tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28391920826728572062024-03-12T17:29:06.691-07:00Blair-Pacific Publishing- Robert HattingRobert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.comBlogger258125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-23990903344557336512019-07-27T15:26:00.000-07:002019-07-27T15:26:17.503-07:00Changes for changing times.<br />
Living where I do — the Philippines, I have to constantly remind myself that I’m a guest in someone else’s country. I have no rights or benefits due me. I had to do that in Panama prior to moving here. It was an easier reminder in Panama because the language was mostly Spanish. Here, almost everyone speaks a few words of English.<br />
Since I moved here four years ago, the cost of living has doubled. This discerning fact should alarm me but doesn’t. Like most foreigners, I catered my lifestyle to western living in a 3rd world country. I didn’t go native in Panama and I have not gone native in the Philippines.<br />
However, adjustments need to be made. Here’s just a few I’ve made recently.<br />
I decided to reduce the amount of money I spent at the larger supermarkets like Hypermart and Robinson’s in Dumaguete. Instead I began my search of items on my list — here in Valencia. Starting at the nearest sari-sari store, then to the local public market and the satellite markets and bakeries. I was pleasantly surprised at the selection I had; albeit I had to visit many stores. That’s fine I’m purchasing local and sharing my income with locals; neighbors instead of rich chain-store operators. To my surprise, I saved twenty percent (20%) and didn’t really diminish my style of living/eating.<br />
Another way I cut back on my expenses was to fashion products for the house rather than purchase them. You can buy a tool and it will help you create a product — unit for more comfortable living rather than purchasing something made in China which self destructs in a matter of weeks. <br />
Re-purposing is in order — the idea that people would flock to order motorcycle trailers was a myth in my own head. Soooo, I’ve decided to craft items for the house out of pieces and parts for the trailer. Ohhh, I’ll probably make a trailer for myself. Just not a commercial venture. I’ll stick to my writing for extra income. <br />
On that subject, writing and publishing books, I've had to change that aspect of my life as well. Facebook which used to be my platform to promote has tuned sour on me. I'm often restricted in my posts so I'm electing to find different platforms; Twitter is one. MeWe is another and perhaps Goodreads. This blog will undergo some changes as well. I'll use it for the vehicle to other venues -- like Twitter and MeWe. Join my blog and get freebies -- entitlements for adding to my numbers. Stay tuned. Join if you will as i gradually put facebook in my rear view mirrorRobert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-38607307497535383322019-05-29T16:36:00.000-07:002019-05-29T16:36:25.135-07:00REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS<b>Review of the reviewers:</b><br />
<b>When you read a book and you notice a misspelled word or a typo do you blame the author? Do you blame the editor or proofreader? How about punctuation? Whose fault is it if the punctuation doesn't conform to your standards? (ie; Oxford vs AP, vs Chicago style…)</b><br />
<b>The answer is unfortunately — the author gets blamed. Even though he/she paid a proofreader, an Editor, a formatter, and a cover designer, marking a book back one point (from 5 to 4) make a big difference in an author’s paycheck. You are blaming an author for someone else's oversight or confusion. Maybe the reviewer is wrong?</b><br />
<b>Here’s a good example of how an editor or reviewers ignorance changes the value of a novel. It has caused me to be criticized and marked down many times.</b><br />
<b>SULL (NOT PULL)= the action by an animal to being restrained by a lariat, a collar or harness. It’s a western word that is used by people familiar with livestock - horses, cows, goats, dogs, and even cats. Look for it in the dictionary and it’s not there. Why? BECAUSE — people who publish dictionaries aren't familiar with the western world as we know it. The word has been around for a long time. I heard my great grandfather use it when I was just a small child. Don’t mark me down because of your ignorance!</b><br />
<b>COMMAS: It’s a matter of opinion. Which is correct? He ate the meat, potatoes<span style="color: red;"><u>,</u></span> and the bread. He ate the meat, the potatoes<span style="color: #cc0000;"><u> </u></span>and the bread. </b><br />
<b>The answer of course is BOTH. It depends on your education and training as to which style you use. Gene Small, my HS English teacher, told me to pick one and stay consistent. Marking an author down because of punctuation is just mean!</b><br />
<b>Same with the covers or style or sexual content. If you don’t like it… here’s an idea DON’T REVIEW — leave it alone! </b><br />
<b>Pure vs convoluted — When you go to the Kindle New Releases on Amazon and look at the review section. A pure review is ZERO. No reviews — it’s just been released (like JUNGLE GIRL yesterday.) that’s pure. When you see a new release with 78 reviews or even 10. That’s convoluted. PHONY REVIEWS to make an author more salable. I don’t subscribe to this; too much a cowboy purist in me, I guess.</b><br />
<b>Reviews weaponized: I loaned a guy several thousand dollars when I lived in Panama. He never paid me back. So, I would write him often and chastise him about his debt. He began buying my books and leaving scathing bad reviews. Marking me at 1 every time. I complained to Amazon and eventually after showing copies of my letters and his purchases (normally my free offers) and the pattern created, they block him. But they never reversed the 1’s — my average was knocked to it’s knees on several titles.</b><br />
<b>Don’t like the cover but never read the book? Yep, that happens more than you think. No problem until you leave a nasty review about the book cover and admit you have not read the book. This has happened more than once in my short Amazon association. </b><br />
<b>Here's a couple of examples -- actual word for word from the novel reviews.</b><br />
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<b>Drucilla Graham</b><br />
<b>1.0 out of 5 starscover</b><br />
<b>January 17, 2015</b><br />
<b>Format: Kindle Edition</b><br />
<b>Love native American books I always look at the cover the cover of this book is puzzling. I know you can not judge a book by its cover. But it show a native American but the son who is a half breed looks black and is mother is white? Because the mother is white the son should be light .he is darker then his father. I am a logical person and see book covers in a logical way. To me the covers should represent what's in the book. I will read the book and review the book by its story. </b><br />
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<b>Les</b><br />
<b>3.0 out of 5 starsEntertaining Western.</b><br />
<b>August 25, 2013</b><br />
<b>Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase</b><br />
<b>This is a Western and I found it to be entertaining. The story itself was interesting enough to maybe warrant four stars, but the presentation was rough and would have benefited from some professional editing and proofing.</b><br />
<b>2 people found this helpful</b><br />
<b>SO THERE IS MY REVIEW OF REVIEWERS. As a whole they are honest people but are ignorant as to the ramifications of the effect on author's sales and consequently their income. (End of whine)</b><br />
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<b>Average reviews on Amazon. 1= horrible, 5= highest rating.</b><br />
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<b>1. CRYSTAL COWBOY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.6</b><br />
<b>2. PARTNERS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.6</b><br />
<b>3. UNTAMED<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.8</b><br />
<b>4. ALASKA BE DAMNED<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.7</b><br />
<b>5. TRES PIEDRAS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>6. LAST FRUIT STAND ON GUAM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.8</b><br />
<b>7. TRUST ME<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>8. BOOMER<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.7</b><br />
<b>9. EXPAT<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.6</b><br />
<b>10. TUCSON TERRITORY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.8</b><br />
<b>11. MURDER IN PANAMA<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.9<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><br />
<b>12. SHOOTER<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.6</b><br />
<b>13. HALF BREED <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.8<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><br />
<b>14. HART RULES<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>15. REVOLUTION OF FOOLS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.7 </b><br />
<b>16. JIMMY HART TRILOGY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>17. COIN OF THE REALM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>18. PEPPER PYLE <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>19. UNBROKEN<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>20. WILSON’S WAR<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 5.0</b><br />
<b>21. BROKEN BADGE<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> NEW</b><br />
<b>22. KID MUSTANG<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>23. SHANIKO SAM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>24. MOSTLY MOABLY <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>25. SECOND VERSE <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>26. COUNTERFEIT KATHOLIC<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>27. WILLFUL IGNORANCE<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.0</b><br />
<b>28. RING OF FIRE <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>29. COTUN BAWLS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>30. MIND YORE MANNERS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>31. WILDERNESS COWBOY<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>32. BAD MANNERS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>33. SLAUGHTER AT STINKING SPRINGS<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>34. OBSIDIAN ASTEROID<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>35. DIAMONDS IN THE DARK<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>36. JUNGLE GIRL<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.0</b><br />
<b>37. SIEGE AT JUNTURA<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>38. FORBIDDEN FRUIT<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>39. KNIGHT TRANE<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
<b>40. BLOOD BATH<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NEW</b><br />
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NEW STRATEGY — WISH ME LUCK<br />
How it works:<br />
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Amazon offered a special program for readers. It’s been in effect for several years and I have tried in vain to circumvent their system; a system that is great for readers but HORRIBLE for authors. That’s right — horrible with a capital ‘H’.<br />
A reader can sign up for the Amazon Kindle Unlimited program and read hundreds of thousands books for free. That’s right, for about ten bucks a month a reader has a library at their fingertips and can read most of today’s authors for free. If you are a READER, what’s not to like? Good for the reader — good for Amazon but horrible for the authors.<br />
If you are an author, FREE BOOKS eliminate any royalties. Yup, no sales = no royalty. Here is how they compensate the author of the free book — authors get paid by the page read. How in the hell do we audit that? The answer of course — we can’t. As an author, I am at the mercy of Amazon. Are they honest? What do you think? I feel violated each time I get the pittance from Amazon. To me it’s a stacked deck. I bowed out often and got slapped back into reality. They control the marketplace and I have to play by their rules. Sooooooo, here’s what I intend to do:<br />
1. All of my books except the multiple book volumes are available to be read for free. I enrolled them in KDP select which allows those who joined Kindle Unlimited to read them for free. I’ll keep promoting the free books on an individual basis plus their Kindle Unlimited.<br />
2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Currently I have seventeen(17) unpublished manuscripts sitting in the bowels of my hard drive. They are unpublished because I don’t have the funds to pay the professionals to get them released (about 2000 USD each= 34k). I’m going to publish them in some form — maybe two a month with whatever covers I can create. Each new release is promoted by Amazon. I want the sky black with new releases for the next ten months or longer. <br />
3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The RISK? It’s violating the cardinal sin of authors. Publishing work that hasn't been professionally edited or formatted. I may get marked down in my reviews. The REWARD? Maybe more folks turning pages so I can be paid for my writing. The major advantage is it gets the stories out where they belong — in the hands of the readers. <br />
So, that’s my new plan. Amazon sucks but they make the rules. I’ll play with their rules — my way. Be prepared for many new releases in several genres. THE TWO COVERS SHOWN IN THIS POST ARE THE APRIL, 2019 RELEASES.<br />
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<br />Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-25239050698797128572018-12-09T09:49:00.001-08:002018-12-09T09:49:23.780-08:002018 PRODUCTION -- NOVEL MANUSCRIPTS <br />
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Last year about this same time – Mid- December 2017, I put the final “30” on a manuscript I had been working on for almost two years; COIN OF THE REALM -- the 4<sup>th</sup> novel in the Jimmy Hart series. I made a resolve at that point to close my Ozone business and concentrate 100% of novel production. On Christmas Day of 2017 I began writing without the distractions of business. The result is shown below; eighteen titles within a twelve month period. An all time best for this old cowboy. Some are already published, others are in the various stages of production, and some like the last two on the list are still in the rewrite stage.<br />
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One would assume quantity does not produce quality. That common assumption has been proven wrong – the four novels on this list that have been released, received FIVE STAR ratings from my readership.</div>
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I write in three genres. PERIOD WESTERN, CONTEMPORARY WESTERN and ACTION/ADVENTURE. </div>
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No matter which genre in which I write, or what POV I use, one common thread is always present: GROUNDED IN REALITY. All my stories are original. They may be inspired by an event or idea but they are spawned in my mind, not rewrites of some long ago expired copyright. </div>
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-47851679286336898872018-09-15T13:02:00.001-07:002018-09-15T13:02:56.279-07:00EXPAT LIVINGFOOD CRAVINGS<br />
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THE BEST MEAL ON THE TRIP WAS IN HONG KONG AND I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE WHAT I HAD EATEN (the meat was dark and chewy -- not beef, pork or chicken.)<br />
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I’ve been an ExPat since 2003. I’ve lived in many places in Central America and now the Philippines. I seldom return to the USA. I miss certain foods; specifically good beef. Steaks, Roast Beef, and hamburgers. Being an ex-rancher it’s difficult to please me with inferior cuts of meat. So, knowing that I seldom order beef off the menu and avoid fast food joints in 3rd world countries.<br />
I violated my resolve on my trip to Hong Kong last week. I visited two franchise hamburger joints at the Manila airport. Burger King and Wendy’s. I wasted my money — both times. I couldn’t take more than one bite before tossing in the trash. Why? MAYONNAISE! Both sandwiches were slathered in mayonnaise.<br />
What’s with Filipinos and Mayo? My housekeeper fixes her kid a sandwich by layering on mayo between 2 pieces of bread. They put it on everything. God how cruel it is to an old western guy — mayo on a burger. I was taught by a grandmother how to cook. First rule! White with white — red with red. (only exception — biscuits and gravy)<br />
Okay.. Here’s he example — when we made tomato based chili we didn’t use chicken — we used beef. Red meat = red sauce. We used mayo on turkey, chicken and eggs or salads. Red meat got A-1, ketchup or mustard. When you make spaghetti, you use red Marena sauce with beef. With a chicken or shrimp you use a Carbonara white sauce. <br />
My grandmother would have sent those fry cooks at Burger King and Wendy’s to perdition if she would have seen how they ruined those meals.Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-53662880231631814362018-09-08T15:28:00.000-07:002018-09-08T15:28:01.994-07:00SOME OF THE REVIEWS OF MY NOVELS<br />
HERE IS THE LAST 10 PAGES OF REVIEWS. These are actual readers -- not contrived or paid reviewers. Actual -- unabridged. You see the good with the bad.<br />
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Fantastic book. Written in a manner that takes you to that time period. The author evokes the reality that this generation of cowboy pioneers are the ones who opened and tamed the Wild West Amazing writer.</div>
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Another cant put down till finished book by proficient writer. Thanks Rob for a great read. Can't wait for the next book in this series.</div>
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This is an adult romance, but so much more. Welcome to Guam where Skid McMaster is leading a laid back life. Things are going to change and end up in turmoil with man and mother nature trying to foil things for Skid. Learning his family is coming to visit, Skid is in a tizzy. His relatives think he is engaged. A woman Skid has spent some time with agrees to fill in. Big problem though because Blondie has a relationship already....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R1AZ8UDKDPD4ET" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I've read all Roberts books to this point and non have disappointed. To the contrary i have been entertained, fully enthralled to the point of not eating meals. I highly recommend.</div>
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I continue to enjoy the adventures of the hero in Revolution of Fools. Be sure to read it this exciting book.</div>
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Willis Mathews along with friends Curly and Gladys are in for an adventure. When Cecelia steps into the picture their may be some great romance also. From Oregon to Panama, the author takes readers on a special journey that entails all kinds of hardships and heart touching moments The author uses a bit of humor in his tales that make the characters and the story feel more like reality than fiction and also makes the reading...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3RNBBZAN44GGL" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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After some problems in America, Corky Stuart is going to leave the country. Once he heads across the border he finds some things don't change no matter the local. Corky is finding gangsters, trouble and crazy people can be found anywhere. This is a great adventure by an author whose other books I have also read and enjoyed.</div>
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When a book is labeled as a 'western' people forget that cowboys are alive and well in our world today. Robert Hatting is an author who writes amazing stories to help all know that fact. The author writes book that feel more like fact than fiction and brings wonderful characters to readers. In this book we meet Harp Hancock and his mother Goldie. Harp rides in the rodeo and has a hard time just trying to keep his mother and...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3BLN06KGYDJL9" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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The author had me guessing the entire book. The story line was great. I can"t wait to read his next book.</div>
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Beginning with a ship wreck, the author takes readers into the vastness of Alaska and also into the corruptness of government in a conspiracy thriller. The character, Ben Reed, is a person who I would love to meet. I have read several of this author's books and find all are well written and intriguing. "Alaska be Damned" is an adventure readers are going to enjoy and a story that will stick with you long after the last...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3PJYD2N7ZCDGE" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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This is an intriguing and informative book. For someone, like me, who is interested in alternative everything, this is a book that I had to have a look at. The author not only explains about the ozone treatment, but has used it himself and with extraordinary results. So many things in our life are put forward just so the people behind the craft can make money while those suffering in pain continue to suffer. The author is NOT...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3LH8VYMW486JH" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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This is an intriguing story with some interesting characters. Glen Wilson, who also goes by the name Curtis Dawson has more than a few secrets. What he knows and is willing to broadcast to the news if he has to, has him moving from place to place and trying to stay out of harm's way. Something hard to do when your secrets include terrible things out government has done. Readers get to follow Curtis to a variety of town and through...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R11H3VKDOFF8MV" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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A good book just full of Surprisers .The action was good .the cast of characters was very interesting. A veery well written book.</div>
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For me, I l felt like this book could actually be two novels with so much going on. The author keeps everything in order though and writes a great story. Sue and Colleen are friends working for the peace corps. Luckily when they get lost they are saved by Jimmy Hart. Jimmy is a man with an interesting past that includes being a hero in service to the country. Good thing, because Jimmy is going to need all his training when Colleen...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3DU5L6V782ZX3" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I wouldn't exactly call this book a western, although I would say that Curtis Dawson is a cowboy. He would have done well in the old west. Instead, he is a man just trying to make a living doing what he can. Curtis Dawson also has a mysterious past. When Curtis and his partner R.C. get involved with a man named Erskine, their usual job of rounding up illegal immigrants changes and trouble is on the horizon. I didn't read the...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RJ6KWZ5AIO90A" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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This tale is a western read, but it is more than that, throw in murder, mystery and greed for starters. Henry Boomer is the sheriff. He has his deputies and he also has Wolf-boy Peters who helps out. Wolf finds a man gut shot, only to find it is his uncle Arlis. When Arlis dies he leaves his possessions to Wolf and a bog mystery that is going to take Wolf, the sheriff and his deputies on a great old western hunt for the truth....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R18S0JRCRBLSN7" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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This is a good read that is more of a genealogy of a family's past in the old west. It is a look a t prejudice and hatred, something that never seems to go away. Cynthia Ryland's family owns a ranch in Southern Arizona. When Chato, a Chiricahua Apache, saves Cynthia's life, the two end up as a couple and have a son they name Brian Chato Ryland. Readers follow along through the hardships of Brian known as BC, and the rest of...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RDCF1MYK1U6O9" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I had forgotten the description of this book, having gotten it some time before I read it, & at first was not sure that I would like it since it starts off with the cowboy dealing with his apparently hippy mother & her flaky boy friend. However, if you hang in there, before long you will be off to the rodeo & things get interesting, although there are some hippy/punk protesters at the gates. There is humor, a lot for the ...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R3HTAYKKPTKM64" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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Both Boomer and Half-breed were superb stories. Fast paced, something new and surprising around each corner. Not enough about the care of the horses, but I'll hope they take care of their only transportation. Great reads, and there are so many similarities of the hearts of humans then as well as of today, just transportation and technology is different. Just good to know the Lord has got this.</div>
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Enjoyed this book. I think it would make a wonderful movie or a series. Love the sheriff and the other people made me wish they were my neighbors.The author has a great way of writing and your interest never wanes. Thanks,Robert Hatting and Amazon.com!</div>
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A good story overall. Sheriff Boomer befriends a young man while trying to solve the mystery of land and cattle stealing. I didn't care for the frequently changing point of view. There were several typo/missing words. Otherwise an enjoyable western tale.</div>
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Finley written excellent story line, kept me guessing right till the end.</div>
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This series took me away from my sad life and problems to my youth and a time when every day was a adventure. If you ever served you country you will love this series, I am dying to get my hands on next book in this series.</div>
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Great western with contemporary content. Well written edge of the seat from beginning to end.</div>
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Excellent book, well written, believable story, if you lived through this time you will enjoy reading it.</div>
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One of the best Western writers I've read. This book will remind of the great western writers of times past. A quick read, you'll do better absorbing the characters. You learn that people change their ways, well, some of them.</div>
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Liked the book. At times could not put it down. The tales of the old west intrigue me. This one was special.</div>
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Good story line, action abounds with two protagonists you grow to care for. But why oh why can't these offerings get read before they're published?? Typos galore are a major distraction and interrupt the flow of the story. Should have warranted a two star rating as a result but I did see it through to the end.</div>
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This is a good read. The story could take place anytime, anyplace, which makes it better. Actually modern times, but with an old fashioned feel to it.</div>
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A good read! The author produced a well-constructed plot that held my attention throughout the book. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue between all the characters.</div>
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I think that you will find this book very enjoyable. It reads really easy and is full of excitement. I highly recommend this book.</div>
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Robert Hatting has done a fantastic job of depicting the modern day cowboys and cowgirls on the rodeo circuits of our contemporary world and his tale of romance is entertaining and a pleasure to read.<br />
My oldest brother rode bulls for a very short while in the 50's and Mr. Hatting's wonderful story brought back some very pleasant memories.<br />
Great storyline and enjoyable characters.<br />
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Good background information. Easy to read.</div>
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I really enjoyed Mr. Hatting's in-depth analysis and story of the rider's trials and injuries during their dangerous rides. He also brought their lives and loves into the story with some intrigue and excitement.</div>
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Dumb plot. Ill defined characters. Uncertain romance. Sloppy segues. Interesting travelog, but take a map to your nap.</div>
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RH had written of a western Sheriff who area of responsibility includes Tucson and Tombstone. He had to work with town marshals and federal deputies. He and his partner travel throughout. Their county maintains law and order. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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No one knows for sure; that's why so many authors have written fiction (including the Warren Commission!) about the assassination. I enjoy these books and I enjoyed this one. A family of killers for three generations, the grandfather Wayne Hooker was the shooter of Kennedy, with his son and grandchildren following him in the "family business". I would have given this five stars, but it needed better editing. Misspellings like...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RV44KWIS74OUV" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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It was a very interesting read until the trial, mainly because having lived in Alaska and experienced power seeking narcissistic behavior. Once the dust settled, the remainder of the book caused me to lose interest... however still worth reading!!</div>
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RH has written two completely different westerns. Both take place in the era and time of Cochise and just before the Earp's arrive from Kansas. The storylines take you back to the hey day of the true western cowboy and not the movie versions. Tall, thin, cowboy boots and Levis, and a handgun on their side......This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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RH has written a western which could be compared with any of the western writers of the early 20th Century. His writing reminds you of Grey, Brand and numerous others. If for like oaters you are sure to enjoy this story. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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The adventure I would enjoy. Some old secrets and new identity as a rodeo cowboy. Good writing with some mystery, violence, horses and sexy ladies. What else could a guy want? Where is book two?</div>
