Kyle joins them for his dinner before taking over the register to let the staff have their meals. He keeps an eye on his guests as he works and he not...ces all the children go to the games area when they finish eating and the adults continue to talk while watching the sports events on the television. He joins them when he can. Toward the end of the evening he notices Maria is absent, but Nick isn’t worried, so Kyle isn’t.It’s after 11:00 when the crowd is small enough they can encourage people. The barbecue, now ongoing, was difficult because although they were in close proximity to each other, they could not be seen to be physically touching because nobody knew of their affair and nobody could know. Kelly moved close to Trevor and stretched past him to get herself a burger, her perfume far more intoxicating to him than any alcohol that was available."Got to have you. You go home and I will come round to your house shortly," she instructed and her eyes met his in hope and in pleading.. A few times I hired out as nothin but a gun hand; always gave whoever I face an even chance, but it was killin for pay just the same. All the jobs had me usin my gun."Tyler stared up at the full moon for more than a minute with a somber look on his face and then he smiled. "I was in a saloon in San Antonio and a man standin next to me got a telegram. He couldn't read so the bartender read the wire to him. That's when I heard he was Josiah Reading, a hangman. I also heard he was goin to Uvalde. Time passed and it was about to hit 1 o clock. I had to go to the washroom. Did my business and came out. As I walked past the stairway, I heard a slapping noise downstairs. Something like skin hitting against each other, like if you hit your leg repeatedly. I looked around and all the room doors were closed but my brothers. I slowly walked downstairs, all the lights were off. The slapping noise slightly got louder. Suddenly I stepped my house the stairway made a small creak sound. The slapping.