I also made sure I was still headed for London.Late into the night, it started raining again, but I pressed on until I couldn’t keep my eyes open an... longer. I led the horses up a small creek to help hide the spot where we left the road and stopped about a mile from the road in a copse of trees that kept most of the rain out. Taking the saddlebags with me, Sniffy and I crawled under a pine whose branches dragged the ground. After changing the dressing on my wound, I was out for the night.The. I left everything behind but my gun as I crept up behind Ablic's selection. It stuck the muzzle in his back and said, "My friend, I have a proposition to offer you. That is a gun muzzle you feel in your back and my finger is on the trigger. Don't make any sudden moves or I might be jostled into pulling the trigger. I am one of the people you are hunting, and I want you to come along with me. I think that you will like the result if you do join me."As any sensible marine would do under the. The outer walls were made of stone, collinades rising to the ceiling and framing the scene outside in beautiful pinks, browns, and tans swirling and folding in on each other, layer after layer rising upwards in a spiral of soft-hued granite.Turning, I pinch the ladder and it ascends up and between my fingers, becoming once again the charm that I had secured to my wrist, the glint of blueish light the only indication of the potential hidden within it's form.Jumping down and onto the plush. " To be honest, I haven't felt like joining you guys. I'm still a little groggy over Gloria's leaving and I'm a little ashamed about the way I used you Donna." I have heard that confession is good for the soul, but I felt like crap telling her that.Donna smiled at me and said, "Don't worry about it, I don't. I knew why you wanted Jim to introduce us. Your eyes kept glancing at Gloria and I realized then that she was who you were after." When she finished, she laughed at the look on my face..