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I enjoy Bob Hatting's books and have read almost all of them. They are not so complex that I am put off but take me to another place when I go to bed and read before sleeping. Keep it up, Bob!</div>
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I have mixed feelings about this book. The characters are interesting and believable, and, he has a great idea for the plot. BUT - [1] The prose is way too wordy. The writing distracts from the good parts of the book. [2] Everything is dependent on far too many coincidences used to tie the characters and plot together. An occasional coincidence keeps both real life and fiction fun, but dozens of them make things less believable....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R74UG01VZJZQS" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I like Bob's writing most of the time. I enjoy his characters and they take me away which is what I look for in a read. I have a<br />
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and enjoyed them all but one. I won't say which one but it is short:-)</div>
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I haven't read anything this much fun in a very long time. Being an Arizona Wildcat this reminds me of that city that is still just a small cowtown. Go Wildcats !</div>
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The world of professional assassins is given a human face in SHOOTERS, which centers on a brother and sister pair of assassins, Tom and Inez Hooker, the third generation of their family that have been in the business. The two have attempted to retire from that line of work, but one of the organizations that they have done work for doesn't seem to agree that they should hang it up. They and their close colleagues have to take...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RFC208KP7MFSQ" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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RH has written two completely different westerns. Both take place in the era and time of Cochise and just before the Earp's arrive from Kansas. The storylines take you back to the hey day of the true western cowboy and not the movie versions. Tall, thin, cowboy boots and Levis, and a handgun on their side......This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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RH has written a western which could be compared with any of the western writers of the early 20th Century. His writing reminds you of Grey, Brand and numerous others. If for like oaters you are sure to enjoy this story. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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Entertaining</div>
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The adventure I would enjoy. Some old secrets and new identity as a rodeo cowboy. Good writing with some mystery, violence, horses and sexy ladies. What else could a guy want? Where is book two?</div>
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I enjoy Bob Hatting's books and have read almost all of them. They are not so complex that I am put off but take me to another place when I go to bed and read before sleeping. Keep it up, Bob!</div>
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I have mixed feelings about this book. The characters are interesting and believable, and, he has a great idea for the plot. BUT - [1] The prose is way too wordy. The writing distracts from the good parts of the book. [2] Everything is dependent on far too many coincidences used to tie the characters and plot together. An occasional coincidence keeps both real life and fiction fun, but dozens of them make things less believable....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R74UG01VZJZQS" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I like Bob's writing most of the time. I enjoy his characters and they take me away which is what I look for in a read. I have a<br />
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and enjoyed them all but one. I won't say which one but it is short:-)</div>
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I haven't read anything this much fun in a very long time. Being an Arizona Wildcat this reminds me of that city that is still just a small cowtown. Go Wildcats !</div>
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The world of professional assassins is given a human face in SHOOTERS, which centers on a brother and sister pair of assassins, Tom and Inez Hooker, the third generation of their family that have been in the business. The two have attempted to retire from that line of work, but one of the organizations that they have done work for doesn't seem to agree that they should hang it up. They and their close colleagues have to take...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RFC208KP7MFSQ" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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Haven't had a chance to read it yet but the first few pages</div>
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1 of 2 people found the following helpful</div>
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RH has written two completely different westerns. Both take place in the era and time of Cochise and just before the Earp's arrive from Kansas. The storylines take you back to the hey day of the true western cowboy and not the movie versions. Tall, thin, cowboy boots and Levis, and a handgun on their side......This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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RH has written a western which could be compared with any of the western writers of the early 20th Century. His writing reminds you of Grey, Brand and numerous others. If for like oaters you are sure to enjoy this story. This is an excellent read for the genre..... ER</div>
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The adventure I would enjoy. Some old secrets and new identity as a rodeo cowboy. Good writing with some mystery, violence, horses and sexy ladies. What else could a guy want? Where is book two?</div>
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I enjoy Bob Hatting's books and have read almost all of them. They are not so complex that I am put off but take me to another place when I go to bed and read before sleeping. Keep it up, Bob!</div>
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I have mixed feelings about this book. The characters are interesting and believable, and, he has a great idea for the plot. BUT - [1] The prose is way too wordy. The writing distracts from the good parts of the book. [2] Everything is dependent on far too many coincidences used to tie the characters and plot together. An occasional coincidence keeps both real life and fiction fun, but dozens of them make things less believable....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R74UG01VZJZQS" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I like Bob's writing most of the time. I enjoy his characters and they take me away which is what I look for in a read. I have a<br />
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and enjoyed them all but one. I won't say which one but it is short:-)</div>
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I haven't read anything this much fun in a very long time. Being an Arizona Wildcat this reminds me of that city that is still just a small cowtown. Go Wildcats !</div>
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The world of professional assassins is given a human face in SHOOTERS, which centers on a brother and sister pair of assassins, Tom and Inez Hooker, the third generation of their family that have been in the business. The two have attempted to retire from that line of work, but one of the organizations that they have done work for doesn't seem to agree that they should hang it up. They and their close colleagues have to take...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="RFC208KP7MFSQ" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I don't usually read westerns, but this wasn't a usual western. Robert Hatting did a fine job bringing his chacters to life.</div>
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As an expat living in Panama the story being set in today was captivating. I new many of the location and this made it even more fun and exciting. Being a student of current political scene and world intrigue the story line was like being there.</div>
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wonderful characters and I didn't want this read to end</div>
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Very interesting, characters are well developed and the writing very descriptive and fluid. Great blending of fiction and reality, so much so it made me pause and consider all the possibilities...maybe it is more truth than fiction. Will we ever know?</div>
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Very good story. Reporter who was in Vietnam has some very damaging evidence and has been on the run for 3 years. His new identity is a cowboy on the rodeo circuit. When he lands in a town, he makes a new friend, and sticks around for awhile,but the government assassins are closing in.</div>
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As to be expected Robert Hatting's books are entertaining and a "good read". More Mr. Hatting.</div>
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Takes you to the recent Old West. Great storytelling come forward to bring in the Cain and Able story.</div>
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Good ole' western theme and action. I enjoyed reading it.</div>
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Boomer is a great book! It has a great story line, is captivating to read, and hard to put down! I highly recommend this book!!!</div>
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Fast read, great story telling. Enjoyed fully</div>
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1 of 1 people found the following helpful</div>
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Really enjoyed the action and the chacters.</div>
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I enjoyed "The Last Fruit Stand on Guam". Mr Hatting has quite an imagination, and the characters are fleshed out enough give the reader a feel for each individual. I like his short sentences, the way the action moves, the plot twists, and the very unique and interesting cast of characters. On a personal note, I've also spent time on Guam so many of the references were meaningful to me.<br />
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I've read another of the author's books, "Expat", and really enjoyed it (I could see it being made into an action/mystery movie.)<br />
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Great story</div>
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A story of the west told from the words of several of the characters. This is an excelent read, if you like Westerns</div>
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Another great read by Robert Hatting.</div>
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Good book but to many spelling errors. Who ever proof read this book did a terrible job. The authors needs to learn to better write words in Spanish.</div>
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Wow, another great Western story. Could be about 2 broke cowboys who quit working on a ranch that was going to be turned into a dude ranch.<br />
They formed a friendship, and found love and danger along the way as they tried to figure out what to do about jobs. Too close to the Mexican border, they run into thieves and the story gets be a nail biter.<br />
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Highly recommended read. Funny, sexy, adventurous, all in one great book. I will have to look for more of Hatting's books.</div>
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Love native American books I always look at the cover the cover of this book is puzzling. I know you can not judge a book by its cover. But it show a native American but the son who is a half breed looks black and is mother is white? Because the mother is white the son should be light .he is darker then his father. I am a logical person and see book covers in a logical way. To me the covers should represent what's in the book....<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R38FNEZIUWU2FH" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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BOB, this is one of my favorites!!!</div>
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YET AGAIN BOB IS SO TALENTED! IVE KNOWN HIM FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS FROM SISTERS OREGON! WOW! WHAT A READ! I LOVE IT!</div>
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Bob is a very talented writer and I enjoyed his book immensely!</div>
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I have read many of the authors books and I must say I enjoy the forth-right manner of his writing. He is real, down-to-earth with his stories and humor. "Tres Piedras" (three stones) will capture your imagination and make you wish you were on the boat and in Panama shaing and being a part of the life created by Robert Hatting.</div>
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I liked it but it got little slow at times lost interest but finished it.</div>
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Nice book to read. If only we can do it to all corrupt people the world will be a nice place to live on.</div>
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Very good, realistic dialog, hard to put down. Why doesn't my local library have any of these? He's written 11 novels, according to info at end of the book. Thanks, Mr. Hatting!</div>
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In this contemporary novel, set in the world of rodeo, Robert Hatting takes the reader right into the stands and bucking chutes, providing a realistic behind the scenes look at the art of rodeo riding, as well as the politics of the sport.<br />
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Mature readers and then a exciting romp through Guam with lots of twists and turns to the story. I enjoyed the read and interaction of the characters as the plots unfold. Not for the prudish reader.</div>
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An important book for many reasons, not the least of which is the EXTREME IMPORTANCE of the subject to the general public. It is written in simple language which makes it easy to understand and implement</div>
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I obviously didn't see this as others did. The actual story wasn't bad but the writing style made it hard to follow at times. Flipping from first to third person for several of the characters just didn't flow well for me. There was lots of action, some romance, good descriptions and the characters seemed realistic but it was not an exceptional story.</div>
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What a dynamic writer. I could hardly put the Trilogy down. He makes Panama come alive. There are so many unexpected twists and turns, it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire read. I agree with you, Peter Holyk, I will be standing in line for the next sequel that hits Amazon. And it was a special treat to meet Robert Hatting at our local Book Club at Hacienda Los Molinos in Boquete, Panama, last Thursday. He is as...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R1B3UCTFRA5B35" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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I DEVOURED all three of the books of the series. They struck very close to home since my wife and I recently moved to Western Panama after being visitors for four years! Being a doctor with many years of experience using Ozone for healthcare made that part all he more interesting too!<br />
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Meeting Mr. Hatting today was an unexpected and very wonderful bonus! I hope the series will continue again VERY SOON! I'll be...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="ROYCWZJM3VCGX" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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Excellent thriller, I could hardly put it down! Hatting writes with a flair and has so many details about Panama. Loved the book!</div>
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I hope there is more . you must have more for the Hart's . I REALLY LOVE YOUR BOOKS .</div>
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This book starts out with plenty of action and continues to add mystery upon mystery. Add a couple of romances, more mystery and finally some solutions......and even politics! Just being set in Alaska was enough to get me started and I'm glad I purchased this book. The writing was good.....Not like John Grisham good......but it was a very enjoyable read.</div>
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Another HART book that i enjoyed. I enjoy the style of Robert Hatting and keeps me coming back for more. Hart is a character that Hatting brings to life.</div>
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Fun read that i liked very much. I am a fan of Robert Hatting writing and find this suits my taste and make me look forward to the next offering.</div>
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Some start a review with "It was Unbelievably Great" but for me this book was "Believably Outstanding!" The dialog and activities of the characters was so well done that I bought into them totally. When I read the epilogue I immediately went to Google to find out what happened to the people. I looked up the books said to have been written, and double checked to see if the Alaska separationist movement was going on behind...<a class="readMore" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="R21950UE42BUA3" style="background: url("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/author-central/chevron-right-icon._CB188144633_.gif") left center no-repeat transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #996633; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 12px;"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed; box-sizing: border-box;">Read More</span></a></div>
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Enjoyed reading this Indian story by Hatting. Made a point to look for future writings by this Author. The story will grab you and keep you reading until the end.</div>
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Excellent read! Really enjoyed the references to the places and people in Panama.</div>
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Exciting read and a very different plot than most Alaska stories. Very enjoyable and interesting. Didn't expect politics to be part of this story.</div>
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7 of 7 people found the following helpful</div>
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I just read Robert Hatting's Old Tree Ozone. What a lot of research and knowledge he has. It is simply amazing what Ozone Therapy can do and how many people it has cured of various things. It definitely piqued my interest to learn more!</div>
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I procrastinated to read this after purchasing but am glad I finally took the time to read it. It was fantastic! There's a lot of history, politics, maritime, suspense, and romance. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Mr. Hatting did a great job of describing the landscape while weaving a story. He also spoke for the people of Alaska. Great read!</div>
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I really enjoyed reading all of the Robert Hatting books. I will be getting the rest soon. Thanks so much.</div>
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A very interesting western storyline that has pleny of action, and a plot to go with it. A fun western to read. Could not put it down.</div>
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It was good but not great,a little humor and medium intensity and a bit of mystery. Oh yes and a touch of sex</div>
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-37803533548990211782018-09-07T13:42:00.000-07:002018-09-07T13:42:59.021-07:00One in a row? Not hardly! One in a row? Not hardly!<br />
That’s how I am treated by what used to be my exclusive retailer. I have over 25 books listed on their site — all 4.5 stars or above. I get absolutely no support from them. None — zero — zip — Nada! In addition, they advertise other author’s books on my page. How crappy is that? To top it off, Amazon gives my work away for free. Yep. You read that correctly for free. My effort — my expenses to create a product — and they give it away for free. <br />
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NEW PLAN TO ELIMINATE THIEVES FROM MY LIFE. In weeks to come look for notices to LEARN ABOUT THE ALTERNATIVES TO amazon.com.<br />
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Years ago I began converting my novels to e-books using Amazon. I also used Barnes and Noble but back then one had to have a special device for each. I owned a Kindle so I opted out of B&N. I only had a half a dozen titles but I began making some money. I donated my royalties to an orphanage in David Panama. The monthly contribution kept growing as I added more titles and soon I was able to maintain my donation by halving the royalty deposit and augmenting my retirement income. All was well and good until Amazon got greedy. They forgot that it was their on-line book business that made them successful and decided to shaft the authors that were part of their foundation. Amazon implemented a program that benefited their company and the readership. If we authors would enroll our books in KDP select, we were entitled to huge promises of promotion — the only caveat was Amazon had to be the exclusive retailer. Most of us saw an opportunity and moved in that direction because we could use the extra sales. The problem was — the back side of this formula was the fact that Amazon offered the readers free books. We as authors never got any sales because most of our readers opted for the $10 a month and have hundreds of thousand of titles to choose from at no additional cost. The result was disastrous for authors like myself. Amazon told us we were getting paid by the page read. What a crock of BS that turned out to be. My royalties went to almost zero. The orphanage suffered, my income suffered and nothing was happening except Bozo the clown was getting filthy rich.<br />
Here’s the latest from these clowns (thieves).<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPgi2u-mkDoEVM2QXcMoBEYSb0R1vDmu-r4eZtOiQRoyMGsXNka6AYbNIbWCIanTGZjzo2emLHeYmPPgiTvYhhZIVFxXa_1lYaDF4j98uBOb51Y1mZeocMAG-CEwGdb7tGsuQ9w9VTiY/s1600/MostlyMoably-book+3D+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="1280" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPgi2u-mkDoEVM2QXcMoBEYSb0R1vDmu-r4eZtOiQRoyMGsXNka6AYbNIbWCIanTGZjzo2emLHeYmPPgiTvYhhZIVFxXa_1lYaDF4j98uBOb51Y1mZeocMAG-CEwGdb7tGsuQ9w9VTiY/s320/MostlyMoably-book+3D+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>We will again award "KDP Select All-Stars" for July to the most-read authors and most-read titles in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. All bonuses will be awarded based on total Kindle Edition Normalized Pages read during the month. We will also award bonuses for illustrated kids’ books – the top 100 most read titles in the U.S. and top 25 in the U.K. will receive such bonuses. </i><br />
This method is like Socialist hand-outs. Not like — exactly a socialist/communist formula. They choose who gets paid out of this magical fund that no one gets to audit. Typical promise and a prayer BS. Only those that advertise with Amazon get to be on the all-star list. None other.<br />
Now you understand the reasons why my lead-in is so strong. I will do everything in can to help other authors to avoid the traps set my Amazon and their socialistic ways. AUTHORS NEED TO BE PAID or there will never be a balance in society.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWKDBfDJ4jWmXxR5kT3SZIlJOh34HAgqpgktx-PVlpFk_JHBO0VMAd8K6L8t-ixYh7vztDPkSDJDJ-pq1cNhGbwoLo89lV5MpQHiU6vRtX7f-PWmTbdET6TOHlCiCmIuivSM_Myn7yLI/s1600/PP+final+version+book+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWKDBfDJ4jWmXxR5kT3SZIlJOh34HAgqpgktx-PVlpFk_JHBO0VMAd8K6L8t-ixYh7vztDPkSDJDJ-pq1cNhGbwoLo89lV5MpQHiU6vRtX7f-PWmTbdET6TOHlCiCmIuivSM_Myn7yLI/s320/PP+final+version+book+copy.jpg" width="232" /></a>It’s time for authors — even the one-in-a-row self publishers to avoid Amazon and look in other directions. Authors, here is the connections to your alternative. Draft to Digital (D2D) is my new choice. https://www.draft2digital.com/book/. Their motto is AUTHOR’S FIRST. Not only do they produce the book, they help distribute it to their retailing partners. <br />
I only have 2 books on their site at this writing but will be uploading my entire title inventory by the end of this year.<br />
In the meantime, go to my new website and order whichever of the 25+ titles you find interesting. https://publishingunbound.wixsite.com/roberthatting/books. You can always contact me directly via email. bobhatting@gmail.com <br />
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<br />Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-12470143458990369292018-08-12T03:33:00.000-07:002018-08-12T03:33:14.268-07:00New Book Series Launched<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="63ea7" data-offset-key="dcmdv-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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NEW SYSTEMS OF PAYMENT & DELIVERY<br />
Since my next series of novels (six in total) were written here in the Philippines and feature the Philippines and foreigners living in PH, I've decided to make it easy for locals to buy and enjoy my novels. If you have a cell phone and a Palawan or Gcash vendor, you can buy my work. Other methods include PayPal, credit card on my website, or directly with Amazon Kindle Store. The novels can be delivered to you instantly and you can download them on any device ; a cell phone, tablet, Kindle, or computer.<br />
In addition, selections of my titles may be purchased on SD chips and/or USB memory sticks. Four selections. My entire library of novels, one with just Period and Contemporary Westerns and a ten title mix of your choice.<br />
LOOK FOR IT SOON!Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-86657138400157032222018-06-24T19:43:00.000-07:002018-06-25T11:39:54.932-07:00Alternative to FaceBook -- the BlogLet's try this instead of FaceBook.<br />
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Some people know I write novels.<br />
Here’s a problem I face every day.<br />
One has to place a bit of priority to how you approach your day when keying in thirty or forty thousand words one character at a time. Any distraction will kill the flow of thought, the tempo of the story and if the distraction is strong enough, it will kill the creativity altogether.<br />
Distractions come in many forms; traffic noises, the housekeeper’s kid, the television, or the neighbor’s loud music. Nothing is worse than my own FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!<br />
My biggest distraction used to be my OZONE Business. Dealing with all facets of international laws, regulations, shipping, and actual assembly took copious amount of time. Since closing the business, I have more time and enough discipline to write several thousand words each day. Unfortunately, closing the business eliminated my income. Income that is needed to publish my books. Most don’t understand. It takes about Two-thousand USD to publish a book — not counting the printing costs.<br />
So, I have a backlog of unpublished manuscripts:<br />
COIN OF THE REALM<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Published last month.<br />
PEPPER PYLE —Period Western<br />
UNBROKEN — Contemporary Western<br />
WILSON’S WAR — Contemporary Western<br />
BROKEN BADGE — Period Western<br />
KID MUSTANG — Period Western<br />
SHANIKO SAM — Period Western<br />
MOSTLY MOABLY — A/A Moably PH #1<br />
SECOND VERSE — A/A Moably PH #2<br />
COUNTERFEIT KATHOLIC — A/A Moably PH #3<br />
WILLFUL IGNORANCE A/A Moably PH #4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
RING OF FIRE A/A Moably PH #5<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
COTUN BAWLS A/A Moably PH #6<br />
MIND YORE MANNERS — A/A Slug Manners # 1<br />
WILDERNESS COWBOY A/A Slug Manners #2 Just finished.(4th rewrite)<br />
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Fifteen full novels are ready to enter the publishing process. The only manuscript that is in phase 3 — the editing process is WILSON’S WAR. All others except WILDERNESS COWBOY are residing in my hard drive waiting for funds to initiate the process. Any idea when I can find $30,000 to get these published?<br />
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DON'T BE LAZY -- PREPARE YOUR OWN!</div>
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I’m often asked — ‘why do you not eat in restaurant more often?’</div>
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The answer I usually use — it’s a health issue. That’s true but it goes way beyond health. It’s anti-aging. If you can limit the poisons you add to your body by breathing and ingestion, you will live longer. When you recognize the benefits of certain foods and combine them to repair your body’s natural immune system, reverse aging occurs.</div>
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So, in my household, we bake our own bread, we juice local tropical fruits, we make tea from ginger, lemon grass, and turmeric we grow in the pyramid herb garden, we roast our coffee, we ozonate our drinking water and we make our own sea salt. The sugar we use is either honey or muscavado (raspadura). We make our own coconut oil. And when we ozonate it — it becomes our miracle cure for most everything (from burns to ulcers).</div>
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We recently moved to another house in town and now I have my smoker installed and functioning properly. We are currently experimenting with making our own bacon, ham, and Cdn bacon. It’s turned out quite nicely; not only with taste but also the simplicity of production.</div>
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Homemade bacon and Cdn Bacon or any of our smoked products begins with the salt.</div>
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We make our own salt from seawater. The seawater is purified by ozonating a two gallon glass jar of the raw seawater for five (5) min. This kills all the bad organisms and lowers the radiation. Then water is cooked down to salt — basic clean sea salt. </div>
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The curing of bacon and Cdn bacon begins with the brine.(dry or wet) We use only our salt and muscavado (Raspadura in Central America) No chemicals allowed. The spice mix we put in the glaze is all natural as well as the coconut milk and pineapple juice. We juice our pineapple to get the juice — we squeeze the coconut milk from the shredded copra (this is also the way we make coconut oil)</div>
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The curing process takes 4-5 days. The smoking process takes 4-6 hours. Then like magic, the bacon and the Cdn bacon are finished.</div>
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Fish fillets, beef and chicken jerky take less time in the smoker. They are not cured but they are brined; usually for 24 hours. Smoking is usually on racks rather than on hooks and takes less time. All in all, the preservation aspect is good and the flavors are wonderful.</div>
