Reposting or any otheruse of it is strictly prohibited without the express, written permission of thecopyright holder, except that it may be posted as...part of a review or posted toa free-access, noncommercial archive sites. DISCLAIMER: All characters are fictitious. Any resemblance to anyoneeither alive or dead is purely coincidental. Please!? Send me yourcomments!Email to ?Kirk? [email protected] A special thanks to Ted E. Bear for proofreading and editingthis chapter. His efforts are. The wind soon subsided.It was a closer call than Henry liked. “Are you OK?” he called out.“Yeah,” Seanix acknowledged, “But let’s not do that again.”“Right.”The two of them soon had the scrap in place. Henry had braced himself inside the hollow tupelo tree and was tracing the opening onto the plywood from the inside while Seanix traced it from the outside. The opening actually extended from just below the floor to well above the second story roof, though about seven feet from the floor it. Satisfied he had taken enough pictures he put his camera down, Lesley joined him at the cot side and their arms went round each others waists as they looked down on me. "Don't you think he makes the prettyest baby girl, Bill" Lesley giggled. "I've got to say that dress really suits him" he guffawed "the ribbon, the ringlets, those frilly socks and those cute baby shoes are really you, Dave, I don't think I have ever seen you in clothes that suit you so much" I hung my head in shame trying my. While he was doing that, the deputy that had been knocked unconscious was waking up. He looked around and said, "Who do I have to thank for keeping me alive?"Bud and I pointed at each other, making the guy smile. "Who cares, thank you both? I thought those guys were the real deal when they followed us up from the lobby. What the fuck is going on here anyway? What's the big deal about a couple of companies fighting over a government bid?"Bud said, "The bids in question are probably worth several.