The Quebec player made his par putt before Dave followed the Manitoba player to the next tee. Dave pulled out his three-wood and looked down the hole....He pushed his tee deep into the ground with the ball on it before he chose his line. He aimed down the right rough and took a smooth full swing. The ball started out just left of his line and drew nicely into the fairway; he ended up on the left side of the fairway with ninety yards to the hole. The other two players hit decent drives with the. It had seemed longer to Gabe. His eyes centered on Erin.“I’m sorry,” he said, “I have no idea-”She shushed him, “I’m flattered, forget about it.”In truth she was offended as well, but she found Gabriel too charming tomake something of it.Gabriel was back in his matrix-room. There had been some offers of sending him home for the day, but he had declined. He’d feel just as miserable there and after his short time-out the knot in his stomach had gone already. Leaning on his elbows he was wondering. I felt mortified about what I did to Tasmine, so I avoided her. And Benthor knew I was hiding something, so I avoided him.We camped for the night next to a lake. I wasn't hungry, so I didn't eat any dinner with the others, instead preferring to leave them behind at the campfire. I went and sat on the bank of the lake, staring across its dark surface."We're going to talk," Gianna's voice came from behind me, jolting me out of my troubled thoughts. "No more avoiding me. You're going to tell me. Ralph spent most of the morning talking to Early and they discussed some possibilities and promised to set the wheels in motion within the hour.Early then made an appointment with a guy he had grown up with who was divorce lawyer and asked him to do whatever he could to divest himself of the slut and their marriage.Ralph called him on Wednesday morning asking him to come to his office as he had a proposition, which he felt would be of great interest to him.Early had always remained aloof from.