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<i>As an aside: we use a vacuum packer and then put our food products in the freezer or refer. Two things happen — if you lose power —no problem it will maintain its freshness for about 2 weeks. If you defrost and then change your mind, you can refreeze without creating any risk of food poisoning. With a vacuum sealed package it adds four times the ‘goodness’ life to ordinary frozen meats. </i></div>
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<br />Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-59596954890562457212017-10-09T01:24:00.000-07:002017-10-09T01:24:25.672-07:00ANSWERING A NARCISSISTIC NINCONPOOP<br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">I have an acquaintance who says he’s my friend. Actually, he’s not. I have nothing in common with the man except we come from the same country.<br />
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He’s the type who asks personal questions disguised as though he’s interested. Most ranchers know what I’m referring to: 1.) “How many cattle do you have on your ranch?” 2.) “How many rental houses do you own?” 3.) “How many books do you sell each month?” 4.)”How much did you pay for your house?”<br />
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These questions and many like them are asked by these types of people. In my mind it translates to — HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE IN THE BANK? or — HOW MUCH DO YOU EARN? Am I being rude by pointing this out? Perhaps, but the rude people in my mind are the ones who ask those kind of questions. <br />
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This guy scoffed at my response to his question about my royalties. “Christ, you are wasting your time!” he stated in an angry tone. “I have part time employees who earn more than that each month!”<br />
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I didn’t argue with him. I smiled at his response and exited his space. Frankly, I haven't seen him since nor do I wish to. He’s what I call a NN person (narcissistic nincompoop)<br />
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So to enlighten some of you folks who don’t know authors, I’ve decided to post this set of facts and opinions on my blog.<br />
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HERE’S SOME TRUTHS ABOUT AUTHORS<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors don’t write for anyone except for themselves.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> They write to salve the inspiration they received in some form.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors seldom write for money.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> They accept money but it’s not what drives them.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors seldom write for fame.</em><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Show me a writer who glories in the limelight and I’ll show you an author who has a ghostwriter. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors have enormous freedom.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (In more ways than one can imagine.)<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Think about it : we can work anytime from anywhere. But that’s not all. We choose — everything! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors don’t care what anyone thinks.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> The harshest critic cannot contain or quash the creativity of an author.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors create legacies within their genre.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Think about it: no one writes like Jack London, Elmer Kelton, Edward Abbey, Hemmingway, Dunbar, Louis L'Amor, Zoe Saadia, or Robert Hatting. <br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors educate, entertain, and perhaps enlighten.</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> No matter the genre — a reader will take something away from a well written book.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Authors create estates —</em></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Let’s break down that last statement. I’ll use my inventory as an example. I have 25 novels published and another 4 completed and in the Que for editing/formatting. Two others are WIP. Fifteen are outlined.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As an Indie — all my rights and all my revenues belongs to me. LET’S ROUND OFF to 30 novels with an average net to me of $4.00 (digital) $18.00 (print)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Take one digital unit… if I sell 5 per week = $20. 52 weeks in a year = $1040. I plan on living another 20 years, so I’ll make 20 grand more or less for this one novel. But it doesn’t stop there. My copyright is good for another 51 years after I pass. My designated heir will continue to receive my royalties. Do the math. 71 years x 1000 m/l = $71,000. X 30 titles? 640K? Not bad but there's more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> Let’s talk about those 20 additional years. I can produce at least 2 novels per year. If I quit dicking around with my inventions, I can write 4 per year. Just for grins let’s assume I can at least produce those 2 per year. That’s 40 more novels for a total of 70. $ 70,000 X 70 = 4.9 mil. That’s an estate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Okay… maybe this is a stretch with a digital novel ( especially after I pass). But, what if one of the 30 (or 70) novels gets some upward movement? Perhaps a second title gains some traction? Then we have the proverbial jump rope scenario — the 2 handles raise the belly of the rope — all the titles get more exposure and consequently there is much more revenue. It’s happened with a lot of my contemporaries. Edward Abbey for one… DESERT SOLITAIRE was a mild hit. Then MONKEY WRENCH GANG was published and took off like a rocket. Overnight (after 40 years of writing), Ed became a star in our industry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My point is — investing the time to write a book may seem like a vanity play or a waste of time to the NN types. Over time it’s actually rewarding. Ask any author that’s published over five books to describe the feeling one gets when they finish the first draft of a manuscript.. By typing finis or ‘30’. Most can’t. I know I can’t put it in words. </span><br />
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</b>Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-52170252299002547372017-09-06T15:45:00.000-07:002017-09-06T15:45:21.587-07:00Rustler stove revisited<div style="text-align: left;">
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CONCRETE RUSTLER STOVE Homemade for about 1250 pesos ($25.)<br />
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I built my rustler stove for several reasons. I’m in the tropics and need to burn lawn refuse now and again. The synergy of burning junk and cooking down sea salt plus drying oregano is shown in one photo. Creating something out of nothing appeals to me. <br />
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One does not need a large fire — a hot fire is what is needed. The fire pit is only four inches in diameter. Once combustion reaches almost 100 percent, however, the heat created encompasses the entire chamber. Of course the heat rises, so the end result is a fire which is cylindrical(4”x 13”). Harness the heat with an iron pot, a skillet, or grill, and it becomes the off-grid — free energy stove. <br />
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When I want to B-B-Q a hamburger or chicken, I use charcoal made from coconut shells. I added an air intake into the feed hole and inserted an aluminum tube to convert the trash burner into a forge by adding a small air pump. I have a foot pump that I can use when the power goes out.<br />
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It’s multipurpose but not portable.(I included handles, so it can be moved around the yard, but it’s heavy.) I’ve made a similar unit out of stainless steel in the past. They are perfect for packing to the beach, but too small for my yard refuse.<br />
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I had to sell my dutch oven before I left Panama for the Philippines. That would be perfect for an oven for this unit. I’m looking, but in the meantime I will craft some sort of oven — either out of clay or steel. <br />
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Future experiments will be canning with a pressure cooker, baking with a crafted unit, and perhaps adding a basin for larger forge capacity.<br />
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Future photos — roasting our coffee using the coffee husks as fuel. Actual step by step building of the units and the enhancement of the forging capabilities. <br />
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-41589742261694225972017-09-01T13:35:00.000-07:002017-09-01T13:37:56.033-07:00PEPPER PYLE, by ROBERT HATTING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, or by any
information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the
publisher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The author has applied for
and will receive a statement from the US Library of Congress certifying that
this work of Robert W. Hatting is original intellectual property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fiction Statement </span></b></div>
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work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the
authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as
real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">PROLOGUE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">During
the civil war many captured southern soldiers and officers were released to
serve in the Union Army as infantry soldiers and served only in the west to
help with the Indian hostilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were referred to as Galvanized Yankees.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">One such
man was captured former Colonel Willard Pyle, a former Texas Rangers who
enlisted in the Confederate Army. He was captured along with six of his men and
served a year in the POW prison in Rock Island, Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that year of incarceration, he planned
and orchestrated the only mass escape from the infamous Rock Island
prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pyle colluded with the escapees
and covered their escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was given a
choice — a firing squad or transfer his allegiance and become a Yankee
soldier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pyle opted to become a
Galvanized Yankee and was assigned to a company in Arizona territory and later
to a command post in New Mexico Territory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was an able and courageous soldier and his superiors soon recognized
his leadership abilities. They advanced him — first to corporal, then to Sergeant,
and then to Master Sergeant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
imprisoned in Rock Island, Pyle had</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> arranged for some hot peppers to be
smuggled into the camp to fight scurvy. They called him Pepper and the moniker
stuck with him throughout his service to the Union army. Pepper served two
twenty-four month additional hitches and then disappeared a few months before
the termination of his third enlistment. He was presumed killed or captured at
the Lordsburg massacre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since his body
was never found, the Union officers of the ‘Repudiated Command’ deemed him a
deserter and placed a bounty on his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since he had been an Officer in the confederate army, the reward for his
capture was substantial.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Chapter 1.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
take me long to size up the Lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was green as grass but thought he knew everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gad, I detested those clowns they sent from
the academy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His logic was like that of
a mule. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sergeant, load those
coolies that can’t walk into the supply wagon,” he ordered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I pointed to the wagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Already accomplished,
Sir,” I replied. “Only six can’t walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone else is fit to make the trek to the mines.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">He began walking toward me leading his horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was typical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was supposed to lead, not mess with
details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was my job.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t need the details,
Sergeant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just do as you’re ordered,” He
barked as he approached me. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Since I only had three months left on my enlistment, I decided
to push back at the young officer.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I understand my job,
Lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure you know
yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just climb on that horse and lead
us outta here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My men and I can handle
the rest,” I shouted so my men could hear.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I knew he said something but I didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hail of gunfire and the shot that tore off
my left hand was all my ears heard before I slumped to the ground in extreme
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I witnessed many of my men die without
returning fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been ambushed so
I scrambled for cover behind a boulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Chinese scattered like quail and several of the elders and one
youngster crabbed toward the big rock. The Chinese youth picked up my hand, and
then wrapped her scarf around my wrist in tourniquet fashion.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I expected more gunfire but the only sound I heard was the pounding
of my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The little China girl was
still holding my hand and was attempting to attach it to my bleeding stob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smashing the mutilated appendage into my
flesh was excruciating but I managed to push her away without hurting her or
exposing me to whomever had ambushed us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It won’t grow back,
throw it away,” I instructed through my gritted teeth. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">An older China lady tried grabbing the youth to protect her –
the girl resisted and clung to my arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mutilated left hand flew out of sight as the little one crawled
closer and pulled the scarf tighter. The girl and the Granny were shouting at
one another but I couldn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
understand their gibberish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I held the
pain in contempt as I peered around the boulder to see who was shooting as
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The little one held on tight and
tried to pull me back to the safety of the rocks. Once again, the older woman
reached for the child.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">So far, there were only rifle shots and they were sporadic; like
only two or three people attacking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
distinctive reports of the .30-.40 Krag, the infantry weapon issued to my men,
were silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one in my squad was
firing back. Then I heard the same sound that had blown off my hand — the
distinctive report of a buffalo gun — a big caliber -- Sharps .50.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“There must be a white
man shooting at us,” I mumbled to no one in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know,” said the
young Chinese girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I saw him when we
were helping my grandfather into the wagon,” she reported in perfect English. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This small
Chinese youth was speaking like a refined lady.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That impression faded when the report from the buffalo rifle sounded
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The young woman screeched but
held my tourniquet tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She witnessed
her grandmother bleeding out from the large wound in her chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sobbed and held my arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My only people are now gone,” she sobbed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
sure we would survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hugged the
boulder as the heat of the afternoon bore upon our parched bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No other shots were fired and it appeared as
though our attackers had left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
shadows of late afternoon lengthened, I gambled a peek around the boulder and
only saw the bloating bodies of my squad, the coolies we were escorting, and
low flying circle of vultures anticipating a feast.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was able to stand with the assistance of the girl and the
boulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I propped myself against the
boulder and took stock of the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My left arm was throbbing but the tourniquet kept me from bleeding out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girl loosened it as we both inspected the
damage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was surprised the teenage girl
didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
approach her grandmother or her grandfather who was slumped over the sideboard
of the wagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She glanced toward the
body her grandmother a couple of times but seemed to be more intent on my
wound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I nodded toward the body of the
old woman.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“She is gone and we
are alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sad but I had promised
not to grieve for the old ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do
we do now?” She asked as she wrapped part of my neckerchief around the wound.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I pondered her question as I took mental inventory of my squad
and the coolies we had been charged to escort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My squad was dead, their bodies stripped of weapons and some
clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we were infantry, only
five horses had been stolen; the Lieutenant</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s mount and the wagon team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I scanned the hills for any evidence of our enemy before I took several
steps toward the Lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since there
was no mutilation of the bodies, I assumed the attackers had been Comancheros;
renegades from various tribes plus Mexican bandits that had banned together
with a rogue white man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comancheros
dealt in captives; mostly women and children that captured by the tribes,
traded to the Comancheros, and ultimately sold to rich Mexican overlords south
of the border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being captured by the
Comancheros and sold as slaves was worse than death at the hand of the Apaches.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The young Chinese girl finally stood in front of me, waiting for
an answer. Her facial expression brought me out of my reverie. I was about to
answer when movement near the dry wash caught my eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reached for my pistol but it remained holstered
as the girl placed her hand on the leather flap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two Chinese women and a man emerged from the
wash and began walking our way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The four
Chinese began jabbering in their language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I didn’t understand a word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
older man walked directly toward me and held out his hand; pointing to my
wound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hin Lo is a healer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wants to help you with your wound,” the young woman explained.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I nodded at the old man and turned back to the girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two women, who had approached in a timid
manner, were carrying a rifle and a canteen; evidently scrounged from the
bodies of my men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What is your name?” I
asked the girl?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My name is Mai Li,”
she answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My family is from the
region of Seschaean in southern China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am seventeen years old and a Christian,” she added.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was shocked because she looked like a twelve year old Apache
kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We need to find water
and shelter and get away from this place,” I advised. “Those Comancheros may
come back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to be in the
foothills of those mountains, yonder.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Chapter 2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’m
not partial to bragging, but I must have walked fifteen miles in the dark,
guided by the North Star, before I finally gave up and let the women assist me
down the ridge and into the gully with the small seep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My legs were wobbly and my left arm was
swollen and throbbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we reached
the water and my Chinese companions had their drink, I was made over like
royalty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must have dozed off because
when I woke up it was early morning, the sun was out, my stob had been
stitched, and Mai Li was placing a new dressing on me; part of a
petticoat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Your fever is
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made a good camp; can we stay
here a few days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo says you need to
get your strength back,”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I looked at our location and considered our vulnerability down
in the gully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pointed to the ridge
above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We need to take turns standing guard on the ridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If those Comancheros track us here, the guy
with the buffalo gun can kill us all in a matter of minutes.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why would they follow
us?” Mai Li asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t know why they
attacked us to begin with,” I replied. “If they were on a raid to take
hostages, they wouldn’t have killed everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It just doesn’t make sense,” I stated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li looked at the ridge and then back to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Maybe just today — we rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we go.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That jasper with the
buffalo gun… you said you saw him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
did he look like?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mai Li leaned back,
closed her eyes and</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">began describing the white man with
words like big, hairy, old, dirty, and wicked. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Would you recognize
him if you saw him again?” I gently asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li nodded her head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I will not forget the
man who killed my grandparents,” she responded with a break in her voice.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I knew if I was to track the guy down, she would have to come
along. Suddenly that became my quest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
avenge those two old folks, the thirteen other Chinese coolies, my squad and
even the no-nothing, do nothing lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I looked at my left forearm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep,
and revenge for blowing off my hand, too.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Our trip to the mountains surrounding Silver City took almost
two weeks. The destination I chose as our final camp was from a scouting
expedition that had taken place years prior — back when I was an expendable
Galvie. We had had some scary moments back then, dealing with the relatives of
old Mangus Colorado, but the Colonel who was leading the expedition, showed
some common sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He guessed that
Cochise was a powerhouse Injun, just like his pop, the legendary Mangus
Colorado, often called Red Sleeves, and he backed off the war department</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s normal position and
elected peace over extermination. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I recalled the old Apache stronghold as being one of the nicest
settings in the southwest; an abundance of game because of the good grass and
water, tall timber, and a perfect defensible location. Since those earlier
times, the Apaches had been moved to a reservation and the mountains near the
old cliff dwellings had been explored by prospectors — not much gold or silver
had been found, so it was a good place for us to hide out and for me to heal.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin Lo was a wily older Chinaman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seldom spoke but he knew his way around
the west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gathered roots and bark
from various plants to keep my stob healing without infection. Mai Li told me
he had worked as a seaman when he was young and was sold into slavery when he
was sent ashore in San Francisco. It seemed like a windy story to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t look to</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> be a day over forty
but the history she related made him out to be sixty years, plus. However,
considering my poor record at judging the age of Chinese, perhaps it was all
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The other two women in our group were as opposite as night and
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were both young — in their
twenties and both relatively attractive if you like the looks of China
girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither had the bearing or beauty
of Mai Li but they seemed amiable and trustworthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dao was quiet, Pink was chatty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They assumed all the burdens of all our camps
plus took turns attending to my wound when Mai Li was away, mostly hunting
small game and herbs of the desert. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">We posted lookouts every night and I often took a peek down our
back trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see no sign of the
Comancheros. What worried me was the white man who had obviously aligned
himself with the bandits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he had
split off, we would never see any sign of him until it was too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assumed he was a renegade mountain man or
buffalo hunter. That assumption was easy, because of the weapon he had used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I couldn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t figure was why he and his gang set out to annihilate a
squad of Union soldiers and eighteen Chinese coolies who were merely being
relocated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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destination life became easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
settled but still wary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I inspected the stob on my left hand as Hin Lo removed the
bandage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The infection was gone but the
flesh was still red and tender to the touch. I was anxious for it to heal so I
could fashion some kind of apparatus to hold a rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a pistol but it was worthless in my
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had never been a good pistol
shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, with a long gun, I was
deadly.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I left the bandage off, thinking the sunlight would be good for
my healing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a pleasant
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our cave as I called it would
be cooling, now that it was in the shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ancient Indians that built these cliff type dwellings knew a lot
about architecture and weather patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were shaded from the hot sun in the afternoon, greeted by the sun
rising from the east, and protected from the storms that hammered these high
elevations from the North.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it was
sunny, we mostly hung out around the </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘southern park’ as I called it because it was close to the
little creek that provided our water and also near the game trails that
converged at the beaver pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for
the fear of the Comancheros on our back-trail, I could have been content to
settle in and begin a new life in the hanging valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, I knew the army was going to
be upset with me for not reporting what happened back at the railroad
spur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had traveled a long way and I
had passed many opportunities for me to telegraph my superiors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a mental condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was afraid of the jasper that was following
us but also finished with that life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When my hand went flying into the dust, something else went flying,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My loyalty to a country I had
fought against and then joined in pushing Indians off their lands and rounding
up the rebels… yep I think of them as rebs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Confederate comrades in buckskin and feathers, rebeling and fighting to
