“In the can!” said Terry, “We’d better go and sort her out.”They dispersed according to a well rehearsed plan, the two men going round the o...tside of the house to come up silently behind the woman, while Jeanette, with Judy behind her, went to the front door. Jeanette shouted through the closed door.“Yes?”“I’m looking for Victor Freeman,” came the reply.“Take four steps back and put your bag down on the path.”The woman looked puzzled, but did as she was asked.“Now come forward again, leaving. I was really a man.I heard shouting and the wagon came to a sudden stop. In a fewmoments my mother burst in. "Danger, Franz, Otto has seen someriders in the distance coming our way. He thinks they willovertake us in less than an hour. It may be the rebels." "I willhave to hide." I looked round. My mother shook her head. "Thereis no place to hide here, and anyway, you are now a girl, indeedyou are perfectly disguised, except you are wearing maleclothing. You should get it off and hide it, and we. “I don’t need any tall tales told on me, I was just doin my job,” Tom said as he eased off the porch into the street.“Need them or not, you gonna get them now Injun,” Bat told him.“I need a cool drink of water, I’ll be right back,” Tom said as he walked across to the Dodge House.“That’s one man I’d never want to face me with his guns or his fist.” Cal told Bat.“You think he’s really that good with his fists?”“He ducked under that man’s left and hit him so fast, not many in there even knew what. . difficult for me to relax completely around others." But aren't you relaxed with me?" she asked."My love, there is but a single part of my body that is not relaxed in your company, and even that has succumbed now," he said dryly."Carlos, you actually called me 'my love!' Am I really? Your love?"It was too dark for her to see his smile, but she knew it was there. "Do not expect me to say such things often," he said. "Not often enough, I am sure. But yes, you are—and of that I am also sure."She.