Marie had not really noticed before, but another concession had been made. A second horse had been left behind by the other warriors! It was one they ...ad taken from the Owens homestead, one Marie was used to riding!Now it looks like I am in for a sore butt along with everything else, thought Marie, but it beats walking!They mounted and rode out, in trail. Marie understood she would get nowhere, naked and burdened with a newborn, if she tried to escape. So, she rode docilely, for now, behind. ’ ‘What would you advise about a fair price?’ He looked at me for a minute. ‘I’ve heard about you. The rugby and the speech you gave Saturday. I’m going to say something private I ask you not to share. Hugh French was the mail deliveryman here for many years until arthritis took him down. His pension is tiny. If you were into sharp dealing, he would let it go for forty thousand pounds. But you would do him and his wife a service by improving that. They could use some of it to add a room at. So we fixed our date and I picked her and brought her home.She was wearing a light green sari and matching blouse.She was on the voluptuous side which I liked.Once inside home I held her close by her waist and she did not resist.I turned her to face me, held her face with both hands and kissed her lips.Now she started to respond and hugged me while we stood there kissing.I started to undrape her saree while we were still kissing. The saree fell on the floor and I started to fumble with her. I was spending enough time at Barton Yard that I sent for the girls, and Barton gave us a nice 'penthouse condo' in the Imperial.While Kenya and the others were being taken apart and put back together, the three "Junior Hero" ships were finished and mated with their gun assemblies. Since we weren't planning to build any more, we named them after three American folk heros: Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, and John Henry. There was some argument about that last, because John Henry was a real guy,.