stay in or near their homeland. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The sun was waning and shadows became long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was all alone in my usual spot among the
dead-falls at the edge of the meadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mai Li was nowhere to be seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pink was above me close to the cliff-side, stretching and scraping
deer-hides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dao and Hin Lo had gone off
in search of cattail roots; our main source of vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes watercress but mostly tulle roots
as we called them back in Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
became concerned for Mai Li.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not
even talked to her since the night before; then only to relieve her of her sentry
duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo relieved me at four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had crawled under the skins and was dead
asleep until first light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come to think
of it — she wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
outside by the creek as usual. I finally got off my lazy butt and walked up the
hill toward Pink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She grinned as I
approached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Where is Mai Li?” I asked
very slowly so she could understand.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">She pointed to the part of the high mountain valley where the
creek disappeared for about two-hundred yards and then re-appeared over the
cliff trail that led down to Piños Altos, a small miner’s camp, and eventually
the high mountain desert and Silver City.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I tried to get the reason for her disappearance but received
mostly smiles and shaking of the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pink was a good woman, but had not tried very hard to learn my
language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dao, on the other hand spent
many hours with Mai Li practicing her English words and phrases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was still shy with me but I admired her
for her effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I turned and pointed to the direction she told me Mai Li had
gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pink handed me a piece of deer
jerky and finally nodded her understanding.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Darkness was almost upon our camp by the time I returned to the
cliff dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had spent the late
afternoon looking for Mai Li and hadn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t seen any signs of her passing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say, I was disturbed. I could see
a feint light behind the deerskin curtain that served to keep out the wind and
cold. The flickering fire was a beaconing call because it also meant food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My stomach was rumbling from lack of nutrition
and over exertion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It’s Pepper, I’m
back,” I announced just before pulling aside our makeshift door.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">My greeting was the barrel of a Sharps fifty and an old mountain
man controlling the trigger.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where’s that china
gurl?” he demanded as he shoved the rifle toward my face.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was staring at the rifle bore; the one that had shot off my
hand and killed my men; not to mention the grandparents of Mai Li and all the
other coolies we had been escorting.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As my eyes adjusted to the dim light produced by the dwindling
flames, I could see Hin Lo, Pink, and Dao trussed up like hogs for
slaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This nasty old man and his
big ass rifle fired my anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leapt at
him by jumping right through the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rifle went off but missed me because I had startled him with my
crazy behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I clubbed him with my
left arm and then punched him in the face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I went crazy and kicked the life out of him — finally stabbing him
several times with his own Bowie knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By this time, the cave had become totally dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drug the old man to the remaining coals and
shoved his arm into the heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His greasy
buckskin smoldered and finally burst into a small flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was enough light to locate the woodpile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I threw some kindling on the fire and then
took the knife toward the back of the dwelling and began cutting the trusses of
my friends. I could still hear the boom of the gunshot in my ears as I helped
Hin Lo to his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pink was already
standing, helping Dao.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin Lo pointed at the old man lying in the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I quickly pulled his arm out of the fire and
picked up the rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo put more
kindling on the fire and I looked more closely at our assailant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I set the rifle aside and looked for other
weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found a smaller knife - akin
to a green river skinning knife in his possibles sack along with several dozen
fifty caliber cartridges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used the
razor sharp knife to cut the strap and appropriate his pouch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then sliced away part of his filthy shirt
to expose the wounds I had made with the bowie knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo inspected the wound over the old man</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s heart. It shot a
stream of blood each time the heart beat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hin Lo shook his head in the negative and I agreed. Just as I was about
to drag his dying body outside, the old man opened his eyes and looked me full
in the face. “You kilt me,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why did you kill my
men and all those coolies,” I asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“To get the gurl. I
was paid to get the china gurl,” the dying man slurred. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Who paid you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much did you get?” I demanded as I began
to steam again.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Them missionaries
paid me a huntert dollars in gold.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You and them
Comancheros killed all my men and them coolies for a hundred dollars?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should kill you again!” I shouted as Mai Li
came through the doeskin curtain.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I must have been quite a sight — I had my bloody stump pressed
against that old jaspers windpipe and his bowie in my right hand poised to stab
him again.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sergeant Pepper!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you doing?” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Before I could answer, Pink and Dao began explaining in their
own language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lowered the knife and
looked at the old mountain man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
gasping for air because my stob was still pressed hard against his throat. He
passed out.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I released the pressure on his windpipe, shoved the bowie knife
under my belt, and proceeded to drag the old killer out of our dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo splashed a dipper of water on his
smoldering buckskin sleeve and then assisted me in my efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Once I had the killer propped against a log, I took out the
knife again and waved it under his nose. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where’s your horse?” I asked in a gentler manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you alone?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The light from the fire in the cliff dwelling shrouded the old
man in a dim light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was eerie to
witness.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin Lo pressed his ear to the killer</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s chest and then
shook his head in a negative manner.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I got off my knees and turned toward the door to our
dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silhouetted in the firelight
was Mai Li.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ve been worried
about you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where did you spend the day?”
I gently inquired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li held out her hand and took a step forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took her hand and she pulled me back into
our cave; Hin Lo followed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As I calmed, the pain came — it came like thunder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My stob was bleeding and throbbed like never
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo pulled up my sleeve and
exposed a gash; evidently caused by the bullet fired at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li pulled several rabbit skins from her
possibles bag and held them toward the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
have been trapping rabbits for their fur and meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I placed snares in several places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One set is down by the hiding stream.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You should have told
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was worried.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It was a
surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to make a cover for
your wrist…a soft cover to keep it from hurting.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wanted to cry from the pain as Hin Lo treated my bullet graze
and my stob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pleased Mai Li was
okay and looking after me but I needed the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would some missionaries hire a killer to
come for her — killing all those people for a teenage Chinese girl?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That jasper outside
is the same guy that killed my men and your grandparents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He admitted he was hired to find you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hired by some missionaries,” I stated in a
stern manner.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li began to cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
just a weep, but a flood of wailing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
ran outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was tempted to follow her
but decided I needed to rethink our situation and take steps to let the
military know what had happened and why.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hin Lo, there has to
be a horse around here somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you go find it?” Then I turned
to the women.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Pink and Dao, go wrap that body in some
skins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll take it to Piños Altos in
the morning.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li had heard my commands and returned to the cave with the
dressed rabbits. She was still whimpering from her cry but was
functioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and the other women spitted
the carcasses on green tree limbs and then took two deerskins out to wrap the
old killer.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I hoped I was thinking clearly through all my pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not contacted the army and was probably
presumed dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mess down by
Lordsburg was probably listed as an Indian massacre and some tribe was being
punished for what that old hired killer had done.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I decided to sit on my pallet and rethink my plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My arm and wrist stob was still painful — I
wanted to sleep, but the smell of the roasting rabbit kept my tiredness at
bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li came through the opening and
walked directly to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She squatted in
front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“After we eat I will
tell you the truth, Pepper.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was surprised and pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She smiled and gave me a sensual touch on my good arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was about to respond to her when Hin Lo
pulled back the curtain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Horses — outside,” he
said in broken English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he spoke
five or six sentences to Mai Li. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Three horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One stallion with saddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One mare for pack. And a baby sucking.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">What went through my mind at that moment was horse ranch in this
hanging valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the dream drifted as
I considered our reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bring in the
packs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to see what we have.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Distracted by the treasures we acquired from the killer, Mai Li
didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
get a chance to tell me her story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
admit I fell asleep while all the camping equipment was admired and
stored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early morning was decision time
for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My head was clear and my pain
had subsided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the stob was faring
better after placing the rabbit skin glove over the tender scar tissue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Killer had willed us a coffee pot and even a
small doeskin pouch of roasted coffee beans. I showed the women how to smash
the beans and add them to boiling water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sipped coffee and took my time explaining our immediate future.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m taking the body
of the killer to Piños Altos and I’m taking Mai Li with me. We’ll take one
horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the way, Hin Lo, the male
horse is not a stallion, it’s a gelding; a stallion that has been
castrated.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li translated for me but
I’m sure he understood before she explained.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How long are we going
to be gone?” Mai Li asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m not sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days — perhaps a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It depends if I get to see some authority in
Piños Altos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we have to go on to
Silver City, it may be two weeks.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin lo asked a question of Mai Li for her to ask me. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He wants to know how
we are going to take the body if we only have one horse.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">“Mai Li and I will walk and pack the body over the saddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The body will only go as far as Piños
Altos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even If there is no authority
there, I just want an opportunity to have witnesses about to explain what
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the body is gone we will
ride double,</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”
I explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin Lo nodded his understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mai Li didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
need to translate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Since we found
seventy dollars in killer’s possible sack, I’m going to buy supplies so we can
survive the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure it’s what’s
left of the blood money. I have about forty dollars. We’ll have a grubstake and
should be fine if we continue to hunt and dry our meat,” I estimated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Pink served Mai Li and I rabbit for breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we ate, Hin Lo saddled the gelding. I
helped him load the body of the killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The horse was skittish at first but settled down after I let him take a
few steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was packing the killer</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s old Sharps fifty
and Mai Li had a small sack of provisions for us and the canteen we’d used to
trek all the way from Lordsburg. We were ready and yet we weren’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li had set some snares on her trap line
and wanted to show Dao where they were located.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We spent an hour running the snare line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dao walked back to the cliff dwelling with four more rabbits and we started
our walk to Piños Altos and we also began our talk.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Okay, Mai Li, explain
to me why some missionaries would hire that old killer to exterminate my men
and all of the coolies we were escorting in order to capture you?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">She didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidently she’d rehearsed what
she was going to admit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was borne on the
ship that brought us to your shores. My parents brought my father’s parents
with them to our new life in your country. Just before we reached California,
most everyone on the ship became ill, including the crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My parents died but my grandparents and I
survived the plague.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to my
grandparents, we were not allowed off the ship for several weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a religious group took us to their farm
outside of the city,” Mai Li related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was becoming bored with her story because it didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t explain why the
killer attacked us. “Can you skip some of the details?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are they after you?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was just explaining
my background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My grandparents were
given jobs on the big farm owned by the missionary group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like an orphanage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was raised there, went to school there and
had a job as a housemaid in the main house.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The story dragged on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
couldn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
seem to get her to understand that I needed to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To understand why I lost my left hand, why my
men and the coolies we were escorting were murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t understand my impatience.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The walk down the creek-bed was the most dangerous part of the
trail. We had to walk single file, so we were limited in our talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we reached the saddle that overlooked
the Mogollon river basin, the timber changed from alpine cedar, fir and fern to
Ponderosa pine intermixed with cactus. We stood on the banks of the small creek
as it fell over a small embankment and again disappeared underground. I chose
that spot to make camp for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We may as well camp
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Help me unload the corpse.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Unlike the hanging valley we had been living in for over a
month, the ridge on which we camped had a longer dusk and became cooler with
the updrafts from the Mogollon river basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mai Li moved her pallet next to mine after we ate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“When I was nine years old, everything changed at the
orphanage farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was bought by two
brothers who claimed they were the sons of god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pendegrast was their family name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They sent my grandparents away along with all the other workers on the
farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They replaced our teachers and
finally some of the older orphans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
the boys were sent off right after the bad brothers took over.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li leaned against my wounded arm as the dusk turned to
dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our small fire seemed to light the
world as the breeze blew our coals alive.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">My arm was beginning to heal. It itched like my stob did when it
was scarring over. I rolled up my sleeve to scratch the scab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li became very attentive and cleansed the
scabbing wound with water from our canteen. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Dao says you were very brave when you killed the old
man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were unarmed and he was
pointing the rifle at you,” Mai Li stated while she rolled down my shirt
sleeve.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I just went crazy is
all – not brave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re half way to Piños
Altos and you still haven’t explained why the missionaries sent a killer after
you,” I reminded her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li snuggled a little closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The
bad brothers were not missionaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were just the opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the first
nine years I had a good life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So did all
the other orphans and workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
William Prendergast purchased the orphanage farm, that all changed. I lost
contact with my grandparents for over a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the cook’s helpers, an older Mexican woman, found them and would
sneak messages back and forth.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was getting sleepy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was also impatient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Tell me why they are
looking for you?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know where all the
bodies are buried and I ran away to tell the authorities,” she stated with a
sob.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li finally got my attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Which
bodies?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“All the boys and all
the girls who wouldn’t give their virginity to the bad brothers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also every girl that got pregnant just
disappeared,” she explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Every
orphan girl who had their first menses was at risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once their bodies became womanish, they were
used by the brothers and then sent to the city to brothels owned by the Prendergast
family.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I had to ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something
in me caused a pain in my heart for this girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had known a lot of tainted women but I also had seen many young girls
in the brothels, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d always wondered why
they had succumbed to prostitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
I was getting an insight.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Did the brothers use
you and send you to a brothel?” I asked as gently as I could.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mai Li put her head
on my shoulder and sighed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I have
always looked young, I was slow to mature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since I was the maid in the main house, they just looked at me like
furniture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My menses came when I was fourteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to hide my womanhood for another
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the younger brother, Bobby,
tied me up and used me hard for two months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I was passed to William. Finally, after being a sex slave to both
brothers, I escaped and went to the find my grandparents.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Now I knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drowsiness
was winning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leaned back on the saddle
and closed my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let me guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You went to some Sheriff and he wouldn’t take
your statement because you are Chinese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So you joined a work detail in order to escape.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes, Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea they would send a killer to
find me and kill all of those innocent people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just because of me,” she sobbed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I woke up with my hat over my eyes but the sun on my face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t slept that sound or this long since before my arm had
been blown off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the cobwebs of
sleep left me, I understood why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
warm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mia Li was snuggled up beside me
and both our sleeping robes covered us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were sharing body heat and double doeskin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was looking at me as I became aware of
our surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You took off my
boots,” I mumbled.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled your hat down, loosened your belt,
and removed your boots. I would have done more to make you comfortable but you
were sleeping too hard,” she stated with a mischievous and slightly sensuous
grin.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It took a moment for that remark to sink in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was out of character and I certainly
liked her personality change. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
need to water the bushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you roll
our beds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to continue our trip.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Standing in the timber doing my morning business, my mind was
replaying the story I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
heard form Mai Li the evening before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
had been through a lot and was still being loyal to me; actually acting
seductive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it dawned on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old killer wanted her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not me but her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My reaction was to salve my situation by
taking the body to the authorities and reporting to the army; leading whomever
right to the girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt really foolish
and a bit ashamed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up until killer had
breached our hideout, I had always assumed the massacre outside Lordsburg had
been about me, not a seventeen year old Chinese girl.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mai Li, make a fire
and cook some of the grub we brought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m going to discuss a new plan with you,” I hollered from the creek.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Once I explained the reason I had changed my mind, Mai Li was
reasonable and actually pleased at my decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps the body of the old killer we were burying by caving in a dry
wash over his stinking corpse was a reminder of how dangerous it would be to be
observed or seen by anyone who might report her whereabouts to the Prendergast
brothers.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You can wait here or
we can ride double back to our hide-out, I suggested. I’m just going to Piños
Altos, to buy supplies — nowhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now that we have the killer buried, we really don’t need to hurry.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li washed her hands in the cool creek water. She gathered
needles from ground that had fallen from the pines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She handed them to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My puzzled look made her giggle. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Brush me off,
Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m filthy!”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I took the pine needles and did the deed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She returned the favor because we were both
dusty and dirty from burying the killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Just take me back to
the waterfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll walk back from
