Chapter 25The train was rocking along, and the rhythm was pleasant, almost soothing. Pam dried her hands, slung her bag over her shoulder, opened the ...oor and stepped out of the tiny lavatory, turned around to head back to her seat and found herself mashed up against somebody."Excuse me," he said. It was a man. They were face to face and their bodies were pressed together, jammed on either side by the tight walls of the narrow train car. She could feel her breasts flattened into his chest. She. This will be our ... fourth night? Fifth night, Rhee?”“Fourth, I think.”As she had already dropped her end of the mattress, Civia tentatively stepped past the mattress up to me and looked around the back yard. The sun would still be up for another hour or so, which I think had Civia unnerved more than anything else.Rhee said, “See, Civia, the only part of any house that we can see from here is the roof of that one. There aren’t any gaps between the slats, so there isn’t any way for anyone. I won’t fight you.”Jim laughed and said, “I just wanted to thank you for what you said to Sherry. Never in a million years did either of us think that you would do what you did tonight. She was genuinely touched.”Ed answered, “It was nothing compared to the damage that I’ve done a thousand times in the past.”Jim shook his head and said, “I wouldn’t say that. You said several important things tonight. Things that she needed to hear from someone besides me.”Ed said, “If you ever need something,. If Donna and Connie followed past practice it would be Connie's car. If neither woman drove it would have to be Curtis's car. Then I would phone the hotline and initiate the bust. The biggest risk to me was not to get caught planting the drugs and somehow not be tainted by any ensuing investigation. And timing would be a critical."So what do you think Trev?" That's pretty ambitious, Ken." He said slowly. "Do you really want to take it that far?" I don't think there is any other way. And I want.