I told mom my figureenhancing items would be arriving in two days time.We finished our leisurely breakfast and went to our rooms to shower anddress. ... finished quickly and then went to mom's room as she had told tocome as soon as I was ready. I arrived in her room to see mom coming outthe bathroom. She wore only 2 towels, one around her body and anothercovering her hair."Sorry, Mom, shall I leave and wait for you in the sitting room?" My darling, it's fine, I want you to be here, just look. What does a woman need to read books about warfare for anyway?" Well they're making me think on a lot of things. First we're not safe yet, not by a long shot! As long as that last nightrider is out there we are in danger. What if he comes after us, or worse yet sends a whole bunch of bounty hunters after us? Or ... Or ... what if some of the ranchers notified the U.S. Marshals about what we did, and they are after us? Or both? Or ... or all three? We need to start making some big decisions. Hattie had been replaced by another of Flick’s beauties, a woman of about thirty. A product, like me, of a private school but, like Hattie, Phoebe was tall, svelte, elegant and absolutely gorgeous. Flick only employed classy beauties on the basis that the industry was run mainly by males and her ‘girls’ helped keep clients loyal. “The trouble with stage work,” said Flick one day over a glass of champagne in her office, “is that it keeps you from doing other stuff for too long and doesn’t pay. Slowly, carefully, he used the strength of his arms to inch his way into a sitting position. He had been draped, face up, over the crotch of the tree and even that slow movement caused his back muscles to scream at the abuse they had taken; and at the long period of unnatural strain caused his position. Shaking with strain, his face and hands drenched with cold sweat and his belly cramping with nausea, he looked at the carnage his wreck had caused.There was a swathe of mangled and ragged.