. ?"Who indeed, I thought disjointedly. Son of a gun."Do you know what else I've done?"He shook his head and I filled in my life's story, short a coup...e of details. Like Griff. Only, Cory didn't have Griff then, did he? The other ones then. I also held back on the Rambone too, only shit, Cory hadn't bought that either. I'm messing up my story here. (Read Riding the Rambone if you want to know what I'm talking about.) Still, Ricky was stunned."In the road?" he exclaimed. It took a moment to. Sultry looked at the gods personified and said, "You guys! Sheesh! No wonder the human race is so screwed up ... but you're right. We can't take the chance. If you thought it so did they."She turned to the gang, "Two per decoy ... go!"There was a little confusion but sides were finally chosen and the pairs took off."Wait! Come back!" Cassie shouted. "You're invisible!" Picky, picky, picky," Sultry said. She did things with the watch and everybody appeared in the present time and Chaos. "Ok .... Plan accordingly.A few days after we returned, I got another note from the Society. I wasto go to the clinic at ten o'clock on Friday. Everything was going sowell, I hoped it wasn't bad news. As before, I rang the bell andresponded to the woman's voice on the intercom. The door clicked open andI proceeded to the reception area. Nothing had changed. I took a seat. A few minutes later the same woman I met with before came out. "Goodmorning," she greeted me and held the door open. Inside. A white straw hat with a red ribbon and bow completed the picture.In each of the seven classrooms there were double desks and folding bench seats fortwenty two girls and a large desk for the teacher, of whom five were men from the finestuniversities and two were ladies from Yale.Each class room had a hook above the teachers desk and on it hung a “regulation” canemade from the finest rattan, again imported from New York. Girls were caned for theslightest infringements of rules or even talking in.