? Brenda said as she moved down the short hall noting there were two small cabins and one master cabin. She stepped into the huge cabin with round wal...s of the small redwood. There was a large bed built into the far wall. She glanced at the dressers and cupboards also built into the walls. The shapely woman wandered around the room, searching it with her eyes. Her eyes stopped at the base of the bed. There was a secret drawer that was not completely closed. She knelt down and pulled it open. . "The half Indian with the penetrating eyes pulled a mail pouch from inside his jacket and tossed it on Brett's desk with a smirk on his face."I done read that thing already, sheriff. It looks like the Governor has every confidence in your ability to get this thing done by your lonesome self."The packet did say exactly that but it also included the authority to hire a force of four additional deputies who would be funded by the state law enforcement department until the range war was cleared up. It was jammed with people but no one I knew, or at least no one I recognized. It was hard to tell with the costumes. I had a beer standing at the bar, cold and sharp as October, sucked foam from my moustache and looked at the girls talking to the guys, the long gowns, fairy outfits, brides of Frankenstein, the guys with full face masks, the Freddy Kreugers, homicidal maniacs. Katzenjammer’s is a drinker’s bar, old, high ceilinged, and well lit. Everywhere eyes looking, peering through masks,. General Mobana had eight women slaves in all, Swedish blonde type, elegant Orientals’ big bosomed Africans; a whole collection of female forms.Madam Chui their slave master had explained that although Rachael was in the president’s personal harem she like the other girls could be expected to service visiting dignitaries and whoever else the governing family decreed. Rachael was grateful the general’s reputation held Madam Chui and the most lustful of his aides back. Even his son had not dared.