," I said, "Lady's clothes and such." Why'nt cha git down," he said, pointing his pistol up at me. The man on the horse held a short musket of some sort, a shotgun perhaps or carbine. They both appeared to be very. . oops, sorry Roycealee,” he apologized. “Sounds like kids are involved, too. Bull’s sports teams, maybe former teams. Likely that dog’s been huntin’ for a while.”“We’ll probably know tomorrow or the day after,” Rule told them. “Bet there’ll be a pot full of high-priced, slick Yankee lawyers turning up real soon. Let’s throw them off by acting like a bunch of slow country rednecks.”He turned to Roycealee and said, “When you get back to the school make copies of anything you can. Then give the. We were allowed to walk on the beach only with another couple or a person staying at the house. We had to be in by 9:30. No one was allowed to go anywhere with someone outside of the house in an automobile. The rules were strict and had to be followed or their parents would be called to come pick them up. After the boys would leave the girls would get together and talk about ‘who did what’ during the day and at night on their beach walk with their boyfriends. I felt left out as the girls talked.