”“I’ll have to think that over,” I admitted. “I can tell you one thing right now. I am not going to be your geek of the day.”“The job is...what is, as you are fond of saying,” she replied.“Then maybe the job isn’t for me,” I suggested.“Ed, I need you to do this for me,” she asked in a calm but hard voice.“I can’t do it reading second and third handed reports. I need some kind of status. I’ll be damned if I know what it can be?” I stated as calm as I could. It was frustrating to me that she just. Any person riding along the road was sure to be shot at, but there had been only three fatalities and two other woundings. Shit! I had to get going or I was going to let a lot of people down.I got as much detail as I could from the bartender, though that was not all that much. At least, I was very familiar with the road from my days as a shotgun guard on the stagecoach. I already knew the most likely places for an ambush, and I could ignore those places that did not offer enough cover to the. An hour later he was at his new job. There was a bar inside the hoteland he was its main attraction. They had him on display, at the end ofthe bar, with his enormous boobs protruding through twin cut-outs in thetiny top he was wearing. His legs were held apart by an ankle spreaderand cuffs, and he was naked from the waist down. The bartender was adusky fellow with a ready smile. He had been told all about Millie andwas able to answer questions for curious onlookers. Milton realized thathe. When it pulled up in front of AmeriGas I checked that there was no one I knew looking and kissed her a goodbye quickly. She was off to start her second day at work. I rode the loop of the shuttle and got back to the main road just in time to catch the other bus on its return trip."The first day in the big city for the wife?" The driver said, recognizing me."Something like that, she was nervous. I held her hand today." I said smiling at the prospect that she could end up my wife if all was as.