"Call me Joe," he said and handed her a bunch of keys, "it's clean, my wife's made sure of that, but there's absolutely no furniture at all I'm afraid..." That's okay Joe," she smiled and coloured at his compliment, "I've got some money saved up and what I can't afford, I'll do without."And she and mum ran off excitedly to explore the flat."Here Tommy, look at this." he beckoned me behind the counter and pulled open a little drawer, "This is dad's idea, I 'spose he told you about it."The drawer. Finally, in a fit of passion, Sanchez pulled his revolver and shot the man he was talking to in the chest. That finally woke me up to taking some action, so I took careful aim on Sanchez and let fly. His horse moved just as I fired, so that I did not hit Sanchez with an immediately fatal wound. The bullet appeared to hit him in the side and glance off a rib.Sanchez reacted in such a way that I knew that I had hit him, but it was not enough to kill him right then. The best I could hope for was a. A number of cruise ships left from New Orleans every week, so we had good bait to follow almost any day we were interested. The hurricane season was now history, so we were not concerned about big storms. On our second day of hunting, the lookout spotted a cruise ship that appeared dead in the water. Now, that was remarkable enough to warrant investigation even if we were not hunting pirates.We came in toward the bow, and we were almost up to the ship when we saw a boat about the size of the. . thinner."She tilted her head to the side. "Thinner?" Yeah, he?s fit. Not like a gym rat or anything. But in pretty goodshape for his age." I shrugged. "If he started getting anywhere nearthat size, mom would give him an earful."She stared at me for a second. "Oh, yeah. You?re mom is still alive."She sounded like I?d just kicked her in the stomach.I don?t know why, but I reacted by grabbing her into a tight hug,crushing her against my chest. We stood there for a few seconds,holding each other.