He opened the door to find the shop in a shambles. Danny was lying bloody and beaten on the floor behind the counter. Mickey shook him awake and asked...what had happened."They took her." Kat?" Danny nodded. "Who? Where? Fuckin' tell me something." Sor...sorry Mick. Some big fuck put a rag over her face. She was fightin' them but passed out. Then two of them beat me around. Said to tell you Teddy O'Rourke was having his revenge." Oh fuck. Chloroform. Revenge. What else?" Mick, they said, if you. "OK, you now have nine minutes, get on with it." I snapped back."I was so distraught over the situation that I cried on Betty's shoulder every day. I was so jealous of their apparent ease in having children. I used to tell her how wonderful it must be to have a virile man like Brian to make babies with." Kim said."Betty finally came to me and said she and Brian had decided to offer me the greatest gift in the world. Betty offered me the use of Brian to make a baby. Brian was not for it. She kicked the big horse and off we went, tearing up clods of dirt, and skidding onto a narrow trail that wound more or less northwest. George was in the lead briefly, but then the woman and our lieutenant passed him, bent over their mounts' necks and flicking quirts at the beasts' flanks."Damn'me," George said, reining up beside me, "ever see the like?"I shook my head just as George's tired mount put his foot in a gopher hole and tossed his rider, coming up lame. I stopped and watched George. But, if you figure that we're going to have to ante up ten grand for the television surveillance, and maybe five to support Heather there for three months, it's not really a bad deal, especially since it gives us something to do with Heather for a while." Oh, I'll agree, the money is green," Harris said. "And, if we keep Heather on the office staff account, we can double-dip her paychecks and deposit one in Switzerland, so realistically, our net take is closer to twenty than it is to fifteen..