She could hardly believe this was even happening, but she also wasn't going to stop and ask what this was all about. Just as she felt one of his hands...move upwards under her shirt she heard a voice calling her name, damn. Lily really didn't want to stop now but she had to, she pulled away from Jake and with an apologetic look she moved away from him and left their little hiding place. The rest of the day she couldn't stop thinking about what had happened, she hadn't been able to catch Jake. Lots of boys were given the choicebetween prison and the military. "But this time," he continued, "we don't need more soldiers,we need more soldiers' girls! Particularly for the negroe servicemen." I gasped a little and he smiled and held up his palm. "Just socially of course," and I caught the look from thelieutenant right away of his doubt on that one but I didn't care. "You want me to be a girl, let's get this straight!" "Your'e excellent material," the lieutenant smiled,. The claim was filed months ago. No, I don’t see some vast conspiracy. Two unrelated events — one tragic, one puzzling.”“How big a claim is it?”“Fairly good-sized. Over 200 feet wide and more than a 1,000 feet long. It’s a Hill claim which means just what it sounds like.”I could sympathize with Autry’s uneasiness. Sometimes in our business a gut feeling was all there was to go on.Cayuse and I continued our visible patrols in the three saloons — upstairs and down. The three owners seemed to. The fatigue was more of the mind than of the body. At lunch I had eaten from the boat's supplies and talked to Megan and Sandy. They missed me but the girls at the table and one more nearby missed me even more.The girls wanted steak for supper and I was to pick it up. Sandra and Megan had to go to a school game. It wasn't compulsory but their friends went and it would look odd if she didn't. I encouraged them to keep their usual activities going.When I first entered the house I saw that.