“Pleased to make your acquaintance Mr. Latham.” Clete smiled and shook his hand.“Likewise Mr. Hawkins. We laughed at Leamon when he said you too... his money last night, he usually takes ours when we play.” The man never smiled as he looked the kid over.“Clete, this is William Hogan, he too is a rancher and owns almost four thousand acres that joins Franks spread south of town about ten miles.”“Pleased to meet you Mr. Hogan,” Clete said to the short fat man with the bald head.“Likewise as well. George turns back around and continues toward his car. ‘What does that bitch want . . . a reward?’ he says to himself and continues on, slightly picking up his pace. When he gets to Ursuline Avenue he turns right. He looks again over his shoulder for the young woman. She is still walking slowly almost a full block behind him. He gets to his car, unlocks the door and stands next to the open door. He watches for her to appear at the corner. When she does, she also turns right, walks one block and. Love me, or I’ll move out tomorrow. I’ve had a really good offer from a station three states away. If you don’t want me, I’ll be gone in two weeks. Time to decide.”She was quivering, tears threatening to spill out, as she waited for my answer. I tried to look as serious as I could. “I have conditions. I’m not sleeping with a bunch of stuffed animals. You need to pick a bedroom out after your folks leave, and decorate it for a little girl, and put them on her bed. I think our first daughter will. She wanted all the glory and all the money so she experimented. The experiments produced one mindreader for every ten to twelve failures. The rest were dead, crazy, fucked up or the drug had no effect on them. She let the ones with nothing changed go, but soon she tried to kill those too. Witnesses she did not want.I was and am an eager beaver. A good thing to say about a Canadian girl with connotations of legs spreading wide for everybody. I took care of those that survived. We learned a lot.