A white cloud puffed in front of his face again as he brought the axe down on another unsplit log. His pale eyes glanced from beneath shaggy yellow lo...ks at the two woodpiles, cut and uncut; another hour of work at least. His tight muscles had only begun to warm beneath heavy skins and furs, and his axe continued to swing with ease. The packing and corralling of endless llamas ended with the coming of twilight, and his chore would last through dusk and into the night; a lifetime in the. "Call Louis and Sadie. Have them pick me up and we will be over in an hour. I think a Hounfort is in order," the old woman said with determination. Matilda sat and sipped on a cup of green tea and waited. She was quite sure that her Aunt would want to do something drastic to avenge Hattie's insult. Matilda had her own agenda and it did not involve physical injury to the boys, just a strong lesson. Just a short time in dresses to feel how it is to be on the receiving end of some jerk's bigoted. "I will be happy to go, Henry. If I took a few days off before I could visit my cousins in Boston on the way. Would it be ok if I get Shelley to book me with a stopover there?" It was a spur of the moment idea."Perfectly alright." He waved his hands casually as if giving a benediction. "Just make sure you are in Denver for the 30th."It was my great grandfather's brother, who emigrated to the States in nineteen twenty-three. In those years emigrating was a usually a journey into the unknown. It. By the time they got to the hanger Bob had a new friend. He was told to wait in the plane as everybody else got out and it was pushed into the hanger. The news chopper was still circling above them. Once the helicopter was inside, though, the other one peeled off and flew back toward the hospital.Half an hour later Bob had six new friends. Betty gave her car keys to one of them, who went and got the car, driving it off right under the noses of the news crews that were still at the hospital.