there,” she offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was skeptical but finally agreed to her suggestion that we
ride back up the disappearing creek toward our hanging valley. She suggested
this plan so I could take my time and perhaps carry more supplies to help
survive through the winter.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wanted to ride the gelding for a few yards before I let Mai Li
come aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The horse and I were
strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The saddle was worn but in
good repair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I swung aboard and turned
the horse around a few times. Since the killer and I were about the same size,
I didn’t need to adjust the stirrups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The gelding stepped right out and seemed gentle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reached out for the old Sharps being handed
to me by Mai Li.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked a few more
yards up the trail and then stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai
Li held out her hand and I was able to swing her up behind me from the off
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She circled my waist and then
reached around with her possibles pouch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hung it over the old Mexican style wooden horn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She squeezed me tighter as I reined the horse
toward the disappearing creek.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It took only an hour to reach the hidden creek waterfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trail was treacherous for man and
horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We dismounted and began climbing
the ghost trail that avoided the small cliff. Mai Li was leading the horse up
the switchback and I was scouting a better way up the cliff-side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked closely at the waterfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something seemed out of place — not
natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stones had been placed in such
a manner to provide steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to
investigate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Tie the horse to a
tree and come with me.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I looked over my shoulder and witnessed Mai Li loosening the
cinch on our horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That observance
impressed me.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As we walked on the stones toward the edge of the waterfall, I
took her hand and tried to step in each one in the direction the stones
pointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stones steps were small but
had large spaces in between; two steps for me — three for Mai Li. The coded
trail seemed to take us away from the waterfall and then veered under — into a
declivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked back at Mai Li.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big grin graced her youthful face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I glanced over her shoulder at the pattern of
the rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From my angle it was a
definite stepping pattern. The declivity was dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We inched along, our backs against the cliff
to prevent getting soaked by the falling water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The mist and spray was actually refreshing on this summer day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I felt it before I saw it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Two boulders formed the declivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was a crack in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was just barely able to squeeze through and pull Mai Li in with me. It was dark
but not bottom of a well dark -- light seemed to be coming from somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As our eyes adjusted to the darkness, it
became obvious we were in a cave behind two huge boulders I finally found a
match and struck it on the side of the boulder. I looked down to avoid getting the
flame in my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was standing near a
rock ring used to contain a campfire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Inside the rock ring were three stones that had obviously been placed
there to support a pot of some kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
noticed Mai Li move just as the flame went out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Light another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tinder,” she said.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I lit another match and when she placed an old bird</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s nest in the flame,
the small cave brightened to the point we could see details of another
civilization.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Look back there,
another opening!” she exclaimed as she bent to place the tinder and a few twigs
into the fire-pit. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Close to the fire pit was a matate and a mano; ancient
implements for grinding seeds to flour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the flame became steady, I looked at the small cave in which we
were standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was obvious that it
had been used as a kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clay pot
sherds were everywhere; the corduroy pattern was prevalent. I watched the
smoke; it rose directly overhead. A small opening high in the ceiling where the
two boulders formed to make the cliff was the outlet for the smoke to escape.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li had a couple of twigs aflame to make a torch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stepped toward the other opening, I
followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where did you find
the tinder and the twigs?” asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This
cave is barren of wood.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li giggled as she placed the min-torch into the opening of
the back cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I carry this in my
bag all the time. I’m the one who usually starts the fires if you recall.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The back cave was a bit smaller than the kitchen cave with a
much lower ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was barely high
enough for my six foot frame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hat
brushed the ceiling several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evidently this cave had been used as the residence; stones had been
stacked along three sides of the cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One looked like a granary and the other two were obviously sleeping
pallets. No one had been in this place for several hundred years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the pottery was intact and some were
painted with scenes from their ancient culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I noticed a couple of painted plates that were bawdy in nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d read about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was an ancient Mimbres home-site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That lower cave of
the cliff dwelling we use as hide-out in the hanging valley was inhabited by
the Anazasi ancients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a Mimbres
homesite and probably predates the Anazasi by two hundred years,” I stated just
as the torch burned out. A sliver of light from the small fire in the fire-pit
showed us the way out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We held hands to
negotiate toward the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I love this
place,” Mai Li stated with a giggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
love you,” I inadvertently blurted.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I had no idea where that proclamation came from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was fond of her, relied on her, worried
about her — very true, but that statement was way out of line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t take it back or even explain the feeling, so I just
remained mute.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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herself close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I responded by hugging
her in return — around her shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Chapter 6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li held my hand until we reached the gelding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had not spoken of my inadvertent
proclamation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were silent with our
thoughts. I untied the bay and cinched him tight again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt Mai Li pull down on my jacket
sleeve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked down and knew it was
time to kiss her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were clumsy but
finally embraced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Be careful, my dear
Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look for me here when you
return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to fix up this place
for us.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was surprised at the term of endearment but also her statement
about the Mimbres home-site and us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Us,
we, our; foreign words to my ears and mind.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why? Why the
waterfall cave?” I asked as I swung aboard the gelding.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My dear Pepper, it’s
our place — our special place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
has been in that home for over twelve-hundred years according to your knowledge
of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AND, that’s where you told
me you loved me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s ours!” she said as
she handed me the Sharps.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
argue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I should be back in a day or
two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’ll check here on my way back but
I really think you need to check on the others back in the valley.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m going there,
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be careful, Pepper!”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li turned and began walking up the trail to our hidden
valley camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turned the bay down the
trail toward our previous campsite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
mind was ablaze with emotions, plans, fears, and suddenly an odor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had just wiped some water off my face and
took a whiff of the military jacket I was wearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It dawned on me I had no other clothes.
Visiting Piños Altos in a Yankee uniform was not bright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put the gaddayup to the gelding and soon
we were near our campsite from the previous evening.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I tied the gelding near where we had buried the killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began digging him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I had him out of the sand and gravel, I
stripped his stinking old body and replaced his clothes with mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept my boots, skivvies and hat but was
able to fit into his buckskins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
immediately went to the creek and immersed myself, fully dressed, and began to
scrub with the sand from the bottom of an eddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of the blood and grease washed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ratty condition remained and some of the
odor — odors from campfires past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
pulled myself out of the water and let the sun dry me for a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I built a fire and placed a lot of green
wood on the flames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The smoke became
black as the flames licked at the green ponderosa pine limbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I moved around the fire so I could get full
effect of the smoke. I alternated — dry wood for flames and green wood for
smoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept moving so the buckskin
didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
get stiff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went into several coughing
fits during this phase of my ‘cleansing’.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">After an hour of this, I felt better about the odor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was relatively dry so I placed the wide
belt of the killer around his long buckskin jerkin. The belt had the scabbard
for the Bowie knife I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
taken from the killer during our fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now it was properly sheathed. I took my matches, cash, and clasp knife
and began looking for pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a
breast pocket, I found six gold pieces — twenty dollar denominations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laughed out loud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been in such a hurry to get him wrapped
and into the hands of the authorities; no one had gone through his
pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li and I had buried
one-hundred-twenty dollars; enough cash to provision our group for the entire
winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began to take stock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the seventy dollars I’d found in
killer’s possible sack, now the one-hundred-twenty, and my own measly forty-two
dollars; two-hundred-thirty-two dollars for provisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As a hunch, I looked in the two other pockets of the
jerkin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The buckskin leggings had no pockets or
folds. I inspected the rawhide belt again before I circled my waist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeared there was something sewn in the
middle but I chose to ignore it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out in
the wilderness I needed the belt more than extra cash. I knew I had enough. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The gelding had a mile eating fast walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was strong, smooth and gentle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not puppy dog gentle but seasoned, trained,
and intelligent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to his teeth,
he was coming seven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bay color was
like camouflage in the ponderosa forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His black hooves and legs indicated he</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d been sired by a mustang. I knew he was a keeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d not looked closely at the mare and filly.
But from what I had learned so far, the old killer had good taste in his gear
and horseflesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything except the
Sharps fifty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an old fashioned
buffalo gun, a single shot with a set trigger and heavy as hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For his profession it was perfect but for me
with only one hand it was not practical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keeping it balanced with my stob was a difficult task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspected I’d trade it off the next chance
I got.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 30-40 krag we’d packed all
the way from the Lordsburg massacre was being used by Hin Lo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a fair shot at close range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My pistol and holster were in the possession
of Dao.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d taught her how to shoot
properly but soon learned that she was no better than me — both of us major wasters
of ammunition.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">My mind wandered to many subjects as that mile-eating gait took
us closer to Piños Altos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
about my relationship with Mai Li, her problems in the past, making a home in
that hanging valley, collecting my back wages and mustering out bonus from the
army and setting things right, and lastly — </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">why didn</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t I rebury the
killer?</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I’d left him in my uniform, laying at the edge of the dry wash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have put him back in his shallow
grave and knocked some dirt over him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
vowed to remedy that oversight on my return trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It was full dark by the time I topped the ridge overlooking
placer creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see the lights of
some miner camps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I skirted the small
tent community in favor of reaching Piños Altos further up the opposite ridge.
Years ago when I had been in the area with the military, looking for Mangus
Colorado, I spent four days in the local hotel being treated for a broken arm
by the military medic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d liked the
town; it was a nice community that served the miners and Indian
reservations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The first place I needed to visit was the livery stable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My horse needed care. It was late but not bad
for a mining town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the front door
to the barn was open, one had to assume the hostler was up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dismounted and hollered hallo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A voice from inner shack answered me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Be out in a shake,” he said with a southern accent.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I recognized his voice from somewhere in my past. It was
distinctive. My mind dug way back in my history to make the connection to a
face — a young confederate corporal starved and sick who needed urging to crawl
out of the tunnel being dug at Rock Island prison.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">An Indian woman stepped out of the inner hut with a
lantern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She pointed to the stalls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You take any,” she said in broken English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My man there soon.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I nodded and walked the gelding to the first available
stall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was removing the saddle when
the hostler spoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I suppose you’re here
fer them saddle bags y’all left for safe keepin’,” said the hostler.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I set the saddle and blanket on the rack built into the stall
divider and then turned to face the hostler.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I recognized him instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Fuzzy,
you have me confused with some other jasper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been a long
time — a lifetime ago,” I stated. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“C’c’colnel Pyle?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that you Pepper?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought you was that Digger fella,” Fuzzy
stated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">My gelding was munching on hay in the manger and the Sharps was
leaning against the nearest post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gordon
Coffee looked at the horse and then the buffalo rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You got his horse and rifle, Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t forget them details -- His
clothes, too.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">We shook hands and I showed him my stob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He shot this off a few months ago and then tried to kill me
three days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose I’m entitled —
spoils of war, I guess. Tell me about yourself, Fuzzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard only you and Davey Blake made it
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone else from them forty-two
prisoners who went through the tunnel was captured or killed.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy looked at my stob when I pulled off the rabbit skin
sock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took a step back and a sadness
came over his demeanor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sorry, Colonel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You is a helluva good man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know why Digger was after you but I’m
glad you survived. Old man Tanner was hell on wheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit, half the towns-folks had trouble with
that mean tooth jasper! Especially my partner.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I issued the bay a can of cracked corn and forked him more
hay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy was rubbing him down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t speak for a few moments and then ex-corporal Coffee made
an offer. “Let’s go inside, Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
have my woman fix you some grub and we can talk.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
wife was Apache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her tribe was the
Mescalero Apaches being settled on a reservation near Fort Stanton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fixed me a steak while Fuzzy and I drank
a pot of coffee.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pepper, I’d offer
sumptin stronger but I went dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
partner, Will, put the rule down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Stop
drinkin or pull out’ he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the
notion he meant it so I ain’t pulled a cork for nigh on to four years.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I nodded and dug into the elk steak. We didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t talk until I
devoured everything but the bone and leaned back in my chair to finish another
cup of coffee.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I really needed
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for cuttin’ it up for me,”
I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Eating one handed still ain’t
natural for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have a smitty in
town?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need a hook.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Will and me own a blacksmith
shop, but our smitty left town to work for the mines in Silver City.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If I can borrow the
shop, I’ll build it myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ain’t
goin’ to Silver City,” I proclaimed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy nodded and then explained how he and his partner came
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will Palmer was working as a
clerk in the mercantile in Piños Altos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was Davey Blake</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
first cousin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s where they had come
to hide out after escaping Rock Island Prison.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We started jest
workin’ odd jobs and now we own half the town. Davey died of snakebite up by
Reserve while visitin’ his wife’s relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now its jest me ‘n Will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
take you to meet him in the mornin’”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Can I bunk in one of
the stalls?” I asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Take the loft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outhouse is out back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breakfast is at first light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Milly has hens, so we eat good — jest like
proper southerners,” Fuzzy chuckled as he went into a back room and came out
with a set of saddlebags.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“These are yourn” he
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Might as well have all the truck
of that damn ole Digger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe tomorrow
you can tell me yore plans. My helper will be here after breakfast and then we
can go see Will.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I took the saddlebags and draped them over my injured arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were heavy — not gold heavy, but
something substantial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carried them up
to the loft and then went back for my bedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was thinking of Mai Li a lot and decided to buy her some apache
buckskin clothing like Milly was wearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe some for Pink and Dao, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hin Lo was another story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
decided not to decide about him.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Finding an old friend in this town was fortuitous. I had not
told Fuzzy about Mai Li or her troubles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I just told of the massacre and the Chinese folks that helped me
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him very little; taking
responsibility for the killer, Digger who must have had a grudge against
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It was dark in the loft of that barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to check out the contents of the
saddlebags in the morning. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Clucking chickens, roosters crowing, and the slam of the
outhouse door brought me from a deep sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had slept warm because of the straw pile I chose plus the buckskin
clothing was a lot more practical than the Army uniform. The military boots
were uncomfortable with the buckskins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
decided to buy myself some new moccasins — apache style and maybe some new
buckskins.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">After visiting the outhouse, I sat near the upper window and
added several items to my list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
saddle bags were on my lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enough
light filtered through the window to allow for a preliminary inspection of the
contents; extra horseshoes, horseshoe nails, a small hammer, frog cutter and
hoof pick — useful ferrier supplies for a traveling man. There was liniment,
extra cartridges for the big fifty and some .45 long colt cartridges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I puzzled over them for a moment and then
opened the other side of the saddle bags. On top was a derringer; obviously .45
long colt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below that was a Colt
revolver, also .45 caliber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loaded the
derringer and placed it in a pocket of the buckskin shirt — down low where I
could reach it if necessary. I checked the loads in the Colt and then shoved it
under the belt; for a cross draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The remaining items in the saddle bag were a puzzler; a
crucible, a gold/silver scale and four molds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The molds were for unmarked coins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I puzzled over them for a few minutes and then began putting everything
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy hollered as I was coming
down the ladder.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Breakfast was a short affair because Fuzzy was anxious to get me
to the mercantile before it opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evidently he had sent his helper to the store to explain my presence and
early visit before opening hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will was expecting us and had coffee ready on the pot belly
stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their store seemed to contain a
little of everything; like most trading posts. Items on shelves behind the
counter were the most expensive — the guns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Once the introductions were made and the story of how Fuzzy and
I spent time in Rock Island, Fuzzy suggest I tell Will about the Lordsburg
massacre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">We spent the better part of an hour swapping stories and
retelling history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally Will came to
the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What are your plans,
Pepper?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you staying in the area?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’d like to file a
homestead on that upper valley where I’m living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe turn it into a horse ranch,” I speculated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will and Fuzzy shared a look and then turned back to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You can file a mining claim on it today, right here in this
store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A clerk will be here in an hour —
you need to go to Silver City to file the homestead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cattle would be more rewarding for you,
Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horses are cheap because of all
the Indians in the region,” Will advised.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I considered his recommendation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He seemed to be a slick businessman; much more savvy than his partner,
Fuzzy Coffee.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The little man inside me wondered why Fuzzy and his partner Will
kept wondering about my plans. Perhaps it was just their way of being friendly.
