The watches she had pilfered went smoothly and quickly into thehollowed-out heel in her cowboy boots. The ear rings, into the falsebottom of her purse... The necklace fit nicely in the hidden compartmentin her belt buckle. After calming herself for a few moments, ensuring noone else had entered, she flushed the toilet to keep her cover and thenproceeded to the sink to wash. As she dried her hands, she looked in themirror. She wasn't proud of what she saw. What Donna did see was her close. I must pay you..." Maya stopped him.The man looked back and smiled. "A smile from the daughter of a man I honor most in my life is the greatest payment I can receive."Maya blushed, then smiled warmly. "At least tell me your name..."The man turned around and wrapped the dark cloak around his body. "Don't hate him, Miss Murdock ... Your father was a great man..." Then he made his way to the door.Maya sat on her seat for a while. The thought of his father bothered her. Her father was the one who. Wilson look a little concern and said, “You ever heard of dat party he ran under.”The Colonel shook his head and replied, “Democratic, oh it’s some mess that man created. I just happy he has a sizeable plantation and he won’t mess with our way of life.”Mr. Wilson hung his head a said, “I have such a hard time keepin my stock. Them slave catcher always bringing by my people all tore up. The ain’t worth selling all I wanna do is put dem down. I treat dem well; I just don’t understand.”“I knows. He saw a seagull soar by outside. He could hear aneasy breeze rustling a flag somewhere nearby muted by something in hisears and he realized there were ear buds in them. He must have beenlistening to music when he went to sleep.He could move his hands now but they too felt strange. He felt panic whenhe realized he must have been in an accident and was in a hospitalsomewhere. But he thought of the chicken again and how could he have beenin an accident if his car didn't work? Or maybe it was all.