I quickly stood up upon the bottom rung of the bar stool in order to grab some napkins from the center of the island. I frantically started to mop up ...he milk as it was running on a direct course for my lap. I manage to stop the flood just before it ran off the table."Dam!" the voice behind me called out again.I froze still hovering over the counter, having forgotten in my panic to clean up the milk that someone was behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw my cousin leaning in the doorway,. I nodded, Miss Burgess, there was a sign. She placed her hand along side my face, she stepped closer, I'll keep an eye out for it. She smiled, Miss Burgess wasn't by any stretch of the imagination a pretty woman, she was tall, rather athletic, just short of mannish looking. She was a drinker, I caught a faint air of Alcohol but that wasn't my focus, my focus was her hand that went from the side of my face to my hip. I felt her step closer. Tyrell, she said softly, listen, this can stay. Had it not been for you, I would never have seen the light. My men have killed Elric and now they are chasing after Jondra. Soon her head would be brought to me on a spear." The forbidden goddess is real." High Priestess Ebora looked up at him with a look of pride. "The temple still stands as it has stood for centuries. If there was a deity more powerful than the forbidden goddess, then that temple would not be standing!" she said as she turned around to admire the stone structure.Suddenly, the. Not many of the Kiowas escaped, and we counted 23 dead Indians, including the one war chief.We rode up to the house and were greeted with cries of welcome. Josh and I waited while the people on the roofs came down through the house and barn. There was a glorious few minutes of handshakes and back slapping by the males and hugs by the females. It turned out that Tom and Mary Jefferson and their daughter Helen had been on the roof of the house and their two sons, Jack and John, and occupied the.