I dismissed the thoughts.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I noticed you didn’t
mention mining,” I said with a grin.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will and Fuzzy laughed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minin</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’ is kaput ‘round
here, Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a few lode claims
still bein’ worked over by tent city,” Fuzzy explained. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Not much is shipped
out of this region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silver and copper is
being mined down near Silver City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hear rumors that silver ain’t gonna be much longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Copper, however, is going strong,” Will
added.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Since Will was standing behind the counter, whenever I looked at
him I couldn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
help but notice a Henry repeating rifle hanging on the wall above his
head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagined in my mind how to hold
the weapon and work the lever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
suddenly realized how valuable the ‘big fifty’ was to me in my one-hand condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I could handle it somewhat expertly
once I had a hook on my wrist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The range
of the Sharps would be really advantageous for us during the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’ve given me a lot
of things to think about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll act on
the mining claim today. I need to research where to get cattle, but I need to
provision for the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell me again
about horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need a couple head,” I
queried.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We have a corral full
out behind the stable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take your pick
for twenty dollars a head,” Fuzzy offered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Right now I have
limited funds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we can discuss
the cattle idea next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s my
provision list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’ve money left over,
I’ll look for a horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I need
to borrow your tools to make hook for this stob!”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will looked at me and smiled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
can get some cattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You put them out to
pasture and we’ll split fifty-fifty. Take whatever horses you need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pay us next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not many takers now days and we’ll just have
to feed them come winter,” Will offered.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thanks, I may do
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take me to your blacksmith shop,
Fuzzy,” I said.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pepper, I noticed
you’re packing a Sharps ‘big fifty’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
many around these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My meat hunter
needs something like that for this fall and winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you consider a trade?” Will asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I got the same
problem as your meat hunter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need a
big bore to knock down the elk — our winter meat,” I stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’ll think on it while I’m hammerin’ out my
hook.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Making a hook for my stob was easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found a hay hook hanging on the wall and
once the forge got hot, I was able to form a new base with a three position
ridge for adjusting the angle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy ran
the forge bellows at first and then later he sent his young helper down to keep
the coals orange hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">This was the first time operating one-handed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew my way around blacksmithing; my father
had been a smitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When captured and
jailed as a POW in Rock Island, somehow the Yanks learned my family background and
worked me like a rented mule on short rations in their shop. I made a lot of
shackles. I had been worked hard but at least I had been warm and was able to
sneak an occasional tool to my men digging the escape tunnel.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I decided to make a fork hook, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would make feeding myself a lot
easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elk and mountain goat steaks
were on my winter menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I filed the
three tines sharp and then heat treated both apparatuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was tempering the steel when an older short
man came bursting into the shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Smithy, I have an
emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you help me right now?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I looked at the portly man and guessed him for what he was — a
drummer. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m
not the blacksmith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just borrowed the
tools to make a hook for my bum wing,” I explained as I held up my stob.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The old gentleman looked at the apparatuses I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d just taken out of
the tempering sandbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked at me
with genuine compassion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Them two units
has to have a hardwood base and a set of straps before you can use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can get my wagon horse shod, I’ll
whittle them bases and build the straps for you. I have everything I need in my
wagon.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Show me your horse,”
I requested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I looked at Fuzzy’s
helper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can you stay for awhile?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The kid nodded as the old man led a big Percheron mare into the
shop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, a young stud colt came
dashing in — missing his mama. He had some size but still wanted to nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How old is your horse colt?” I asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Six months… way too
old to be suckin’ the tit, but I move all the time so I ain't got no way to
wean the little bastard.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I lifted all the legs on the mare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was seasoned and didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t try to jerk around
or crush me. I began pulling the three remaining shoes and was able to trim her
feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually my stob was doing pretty
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sized her feet and began building
her shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I glanced up several times
and noticed the old gentleman working diligently on the wooden bases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Now that the sand is cooled, could you make
an impression with your stob?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to
get these bases hollowed to fit you perfectly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I took the time to make the impressions and then motioned my
helper to assist me in nailing the shoes on the mare. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The drummer handed me a wide leather strap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Put this around your wrist to protect it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s saddle leather.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">He was correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
protection enabled me to cut and clinch the nails without help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finished about the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He handed me the hook and the three tine
fork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried them on and was amazed at
my immediate increase in dexterity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
decided to experiment and selected a piece of steel used for making wagon
rims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it contained high carbon;
perfect for making a knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My helper,
who I learned was named Jeff, seemed anxious to learn so I began explaining
what I was attempting.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The drummer watched for moment and then asked what he owed me.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How much will you
take for that horse colt,” I asked as a response.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The drummer looked at me like I was crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I never considered
sellin’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just assumed no one would
want the little pecker head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ain’t
purebred Percheron.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What breed is his
daddy?’ I asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I dunno fer
sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think she was with some wild
stallion up near Fort Laramie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I had suspected that was the case because the colt was dunn
colored and had a black line down his back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His hooves and legs were also black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He showed mustang but was much larger because of his Percheron momma.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I continued forging the knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
large but it would be a good carver because the steel I had chosen would harden
easily and would hold an edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
still waiting for an answer from the drummer when Fuzzy arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeared the intrusion bothered the
drummer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Jest give me that knife you
made and I’ll let you have that peckerhead,” he announced in a whisper. “We’ll
call it square.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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and we shook hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drummer walked
out, so</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I ambled toward Fuzzy and held up the
hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my other hand I held the three
tine fork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now you don’t have to
cut my meat like a baby!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy was about to speak when the drummer came back into the
shop with a halter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He haltered the
horse colt and tied him to one of the anvils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then he led the Percheron mare out of the building. The colt went crazy
— kicking, jumping, sulling back on the stout rope and finally squealing like a
pig being slaughtered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What the hell?” Fuzzy
exclaimed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I walked to the stud colt and hooked my hook into his
halter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled his face down so we
could look each other in the eye. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Settle down you big baby,” I said in a stern tone while I
rubbed his withers with my right hand. He flared his nostrils two times like a
tough guy and then let out a sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Can I put this unweaned
stud in your horse pen for a day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
see if I have any cash left after Will fills my order. I might buy a horse from
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also put a roll of that wagon tire
steel on my bill,” I stated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Jeffry, take dis colt
down to di pens and put him in the stud corral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me ‘n Pepper are going to lunch and try out
that arm fork,” he said with a chuckle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I have one last task
in your shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give me a hand with the
bellows,” I requested as Jeff led the horse colt out of the shop.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I walked to the corner of the building where I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d left the big fifty.
I brought it back and leaned it against the anvil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cut several pieces of the wagon tire stock
and began heating two and them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
others I placed in my possible pouch. I pulled one piece out of the forge and
began wrapping it around the barrel of the Sharps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fashioned a strap hanger complete with
slots so I could adjust the sling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
heated it again so it would expand, tapped it gently in place, and then doused
it with water. It didn’t budge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a
second fastener for the stock to attach later. Once it was cool, I placed it in
my pocket, picked up the fork attachment, took off the hook, and strapped on
the tines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I placed the hook over my
belt, picked up the Sharps and motioned toward the door. “Lock up Fuzzy, it’s
time to fork my steak!” I said with a chuckle. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
surprised Will had joined us for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The cafe belonged to their company but I also knew they had been
discussing me and my plans while I was doing my blacksmithing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one had ever been so concerned with my
future plan as these two new friends. Well, maybe Mai Li.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let me repeat this so
I totally understand,” Will stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You
made the hook you have in your belt, that fork you have jammed into the steak,
You shod a workhorse, forged a knife, made a sling bracket for your rifle all
before lunch?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe I need to
rethink the offer I was about to make to you.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I nodded, never looking up from my meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tines were fantastic, but the look on
both their faces when I put those devil tines in my mouth was priceless.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If you go see the
Apache women behind the church, they will take your measurements and have your
buckskins and mocs ready by morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
squaw clothes are ready now,” Will advised. “They just delivered them to our
store.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thanks, I’ll go past
there straight away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m anxious to get
out of these ragged clothes. What’s my bill? Including this meal, lodging, and
found for my horse?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to pull out
in the morning.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Zero if you come back
and be our blacksmith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll pay you
sixty dollars a month and provide a furnished house,” Will offered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m a one-armed
smithy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t be able to do all the
work to justify my salary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s what
I’m willing to do, however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll come
here every two weeks for two days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You stack
up the jobs, pay me twenty dollars for each day plus put me up in Fuzzy’s loft
and three meals a day — right in this here cafe. Assign that young man Jeff to
help. He’s eager to learn and I’m a pretty good teacher.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy and Will shared a look and each nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Deal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your bill is
seventy-four-dollars including that steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s no charge for meals or hay loft accommodations,” Will stated.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Swell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll go get measured and then choose one of
your horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll come to the store
after that to settle up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the clerk
available so I can file my mining claim?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will nodded in the affirmative and we all stood to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pointed to my Sharps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’ll trade you that Henry you were looking at and throw in
two hundred rounds of ammo.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Look at me Will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would need both hands to steady that Henry
— one to hold the forestock and another to lever the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll stick to the long shooter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll need it for winter game.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Chapter 9</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I was in and out of the Apache clothing hut in nothing flat; the
women measured me with sticks and rawhide strings. One woman spoke broken
English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I communicated with her and in
kinda of a sign language I used with Dao and Pink. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wandered down to the horse corrals and looked at my new
stud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior was still acting like a
baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was alone in the stallion
corral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to let the other
horses teach him some manners, so I opened the gate that separated them and let
him mingle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was kicked, bitten and
thoroughly mauled by a mare that would not stand for him trying to suck.
Jeffery left the barn and came out to watch my selection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowly moved through the herd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the horses were Indian ponies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found two young mares that had the
confirmation I desired and maybe had some mustang breeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were calm but leery of me. They ignored
Junior when he approached.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Them ain’t broke to
ride, Pepper,” Jeff offered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I nodded and hazed them into the stud corral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I closed the gate and walked toward the
barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do me a favor and feed those three some grain along with
hay this afternoon.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">When I arrived at the trading post, Will was waiting on a couple
of customers.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I attended to my mining claim straightaway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I filed on the section of the lost creek that
included the Mimbres waterfall site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
filed another near the headwaters of the same creek, above the cliff
dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clerk set out to prepare
the papers and the sketches I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
provided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had some time so I decided
to look more closely at Will’s inventory. I picked out a coil of hemp rope, a
couple of horsehair halters, and a rawhide bozal. I was looking at the cloth
and ribbons when Will approached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
selected some of everything I got in inventory for your squaws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way when you come back you’ll know their
favorites.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I took what I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
selected to the counter and asked for a small spade and a gold pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I selected two young mares; a dun and a
grulla; both unbroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll give you
thirty for the pair,” I offered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Will screwed up his face and then stuck out his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Deal! I’ll tally your bill.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh, sell me some
galena lead — about three pounds,” I added as an afterthought.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy came through the door just as Will returned with my bill
and receipt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began counting out the
exact change to settle up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What’s with the
bozal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Training a bronc?” Fuzzy asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In a way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior will wear it upside down once I modify
it to give him some manners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’ll lead
like a veteran by the time he’s living in the tall grass of my homestead,” I
speculated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Will — Fuzzy, years
ago I invented a special folding knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will make one and bring it down in two or four weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you like it, I expect you to buy them from
me and be the reseller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You won’t make
much money, but eventually what we make will be converted to cattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll pay one half of every cow our
partnership buys, you arrange delivery but you only get a third when we
sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think it over and give me an
answer when I return.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sounds fair
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many head?” Will asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Let’s start with a
bull and two cows.” I said as a joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fuzzy laughed, Will didn’t.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Once I received my papers on the mining claim, Fuzzy and I took
everything I’d purchased to a vacant stall in his barn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used the remaining daylight to make six
light packs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each horse would be packing
two sacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior would pack a bit more
because I was winding rope strands around the coil of buggy wheel steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once finished, it would resemble a horse
collar; the weight would keep his head down. Tossing his head would be knocked
out of him by the lead weight I suspended from the bozal. The pain-relief
training had been proven successful in the cavalry — now it was being applied
to my own stock.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I thought about Mai Li a lot while I was braiding lead lines and
fashioning hobbles for the three acquired horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was setting ideas into motion that would
keep all five of us busy and perhaps prosperous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Mai Li was not able to go outside until
the Prendergast brothers were eliminated, I needed to get her involved in
building our estate. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Jeff came into the barn as I was loading the last homemade
panniers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked at what I had
accomplished with my one hand and complimented me. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pepper, I seen your
stob when you first come here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All it
had was some rabbit fur covering yore flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, you do things like no one I ever seen.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Nodding at his compliment, I took off my hook and attached the
tines. I took out the Bowie knife I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d used on Killer and fastened it to the tines with
twine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Let’s go see how this works by
giving them horses a haircut.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Since I was using rope to fasten the pannier sacks over the
backs of the horses, I needed something to use as a cushion between their
withers and the ropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had fashioned
three sets of breast collars and britchens out of rope, too.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Jeff and I trimmed manes and tails of all the horses in the
corrals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stuffed the horsehair into
six small flour sacks and tied them off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They looked like pillows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
tossed one up in the loft to use that night. By grooming the horses, the stock
looked better and I had a dual purpose reason for harvesting the hair.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy and Milly had invited me to take supper and breakfast with
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was washing up when Fuzzy arrived
with a strange woman — she was Apache but nobody I had seen before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a set of low cut moccasins in her
hand.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sunrise, here, wants
yore boots fer the nite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She and her sis
is makin’ them hitoppers fer ya.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I shucked my boots and handed them to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She motioned to a bench by the wash
basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat down and she removed my
socks, washed my feet and slipped on the mocs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were lined with some kind of soft fur and were really comfortable.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Fuzzy</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
woman, Milly, had spent most of the day in the kitchen preparing our supper
plus some loaves of bread for me to take to our camp. It was a pleasant time
with good food. No one had to help me feed myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dexterity was improving by the
minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was almost two handed again.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy told many stories
of the experiences he and Davey had encountered being on the run from Yankee
soldiers in the northern and western states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I chronicled my time as a galvanized Yankee and my subsequent
re-enlistments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy also related the
advantages of having a life partner like Milly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was certainly impressed. We had a mutual admiration for each other and
the beginning of a long friendship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Combine a circus with a rodeo and toss in a few crazy ideas is
the way to describe the morning of my departure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy, Will, Jeffrey, Milly, the Apache women
who brought my high-tops, and even the old Apache woman who</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d delivered my
buckskin clothes all were in attendance trying to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior was the scamp, but it was my fault. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It had taken an inordinate amount of time and patience to get
the three unbroken horses loaded and tied three abreast; Junior in the middle
with a mare on each side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no
surprises; they fought, bucked, reared, and even bit Jeffery when he wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my boots and high-tops were delivered I
chose to tie them on the back of Junior without packing them into the
panniers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose to wear the low-tops
because they were so danged comfortable. I had twine connecting each boot which
in turn was connected to each hightop moc. Evidently the soles of the boots
were stiff enough to gouge Junior when the two mares moved against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Junior went to bucking — the mares followed but with less
vigor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bozal and lead weight kept
the colt in constant agitation. I finally took my Bowie and cut the rope that
held the footwear in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then took
my hook and grabbed the colt by the bozal and pulled his head down to look him
in the eye again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rolled his eyes and
laid back his ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I twisted the bozal
and rubbed his forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw the light
go on in his brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You’re going to
behave or be my meal tonight,” I threatened in a soothing tone.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I knotted the twine and tossed the footwear over the gelding in
front of the saddle — something I should have done from the beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I said my goodbyes and lined them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My progress was erratic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to ride downhill toward Tent City which
put slack in my lead ropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trio in
training balked, sulled, and tried to run the gelding over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My gelding kicked Junior in the chops — he
began minding his manners. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As I approached the outskirts of Tent City, I chose a route to
avoid anyone</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
camp or claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was difficult with
three abreast because of the narrowness of the trail through the heavy timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had small difficulty on upward inclines but
downward was troublesome for Junior; he was kicked twice more by my gelding, so
he sulled when we dropped into a shallow creek-bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water spooked him and he reared to avoid
getting his hooves wet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both mares
charged forward and Junior fell to one side with his antics; the result was
comical until two men charged out of the timber with shovels and shouts.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I pulled up to let the horses settle down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bigger of the two miners raised his
shovel in a threat to hit my gelding.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Woah, pard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s your problem?” I hollered.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You messed up our
claim,” the younger of the two replied.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Since the smaller and younger man was leaning on his shovel, I
suspected I could reason with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
burly guy was still threatening my gelding with his assertive behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Put the shovel down and be reasonable,” I said in a calm
voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m just making a crossing and I
have three green horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry if I
muddied your digs.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The burly guy lowered his spade and took a step forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behind me the horses were settling down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior was still tossing his head being
bonked by the lead weight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You owe us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pay up or I’ll smash your horse’s leg,” he
threatened as he spat a stream of tobacco.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">They were too confident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I must have looked like a greenhorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I suspected there was another in the timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were hiwaymen, not prospectors.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Judging from the geldings ears, I guessed I was boxed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shooter had to be in the trees – in
front, slightly to my left, the younger was to my right, and the burly guy was
left center, up close to my horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, shit,” I
cursed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s just money to let me
pass, I’ll pay. I got a squaw waitin’ to shuck my corn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C’mere,” I said to the burly guy with a
little tremor in my voice, like I was afraid.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I reached into my pocket to pretend I was reaching for coins and
palmed the belly gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The burly guy lowered
the spade and approached my left side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
reached out with my hook and snagged his shirtfront.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yanked him close and then drew the
derringer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A moment later, I had the
hook behind his head and the pistol barrel in his left eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Tell your guy in the woods to show himself!” I ordered the
younger man.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Nothing happened, so I dug the hook in deeper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The burly guy let out a blood curdling scream
and the man in the trees stepped out with one hand raised, a cap and ball
pistol in the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Drop the pistol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You, on my right, go stand beside your
shooter!” I barked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Both men obeyed the order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The antique pistol was on the ground and the young guy stood beside the
timber guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The burly guy was stock
still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I undallied the lead ropes and
turned the three abreast loose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I
released the pressure with my hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Burly went to his knees and then rolled to his side. I dismounted and
looked at Burly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was bleeding from
the back of his head.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Come here and attend
to this dummy,” I yelled.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Both men walked down the rise and came to stand in front of me;
looking at Burly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">While they were walking, I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d pocketed the derringer and had drawn the Colt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still had the Sharps on a sling across my
back. Once the would-be hiwaymen squatted near the guy on the ground, I pulled
back the hammer on the Colt and covered all three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This rifle slung over my back is accurate up
to six-hundred yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s about to
that hump in the trail back yonder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pick
up this trash and get to that spot or I’ll kill all three of you right here!”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The woods guy and the younger got Burly to his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was really unstable, but they got moving
down the trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They waded the shallow
creek and I began rounding up the horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I discovered that the gelding ground tied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was certainly a bonus. I finally
unscrambled the three green horses and tied them nose to tail; Junior in the
lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once remounted, I looked over my
shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three hiwaymen were on the
knob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to fire a round in their
direction but knew it would scare the bejeebers out of the young horses. I
picked up the two spades and the cap and ball pistol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed to work but it hadn’t been cared
for. I put it in my possible sack – I would use it for decoration or trading stock.
