We throw it in the river and it knocks the breath out of the fish. Ruby and me swim out and catch the big catfish and throw ‘em on the bank.” Kit ...xplained more about the explosive.“You had catfish up there too? We got lots of them here. Big ones too,” Little Eli said.“Yeah, we had some big ones up there too. We like the five to ten pounder’s best for cookin’ and eatin’ though,” Ruby told him.“We’ll have to get our daddies to let y’all show us how to do that. We all love to eat catfish and Tin. Gliding in the air breathing fresh old air and floating through the wet warm waters of vices drinking from the lips and from the lollipops seeing how they opened up and how they closed down slowly smoothly and softly scrubbing the skin caressing the skin sucking licking touching and fucking the skin rubbing one skin next to the other melting and moistening sweaty and salty this and that here and there up and down in and out now and then slow and fast soft and hard politely and harshly kindly. Ellen handed him a purse, andhe held it awkwardly in his hands until she told him gentlythat it was okay for him to carry a purse now. With thislast nail in Andrew's coffin, he followed them out thedoor, his old life gone forever.* * *Under prior arrangement with the court, Andrew was allowedto ride with his lawyer to the hearing, a police escortright behind them. It felt wonderful breathing fresh airagain through the open windows, although Andrew had toconstantly brush his new bangs out of his. When the tutor was cleared through the gate, he rode directly to the front door. The door was opened and he entered with very little fuss. So Burke had said there would be a housekeeper/cook in the house. I had plans for her as well. That is if she survived the next thirty minutes.The changing of the guard was due at any minute. I reminded Eve that anyone who rounded the corner or exited the rear door had to die, no exceptions. If the housekeeper or the tutor tried to run they were going to.