‘Why did he come to you?’ ‘Oh God.’ sobbed the man, ‘I don’t know……I really don’t know.’ A nod from Snake and one of the henchmen ...tanding behind of the hanging man rose up his arm and brought the riding crop that was now in his hand down hard against the naked buttocks. The mans scream ran through Jerry’s body and he closed his eyes as he swallowed the bile that was starting to rise up in his own throat. ‘Wrong answer again slimeball.’ Again the crop hit down with a vicious suddenness, the. "Rodger! One of your nerdy fat friends is here."A couple of seconds later, a much shorter and 100 pounds heavier than Ben remembered Rodger came to the door. He was wearing a Star Wars T-shirt that stretched over his man boobs and belly. "Hey, Ben! Man, that was some party last night! I got it all on tape if you wanna come in and watch. I'm uploading it to the net now."The old woman who'd answered the door screamed, "Close the goddamn door, Rodger! I'm not paying to cool the fucking outside.". This was her standard practice. Unlike most women in her business, Kelly never asked for money up front. Her ‘lovers’ knew she charged five thousand dollars for a night in her bed. Once satisfied, they discretely placed the money on the plate on their way out. To some, it might seem that she could easily be cheated, but the men she entertained were unlikely to be so crass. Most of them were extremely wealthy. For such men, a few thousand dollars was a small price to pay for her skills. Even. Wuz doin' right well, thank y'all. This wuz late 1868, an' politics had reared its ugly head. U. S. Grant wuz the Republican Party nominee for president, and one of his campaign aims was ta protect niggers from Southern White persecution. Considerin' what the Democrats had ta offer, I planned ta support Grant.The problem wuz that the Ku Klux Klan wuz alive an' well in Missouri an' tryin' ta keep Grant from bein' elected. Since nearly all nigger men could vote and not all of the White male.