I tied the spades to the back of the dunn mare.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The pack horses got much calmer once we began pulling the grade
to the spot where I planned to stop and rebury Digger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew the rocks and upward grade would tire
them to the point of exhaustion by the time we reached the crest of the ridge.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li filled my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had so much to tell her and so many plans to share, I felt giddy as we reached
the place where we</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
camped and she’s shared her story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
wounds were so much better than when we shared our blankets for the first time
and she’d declared her intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
anxious to show her my left arm dexterity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m sure I blushed at the thought.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">When I reached the dry wash where I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d left the killer, I
discovered nothing but scattered bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the clothing was gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wolves, buzzards or coyotes were likely culprits for eating the flesh and
scattering the remains, but critters were not guilty of taking the Army
Uniform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked for tracks but saw
only prints of animals and birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
assumed Indians had taken the clothes.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I decided to continue to the waterfall area — the legal mining
claim I had on the Mimbres dwelling. I took a mental inventory of what I was
bringing back for all five of us and what I planned to leave at the
waterfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered if Mai Li had
followed through and returned to our secret place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A large part of me wanted to see her at the
waterfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sensible part of me
suspected that she</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
lost the notion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Chapter 11</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Not only was Junior foot-sore from walking the rocky trail, he
was dog tired from the short journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The extra weight around his neck that he was carrying may have
attributed to his weary gait, but I suspected it was all the energy he’d spent
being a baby and a dickhead. Junior no longer tossed his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bozal and lead weight had taught him a
lesson. He no longer kicked at the mare behind nor did he bite the gelding,
leading him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In two or three pack trips,
he would be well trained. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I rode past the waterfall to the small meadow above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just tied Junior and the mares. I stripped
off the bridle of the gelding and let him graze while I walked back down the
trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was carrying one of the three
spades I now owned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One I had purchased
and two acquired as spoils of war from the hiwaymen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still packing the big fifty across my
back, and of course was armed with my derringer, the Colt, and the Bowie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chuckled to myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There had been a time in my Galvanized Yankee
life I wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
allowed anything but the Army issue 30-40 krag; and then only during eminent
danger.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As I approached the steps, I noted small pebbles on each
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspected Mai Li was giving me a
sign. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Once behind the waterfall I tapped the boulder with my
hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew she was listening for my
boot steps, but I was in mocs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stealth they afforded was a bonus to their comfort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mai Li, its
Pepper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you here?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I heard her before I saw her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her squeal of delight echoed off the outer cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I saw the light — a torch with enough
candlepower to light both rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li
ran to me dropped the torch into the fire pit and jumped to encircle my neck
with her arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kissed, and it was not
clumsy like the first time.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I finally lowered her to the ground and took her hand as she led
me to the back room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly she
stopped and ran back to get the torch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The light illuminated the smaller cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The room was spotless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bed
frames had been repaired with mud and rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pine boughs had been placed on each bed frame but several deer hides
were only on one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked closer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bed had been expanded — to sleep
double.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li looked at me in my ragged
but clean buckskins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You took the clothes
of the killer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it — Hin Lo was
wrong.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Explain, please,” I
muttered as she lit a smaller torch that hung on the wall near the entry of the
smaller cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She extinguished the large
torch by covering it with a small hide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dimmer light cast shadows in our bedroom. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“An Indian youth came
to our upper camp looking for work and he was wearing your army clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo was sure you had been killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believed the Indian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said he found the clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked him where, he described where we
camped.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So what happened to
the Indian?” I asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hin Lo has him tied
up in the granary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pink is guarding him
with your pistol.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I laughed at her description of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indian youth being held by Pink who was such
a sweet young woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You say he came
looking for work?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Enough about the
Apache boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are going to seduce me,
my dear Pepper,” she said as she approached and began removing my wide
belt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I agree,” I said as I began
lifting her dress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m starved for
you!”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It took us three trips to the horses in the upper pasture to
unload all I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
purchased and carry it back to the Mimbres cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mai Li was astounded at all the extra horses
and supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat in the outer cavern
and sorted items for the upper camp or our private place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was surprised at what Mai Li wanted for our
secret home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d only decided the gold
or silver coin tools to be relegated to the waterfall hideout. I was also going
to leave the spade and gold pan. But Mai Li chose a lot of staples for
emergency supplies; also candles. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Before the last trip to the Mimbres home-site, we hobbled all
four horses and turned them loose to graze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was hoping we didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
have another circus performance in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It took two tries but I finally pitched a rope over a high branch in
order to haul the saddle and the roll of buggy wheel steel into the top of a
tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I placed stone markers around the
section I’d described in the claim drawing. Our lower claim was now legal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had every intention of building a sluice
box and installing it below the waterfall; mostly for show because if there was
color in this stream, someone would have already claimed it. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li was roasting a haunch of venison that she</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d brought from our
upper camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Han Li had shot three deer
just before Mai Li had arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most had
been jerked for winter food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The haunch
that was over our fire had been partially smoked to preserve it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I switched my hook for the fork apparatus and
Mai Li went into a fit of laughter watching me put it on. Her laugh was
infectious and soon we both had tears running down our noses. In my thirty-four
years, I couldn’t remember ever being this happy.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What are your plans,
Pepper?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see things you bought or
traded for that makes no sense to me but I’m sure you have a reason,” Mia Li
asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Get ready for a long
story, my dear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was in college when
the war broke out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of my classmates
joined to fight the Yanks. I wasn’t anxious to serve but I felt a duty to help
my home state of Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished my
first year and then dropped out and joined the Texas Rangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was with them less than a year when the
command I was under had been pulled back from fighting Comanches on the western
frontier, and assigned to guarding shipments of supplies for the army in East
Texas. Since I was involved in the war effort anyway, I spoke with a few high
ranking officers and was promised an officer ranking if I enlisted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d only had one year of college but it
qualified me for the rank of Lieutenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After a few skirmishes with the Yanks, I was promoted to Captain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By age twenty-two, I was a Colonel. By age
twenty-three I was captured and sent to the Rock Island Yankee prison camp in
Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time of my confinement,
I was the highest ranking officer in that prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I developed a plan for an escape tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I organized the men, provided digging
implements and when it was finally used, created a diversion so some of the
prisoners could escape. The warden eventually figured out my involvement and
gave me the choice to be a galvanized Yankee or face a firing squad.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Yes, that is a very
interesting story, Pepper but you didn’t answer my question. “What are your
plans?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m getting to
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forty-two men escaped through that
tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only two got plumb away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only one is alive today and he lives in Piños
Altos. I spent two days with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
an Apache wife — they are a team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
a partner in the business — I’m not sure about him, but I admire what Fuzzy and
his wife, Milly has created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s his
true partner and I believe I have a woman who is just as good if not better.
We, my love, are going build an estate in which to be proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the resources already — A chunk of
land, perfect for development, people we can trust; Hin Lo, Dao, Pink, Fuzzy in
town, and maybe this Indian kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Employees, partners, collaborators — all these are precious resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I intend for us to help them help us.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li was silent for a moment, digesting what her new life
partner was explaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I’m not sure I
totally understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give me an example.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hesitate. I took one of the flour sacks filled with horsehair and handed it to
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Look inside.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What do you see?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I see horsehair
stuffing for a pillow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think rabbit
skin or feathers would be better,” she surmised.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I took the sack from her and held a handful of the hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I see Pink or Dao using this hair to braid halters,
cinches, bridles, and reins. Whoever crafts something we can sell will receive
a small commission. Helping us help them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Same with Hin Lo with some other handcraft products or excess game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fuzzy and Will own the trading post — it
serves this entire area; even Tent City and part of the reservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to make a special knife to
sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why I bought the carriage
wheel steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every dollar we make can go
into livestock.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I went on to explain my part time job as a smithy and my
arrangement with Will about the cattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I intend to run two brands on this place; one with my minor partners and
then our own brand.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I held up my fork with the tines straight up
and then turned my wrist down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Devil
Tine or Turkey track -- Which do you like?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Junior no longer needed the bozal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fitted with just his halter and a lead
rope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put him in the second
position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grulla mare seemed to have
the most sense, so I didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
attach her to a lead rope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wore a
horsehair halter but was free to just follow along.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I noticed Mai Li inspect all the tack before we started the last
leg of our journey. She would build the first hair halter — I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d bet on it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After we started up
the trail, Mai Li was full of questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her concern was about the horse ranch side of our future, not raising
the cattle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If horses are cheap,
why do you want to raise them?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
asked from behind as we rode double. “That would be labor and investment
without any profit?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Horses are cheap now
because there are so many of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
raise hundreds on the reservation out by Reserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cattle are just the opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silver City is starved for beef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most miners don’t use horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they buy one, it’s not the ‘Indian pony’
style.” Ranchers and cowboys want some horses with certain traits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who drive buggies and spring wagons
want some size and strength. The army has high standards – the Indian ponies
won’t meet those requirements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re
going to have a breed of horse like none other. Our half-draft, back there will
sire some magnificent horses over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The secret is eliminating the inbreeding and choosing the correct
mares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horses are our long term future,
Mai Li.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cattle will be for the immediate
future.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">When we reached the headwaters of hidden creek, I staked the
claim as I had shown it on the sketch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now we had two legal mining claims. Baby steps to getting title to our
ranch. The meadows from the lower vista seemed endless. I was really glad to be
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The love nest was special, but
this hanging valley defined magnificent.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin, Dao, and Pink were near the dead-falls when we rode up. A
pile of branches suggested they were laying in firewood. There was an ax in one
of Junior’s panniers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew life would
be much easier now that we had returned with supplies and basics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was determined to turn our hide-out into a
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Our arrival was a festive affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed that the others sensed there was a
change in our relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I
entered the cliff dwelling I could see some recent construction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also met their prisoner — a young Apache
man wearing my military blouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
motioned to Hin Lo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Turn him loose… he’s
not guilty of killing me!” Mai Li didn’t need to translate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I handed my Bowie to Hin and he cut the
rawhide bonds off the grateful young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Thank you!” he said in English. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What is your name and
why did you come here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you know
this place?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The young man rubbed his wrists to regain circulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked me straight in the eye and didn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t blink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see some intelligence and courage in
the youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Brian Roscoe is my
name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am eighteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father is the Methodist minister to the
reservation, my mother is Mescalero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am a half-breed who speaks three languages; Mescalero, English, and Spanish.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I liked the fire this kid had in him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proud but rebellious.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li nodded her concurrence as she and Dao went about
unloading the panniers.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You didn’t answer the
last part of my question.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I belong to a society
who worships the gods of the ancients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know of all of the ancient sites,” Brian said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I was at this place of the ancient once
before when I was very young. The time of the treaty signing.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I did some mental math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You were six years of
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was here, too — in the Army.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">The young man grinned and blushed as he looked at the soldier
blouse he was wearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He noticed my
notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was cold — I have the jacket, too. The animals had
started on the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just took the
soldier clothes.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I shrugged my shoulders and turned toward the opening to
outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where is the jacket, now?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I asked in passing.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I left it in the
ancient dwelling on the other side of the underground river.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I wasn</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’t
aware of the place he’d described.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Will
you show me this place?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He nodded in the
affirmative.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">As I stepped into the sunshine, the first thing I noticed was
the mare and foal inherited from Digger who I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d left behind to graze, had come to visit the gelding I
named Bay. They had obviously buddied with my gelding that had yet to be
unsaddled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mai Li was attempting
to remove the rope wrapped coil of steel around Junior’s neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual, the baby half-draft was being
difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian, who had followed me
outside, went to assist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He calmed the
stud in short order, removed the collar, and grabbed a handful of weeds and
grass and rubbed the horse colt down; even under his belly which should have
gotten him kicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I observed as he
continued to work with the two green mares and then he began grooming the filly
and her momma. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I unsaddled the gelding, gave him his customary rubdown and let
him have a good roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turned back to
my inner group and pointed to the kid. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Any objection if I hire this boy?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li translated and everyone</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s face brightened - Hin Lo grinned. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You are a good man,
Pepper Pyle,” she stated as she patted my knee.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We are like a family
here in this valley. If everyone pitches in, we can all have a good life,” I
advised.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li again translated as I turned to return to the cliff
dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We needed to revise the
structure a bit to allow for storage of our winter supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made some suggestions to the women and then
picked up my big fifty, slung it over my shoulder, grabbed the old .30-.40 Krag
rifle, and walked outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I motioned to
Hin Lo and Brian to join me.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Brian is going to
show us a new area in this hanging valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We may as well hunt while we learn our territory,” I suggested as I
handed the military rifle to Hin Lo. I also gave him a handful of cartridges.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Brian, lead us to
where you’ve been staying here in the valley.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I heard something behind me as we set off across the
meadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior was following us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chuckled as the knothead passed Hin Lo and
me and tagged along behind Brian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Brian, how would you
like to be our wrangler?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No pay to begin
with, just food and board, but when we get a ranch going you can receive pay
and maybe bonuses,” I asked politely.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Brian turned and looked at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
came here for a job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes I will work that
way.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin looked at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What me?” he asked as
he raised the rifle over his head.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hunter and herdsman,”
I replied.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Hin grinned and waved the rifle again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He understood hunter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d have Mai Li explain the herdsman part.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mister Pepper, what
do you want me to do first?” Brian asked.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Get settled in with
one of the cliff houses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We chose the
one on ground level initially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pick any
other — fix it up, and then start breaking those mares to ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want all the horses on this place to be
able to ride, drive, and pack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus
teach everyone here how to ride.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Even this half
draft?”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Yes, especially,
Junior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can wait for him to mature a
bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s only six months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In between breaking and training, you can be
my helper, hunt with Hin Lo, and just make yourself useful.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Our walk through the woods produced meat for the table and meat
for preservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two mule deer were
dressed and hanging in a short ponderosa pine to be picked up on our way
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Junior bolted into a full run when the first shot was fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assumed he would go back to our small horse
herd — that</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
the direction he had headed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw
several wild turkeys running through the timber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Looks like I need to trade for a shotgun,” I
said to no one in general.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Brian stopped and turned back to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I can trap most any bird you want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The less shooting here -- in this valley, the
better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancients are at rest here.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I respected his reverence to the ancients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as we were all fed and some
provisions were put aside for the winter, I was not concerned how the results
were achieved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">We broke through the timber into a natural clearing around four
hundred acres in size, rectangular shaped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The meadow was dotted by ponderosa pines twice as big as the others in
the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grass was twice as tall as the
other meadows, suggesting natural sub irrigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clearing sloped away from the timber to a
small lake in the bottom left hand corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was magnificent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind raced
to all the benefits of having this sub irrigated pasture for growing winter
feed; then to how to harvest and store</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the feed.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Brian pointed to the small grove of cottonwood trees near the
pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That’s another ancient home site — over that ridge.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">My mind was planning all the while inspecting the roof portion
of the old Anazasi cliff dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
meadow stopped at a small seep that filled the pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hundred yards past the cottonwoods was a
cliff — built into the cliff was a small cliff dwelling. It had a short plateau
at the bottom level that appeared to be a ledge of an extremely sheer cliff
which dropped to a river below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Across
the river ravine was the foothills of a snow capped mountain range. The Anazasi
dwelling was almost intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the
ruins back at the camp by the beaver pond, this relic was pristine. I took a
seat on some rocks at the edge of the pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were different — like the ones in the fire pit at the waterfall
Mimbres love nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked up a small
stone about the size of a goose egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was heavy — almost gold or lead heavy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
sat there inspecting the stone when Hin Lo approached. He pointed to the
sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he pointed to each stone like
the one in my hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His gestures
confirmed what I had suspected; these were meteorites. Some of the stones were
as large as a milk bucket</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I counted a total of sixty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew there were probably more under the
soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this entire hanging basin
had been created by a meteor hitting the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Imagining the uses for the stones enforced what I had been
considering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we should move our
camp to these ruins — not so ruined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
meteorite stones would make an excellent forge and perhaps even an anvil.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I looked at the tree line above the sub-irrigated meadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be easy to fence out the stock and
preserve our hay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storage to keep it dry
was another problem that could be solved later.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I envisioned the enormous effort in moving, but then considered
the benefits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the help of friends
and now the horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had very little
money but I had a part time job that could fulfill our needs over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were also set for winter as long as the
wild game held out. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I decided to look at the ruins again and to explore to the base
of the units.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I motioned Brian and Han
Li over to discuss further exploration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I guessed there was probably a set of stairs from the top to the bottom
of the dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancients would have
had a way to negotiate the various levels if they were under siege.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We scouted the top floor, where Brian had
slept several nights and stored the military jacket. Hin Lo discovered a crawl
space to the dwelling next door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian
went through and announced he</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d
found a set of steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It took us an hour to negotiate the labyrinth of stealthy
connections to the rooms and floors of the ruins. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was standing near the
left side of the lower floor, scanning the cliff to the river below when I
heard water running; just a few drips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
explored and found water coming from under several rocks inside the
building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I crawled outside, careful not
to fall over the rock shelf, and saw what I</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ancients had built a quasi-aqueduct into the cliff dwelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was impressed. The Ancients had my
vote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder they had a cult
following among the Mescalero.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I planned to discuss the new plan with Mai Li since we were life
partners, but, it was a done deal in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This would be a very practical ranch headquarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would have to give me a very strong
reason for not shifting to the Meteorite Ruins.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I went back to the spring that fed the pond. It looked adequate
for our needs even though it was summer. I drew a sketch in the dirt when I
decided to build a forge out of the meteorite stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I arranged the outer shell size and then had
my guys begin bringing me the stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was going to be double walled with the air draft hole in the side — lower to
the bottom, and the fire pit would be large enough for me to make a scythe or
two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo grasped the concept and kept
giggling aloud as we stacked and fitted the stones. Soon, it was waist high and
large enough to accommodate anything we would need to create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">We walked to the pond and washed up before heading back to our
camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I visualized our future fence, the
timber we could cut to build structures, and I visualized the ranch full of
cattle and horses. This was a defining day for the future of everyone in our
multi-cultural family.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Junior was grazing near the tree which held the deer
carcasses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian approached him and
brought him closer to the dead meat. The colt shied at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian placed his hand in the carcass cavity
and then rubbed it on Junior</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s
nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo and I watched patiently as
the young man loaded one carcass and then the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were balanced on the colts back with no
fastening and the colt was without a halter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Brian stood for a moment and then walked toward the camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Junior followed like a puppy. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Young mister Roscoe
is an animal magician,” I whispered to Hin Lo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure he understood, but he nodded in agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was anxious to
explain my thoughts to Mai Li so we detached ourselves from the others and
walked to the beaver pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t see where it
would cause much of a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All we
have to really rebuild are the drying racks for making jerky,” Mai Li
stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can you take me there later so
I can see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to be alone with you.”
