However, once I reached home, I realized that I had forgotten the keys in the office itself. I called up my office and asked them to send the office b...y with the keys to me. But since he had gone to get some snacks the receptionist said that it’d take at least 45 minutes. I cursed myself for being so absent minded and was strolling around my car in the parking.Just then a lady in her mid 30’s walked across and asked me if there was any problem. I told her what it was and she smiled at me and. The sun was going down. It was time to set up my bed, start the fire and make some supper.I lay out my ground cloth and rubber mat, then lay out my blankets. The little poly tarp was hung at the back of the shelter to pull over me when it got cold as it would hold in a warm air blanket about me, yet moisture would penetrate the weave and not leave me soaked from perspiration. I had learned this trick many years before when camping with nothing but a pad, an army wool blanket and an ugly bright. " I thought you two are supposed to be on your host's side," Ryan mentally protested."We are," Alice assured him. "We know how much you two like make-up sex, so we are supplying a spat for you to make-up over," she explained happily."Now is not the time!" Kim mentally growled at the Companions. "We are about to meet Élan Dahl! This man, single-handedly, is pioneering civilian space travel." I think he had a little help along the way," Ryan pointed out a little drily. "He's just the money man.". The jayhawkers could see the rifle, but they could not conceive of Billy having more than one bullet at his disposal. Even the 15 seconds required to change cylinders was not enough time to put Billy out of action.There were only four men left out of the original 19 by the time Billy's rifle was empty, and they took off for Kansas when Billy put up his now empty rifle and pulled a Colt. Billy charged after the retreating jayhawkers, but he only went about 100 yards down their path before.