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brian spent several
hours before our evening meal erecting and describing the various methods of
trapping birds in our high valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
built three cage-like structures out of willow branches and installed them over
holes he had previously dug with the spade. Each hole was about eighteen inched
deep with a ramp on one end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His cages
were a foot high and were anchored by driving forked stakes into the
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then wove brush and limbs
into the cage to camouflage it and darken the interior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once securely fastened to the ground, he
placed seeds from grasses he’d gathered into the bottom of the hole and made a
trail of the bait leading to the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Brian explained that turkeys or quail would peck their way down the open
ramp but once in the bottom of the hole they would raise their heads and not be
able to find their way out; as the entry ramp was too low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could taste the flavors of roasting
turkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian also suggested that he
could build some fish traps in the river below the ancient ruins we had just
visited and I intended to make our new headquarters. I wasn’t idle during his
teachings, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">I had finalized the foot
bellows I was making out of deer hide just before supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew the meteorites could handle any heat I
could create. My preference would have been coal but would have to settle for
charcoal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked at the timber in our
hanging valley; all softwoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not great
for making charcoal but it would have to suffice. I knew I needed to make
another set of bellows – a set for a helper to blow enough oxygen into the
firebox in order to forge weld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For just
bending and shaping, the single foot bellows I had constructed would work just
fine. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">It took three tries before the forge I built out of the
meteorites became one hundred percent serviceable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being without an anvil was my greatest
handicap. I was able to use a flat topped meteorite to shape knife blades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made charcoal out of fallen limbs of
ponderosa pine for fuel since we had no access to coal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hoped to remedy that in weeks to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to finish two sets of blades, the
component parts, and the handles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
spent each evening filing, grinding, and assembling the locking folders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the knife and the sheath were an
integral system, I made one sheath as a pattern — Brian made two more which
were professional quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Mai Li
made one which was a work of art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Teamwork had created over three dozen articles for sale in Piños
Altos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was scheduled to make the trip
in the following morning.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Brian was leaving on a mission for the ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would ride part way with me and then we</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’d split at Digger’s
grave and he would ride on to the reservation to do some horse-trading. I’d
issued him thirty dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I
would give him a dollar bonus for every young mare equal to or better than the
grulla he was riding.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Li to use. I expected the young mare would be perfect for my bride-to-be once
it had been ridden to the reservation at Reserve and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dao was already riding the buckskin mare I’d
purchased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hin Lo rode the pack mare I’d
inherited from Digger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The filly had
been weaned when we moved the camp to our new headquarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only took three days to accomplish the
separation.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;">Mai Li and I had staked two more claims which I intended to file
on this trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After putting in my two
days as a smitty, I was planning to travel to Silver City to file the homestead
papers which would take me away from the ranch for almost a week. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The move to our new
headquarters went quickly and smoothly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mai Li and I took one of the top rooms in the Anazasi ruins and had
settled in as husband and wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
deferred to her status as my life partner.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Brian had
been instructed to do what was necessary to make up with his father, the
reverend and encourage him to make the journey to our ranch sometime before our
hay harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted to be legally
married.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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It’s sad that I was such a coward to let the killer in Oregon scare me but he threatened my family and I really had no choice because my pockets were not deep enough to fight the state of Oregon. Looking back, it’s probably for the best. I would have been even more proactive and be rotting in some prison for crimes against the government.<br />
Now, I’ve reached an age (75) where most government offices would consider me impotent regarding REARM AMERICA. Plus, the attitude has changed among the grass roots citizens. <br />
I’m considering returning to the USA to do some book tours. I wonder how I’ll be received. Am I just inserting myself into a war zone?<br />
Rob Hatting<br />
Comments are welcome. <br />
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-89196975610004503252017-08-18T23:23:00.002-07:002017-08-18T23:23:49.839-07:00Tumultuous times breed fear and revolutionary thoughts. <b><span style="font-size: large;">I’m going to post and sometimes lecture on methods to survive the coming events that may require major lifestyle adjustments. <br />
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Natural disasters, a civil war, WW3 or Economic collapse — All precipitate economic adjustment. No one will be immune or exempt if the world economy takes a turn for the worse. I’m not an economist — just an old guy who has paid attention and learned to spot warning signs. If you concur, keep reading. Maybe an idea will help you in the future. If you consider survival and prepping as a fools fear, stop reading. Go back to your hi-rise condo and chill…<br />
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I’ll not bore you with my history but occasionally I need to tell you an experience or two. I’ve been a half-assed prepper since I worked on Henline look-out in the Oregon Cascades just after high school. I’m not an authority but I damned sure know what I’m talking about.<br />
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THE FIRST LESSON — LESS IS MORE.<br />
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Program your lifestyle for long term survival. Look to your ultimate destination for survival. If anything gets in your way — get rid of it. <br />
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SURVIVE BY STEALTH! <br />
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Scale back your aspirations — you can’t save everybody. Realize it’s only you, your family and close friends that are important. Make them part of your team. Program your mind to be realistic — Survivalists are targets of opportunity. Don’t let society know your thoughts or goals. <br />
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FREEDOM IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY — not others. If you have debt or a significant other who is not on board with your plans, it’s time to unload. Do not wait — obtain your freedom or nothing you plan will come to fruition.<br />
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In reality, your needs are simple. Don’t complicate your life with swag.<br />
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Deep inside this blog are articles about numerous off-grid subjects. Poke your nose into my history. Most articles were written when I lived in Panama. Now, I’m in the Philippines. See a common thread? It’s called tropical climate. A growing season = 365 days. More than enough water — no need for winter heat. Tropical fruits and vegetables are abundant. I can go on and on about prepping in the tropics. However, most of what I post are ideas that anyone can do — anywhere. <br />
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*************</span><span style="font-size: large;">This week's featured novel -- Crystal Cowboy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Purchase direct for $4.99. Or buy from Amazon for $9.99.</span> <br />
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$3.99 if you are a member of this blog. <br />
Contact me direct: <a href="mailto:bobhatting@gmail.com">bobhatting@gmail.com</a></b><br />Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-53730582308544687422017-08-17T16:15:00.000-07:002017-08-17T16:15:08.538-07:00New procedures for buying my books<br />
Thank you for investigating my new form of selling my novels.<br />
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Go to my Amazon link -- the one on the far right of this page. Click and scroll through the titles. Choose one to preview. Please read the preview. If it appeals to you, you have a choice to make. If not, try another. NOTE that all titles are 9.99 and that my titles are not part of any Amazon give-away program. My novels are no longer free -- from anywhere. Not Amazon, not Bookbub, not Smashwords, Diesel, or some Russian hacker. <br />
So, now you have to decide. <br />
1. click and purchase the book from Amazon -- or<br />
2. contact me and buy it for 50% less. 60% less if you are a member of my blog.<br />
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If you choose the second option, contact me via e-mail <a href="mailto:bobhatting@gmail.com">bobhatting@gmail.com</a> and tell me the title. I'll give you a price. You send me the money via PayPal and I'll send you a zip file with the novel in these formats: PDF, MOBI, and Epub. You can then upload whichever format you choose to your reading device. <br />
Sound fair? Happy reading.<br />
RWH<br />
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For those of you in the Philippines, I accept cash via Palawan. Contact me for my mobile number.<br />
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I’m considering ads on my blog to earn extra income. What’s your opinion?Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-89612121577792722382017-08-16T14:36:00.000-07:002017-08-16T14:36:19.029-07:00DEEP DISCOUNTS ON ALL NOVELS BY ROBERT HATTING<br />
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DEEP DISCOUNTS ON ALL TITLES by Robert Hatting from Blair Pacific Publishing.<br />
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Commencing today, 8/16/17, most titles will be discounted by at least 50% over the retail prices listed on Amazon.com. To find out more, click here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y6vqjyk8">http://tinyurl.com/y6vqjyk8</a><br />
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Preview of COIN OF THE REALM. Just a small taste.<br />
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silhouette of land drift back over the horizon; out of sight. He looked at his
wife, Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was asleep; stretched
on the thwart of their life raft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
opted not to disturb her with the good news. They were close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One more day and they would be on solid
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sixteen weeks they had been
adrift; living by their wits and suffering from the elements; hiding in an
often unfriendly ocean, unable to call for help, they persevered, hoping and
praying that eventually they would hit land. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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thigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was painful to touch but he
had to get the poison out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost four
months he'd dealt with the annoyance and pain. The wound had improved immensely
since the submarine rammed them and the splinter from the wooden bulwarks had
pierced his thigh, but it was still a threat to his well being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The memory of that event brought forth a
flush of anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hart immediately purged
his vindictive thoughts and focused on their good fortune and the pain he was
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wound, squeezing out the poisonous puss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pain was almost unbearable but being dead or losing the leg from
gangrene poisoning was a strong motivation to hold his pain in contempt. His
teary eyes glimpsed again the landfall in the distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew -- down deep it was a land of
substance; there were mountains on the horizon, not just a coral atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it was an island, he need to keep the
bearings as the current of the Pacific had control of their life-raft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reached for his sat phone; it was next to
his wife, Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He disconnected the
solar charging device and turned on the unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He looked back at the horizon as his satellite phone cycled to
standby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as he switched to the GPS
application, he thought better of the idea. He didn't want to give away their
position. Coreen came wide awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
pointed over his shoulder -- in the direction of the landfall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"That's land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought I was dreaming!" she screeched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"God, Jimmy, we're going to live!"
Coreen said as she began sobbing joyfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hart smiled and held out his hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coreen gently came to her husband's lap and embraced him as she watched
him minister to his swollen thigh.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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look her in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"We may have
to be on the run the rest of our lives, darlin'. But it will be easier once we
get to land."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Jerry Harding asked gently. "I know you know."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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bleeding wound and fingered the entry hole. "When are your medics
arriving? This wound needs attention!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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tourniquet on the man's thigh. He allowed blood to flow for a moment and then
re-tightened the Commander's belt. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"It was a through and through and you are
in no immediate danger, Leon. Please answer my question while we have
privacy," Harding urged.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the distinctive sounds of an approaching helicopter. He grimaced and then spoke
"It came from the top... the highest level according to my boss, Admiral
Fox."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"They'll take good care of you, Commander.
Thank you for your cooperation. My men will notify the Embassy in
Clayton," Jerry said as he focused on his phone connection.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harding moved away from the injured man so he
could speak freely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He swiveled his head
around the vicinity of Jimmy Hart's ranch, making sure no one could hear his
discussion with his best friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waited
several moments as the multiple encryptions took place, and the connection was
made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The orange grove located above
him, sparkled in the morning sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
same early morning sun reflected off the roofs of the buildings and the rotors
of the helicopter as it landed behind the house that served as Jimmy's coin mint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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suspected, Jimmy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shiffler says it came
from the top through his boss Admiral Fox, Chairman of the joint chiefs. That
means either the CIA or the President."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harding glanced back at the landing helicopter.
He could see two of his people, one a trained medic plus his replacement for
Segundo, Salty Saltine who was off on a vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waved as he listened to Jimmy's reaction
from half a world away.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"It amazes me how stupid that man in power
can be at times. Sending an embassy attaché to do a covert operation shows how
much of an idiot he is," Hart proclaimed. "Amateur hour -- just like
Nixon's Watergate. Tell me again why he led his men to my ranch and tried to
breach my security."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harding watched the medic begin attending to
the inept burglar. Harding had known the Commander in better times; when Hart
ruled and the world wasn't upside down. Now all their actions were subject to
extreme scrutiny. They had made everyone's watch list. A lot of the Hart empire
had eroded due Jimmy's war of words with the leader of the free world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Shiffler was supposed to steal some of
the coins being minted, photograph them and send the photos to Langly...
without going through channels," Jerry related. "I can't figure out
why. All one has to do is convert a couple of hundred US dollars to a
Panamanian Golden Balboa and they have what is being minted."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart listened intently to his friend and
associate, Jerry Harding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen sat
beside him on the veranda of their rented cabin. She could hear both sides of
the conversation because Jimmy had the sat-phone volume on high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was almost midnight, a half a world
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy visualized the events that
had taken place at their high mountain ranch in Panama; a contrast to their
seaside location in the back country of Negros Oriental, Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Keep me informed, Jerry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for the call."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen rose to leave the veranda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy reached out and pulled her on to his lap.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Was anyone hurt other than the
commander?" Coreen asked as Hart canceled the connection.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy nuzzled her neck and delayed the answer.
He wanted to purge his thoughts of the incident and his natural reaction to
their situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen returned his embrace
and then suddenly stiffened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"You
cannot have your way with me until you answer my question, Mister Hart,"
She demanded in a whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy squirmed and then held her away; at arms
length.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"None of our people were
even scratched, but Chicho Guerrero, the captain of our security detail was
arrested."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Couldn't Jerry keep that from
happening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assume Chicho was the one
who wounded the Commander."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Actually, the commander took a bullet
from one of the booby traps I designed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No one shot him but Chicho was selected because he was in charge,"
Jimmy explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"That wouldn't have happened if we were
there," Coreen said gruffly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy chuckled as he motioned her off his
lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"No, it would be one of us;
maybe both of us who would be placed in custody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry was lucky he had just driven in when it
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had he been in the stone house
as planned, they would have arrested him instead of Chicho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The political climate has really changed
since we were rammed and presumed lost at sea."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen knew her husband was wrestling with
their changed lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer did they
occupy the political status or friendly governmental posture which prevailed
under the previous administration. In fact, just the opposite had occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new Panamanian president was a handpicked
candidate of the US President, and had received copious amounts of campaign
dollars plus an entire team of election experts bent on dethroning Martinelli
and his political party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The staff of
experts were supplied and funded by the sitting president of the United States,
Barnaby Suerto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The interference had
been successful and now the Panamanian president was on a witch hunt; undoing
everything and prosecuting everyone who was associated or sympathetic to the
previous administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Embassy
lock-down had been lifted, the USA/Panama treaties were reinstated and Hart's
businesses and circle of friends were on the defensive. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerry Harding's intelligence company had been
replaced by the CIA within weeks of the Panamanian election. Although he had
lost a sizable contract, the operatives were still in place and his team was
privy to most all of the happenings in Central and South America. His company
had the advantage when the double for Hugo Chavez was murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harding and his group had the inside track on
the Venezuela upheaval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the
diplomatic ties had all but been severed, the US State Department was willing
to contract on an unofficial basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Harding deferred his decision until he spoke with Hart. Although it was
a sweet cash infusion, and perhaps a foot in the door for the next
administration, Jerry knew his good friend could advise without prejudice. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart was considering Jerry's dilemma and the
attempted breach of their private mint by Leon Shiffler as he and Coreen
enjoyed the solitude and peace of their current environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife knew him well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrestling with their current status was
omnipresent in his mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like an aging
boxer, Jimmy knew he had to sustain for a few more rounds; to bob and weave
until his opponent, the pissed off president of the United States, became
either bored or too distracted to devote resources and manpower to revenge a
personal insult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The egomaniac needed to
return to running the country; the voters demanded it -- congress demanded it
-- but it wasn't happening; Barnaby Suerto demanded vengeance. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy and Coreen were not fugitives from
justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had committed no crime,
but were persecuted by an inept administration with an unlimited budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a vendetta, nothing more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hart faced the inner knowledge every
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a patriot who loved his
country; had fought for it many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He just didn't like the current administration or policies for which
they embraced. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As for Panama, he was disappointed in their new
government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also lacked leadership.
Those in power were more interested in retribution than in governing. He was
frustrated at some of their sophomoric decisions and hoped the light mentality
of the crowd in the tower wouldn't damage the country beyond repair. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen left the veranda and pulled his hand,
signaling she was ready to resume their loving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jimmy purged his maudlin thoughts and followed her into the bedroom of
their rented bungalow. Making love to his wife was the only time he could turn
off his thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She consumed him as
they became one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen fell asleep in
his arms as night turned to early morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jimmy was more than willing to sleep but knew he wasn't ready; mentally
he had a letter to compose.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart entered his closet office and turned on
the light. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He'd just showered and was
ready for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen was still
asleep so he chose to sequester himself in his small cubical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His immediate task was to fire an employee
who had violated his trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
dismissal was distasteful but necessary. Being discharged by Jimmy Hart was
more than losing a job or position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a sentence to a life of fear from retribution. Hart took trust
seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the linchpin for
success in any endeavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When dealing
with a matter as serious as changing the world's perception of currency, it was
paramount.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hans Gruber was the only man
who knew Hart's plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Coreen had
not been fully informed of his thoughts. Obviously Hans had leaked it to
someone in the US government; probably the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy wrote his instructions to Jerry Harding,
the man who would terminate Gruber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although Jerry had no knowledge of what was happening or the reason for
dismissal, Jimmy knew the task would be handled immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry was loyal and would do what was
necessary to remove the man from Jimmy's organization.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart punched the button that sent the letter
through a myriad of servers -- all encrypted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was certain there were some people in the military that were aware he
and Coreen were alive, but they hadn't sold him out as yet. The perception of
their death was keeping them alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gruber would receive the ultimate threat if he opted to shoot off his
mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hart was hopeful the man would
keep his senses and keep their secret.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerry Harding and his wife, Kathy, had been
about to close their office for the day when he'd received the letter from
Hart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He raised his hand to get Kathy's
attention. "Want to fly up to the ranch and spend the week-end?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathy looked up from her laptop, glanced around
their vacant office and grinned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Only if we can stay in the stone house," she replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I always feel so golden -- sleeping
there."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harding laughed at her joke and then began
composing a short response to Jimmy's request.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kathy's remark was a reminder of the enormous amount of gold hidden in
the stone house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harding and Lowell
Downs, while attempting to perform an inventory for Jimmy, had discovered even
more gold in two subterranean levels under the dwelling. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart read the letter a second time before he
spoke with his wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Hans Gruber
has gone missing and Harding suspects he has gone over to the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fear we are in jeopardy," Jimmy
announced.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen digested her husband's latest
warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seldom pushed the alarm
button with her unless he was seriously afraid for their well being. "Why
are we in more danger than before?" she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Gruber will confirm that we are alive and
living here in the Philippines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, he
has knowledge of my plan to adjust the world currencies," Jimmy suggested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"You need to know where I was headed
with my plan. It will become clear why we are going to be hunted even
harder."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Oh, Jimmy, what have you done?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart shifted in his chair and looked his wife
in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I really haven't done
anything wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was researching a
theory and enlisted the aid of a trusted and talented employee. Hans ran a few
tests, we made a few dummy coins and then after I rethought the ramification of
my idea, I instructed Hans to render them back down to the base metals,"
Jimmy explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The prick kept one of the coins, didn't
he?" Coreen stated as a question.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart had not heard language or the tone from
his wife before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It set him back a bit,
so he chuckled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I suspect the prick kept them all,"
Jimmy said in jest of her language.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart pulled coins out of his pocket and dropped
a small triangular bitycoin into his wife's hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen turned it over a few times and then
inspected the golden side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The inscription
said only one word -- <u>realm</u> -- in small lower case cursive.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Why is the coin layered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's so small!" Coreen exclaimed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The front of the coin is 80 percent
gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nickel comprises the rest of the
coin. It's designed to be melted if a person chooses," Jimmy explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"And the size is to keep the value
lower?" Coreen guessed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Very perceptive, my dear. It also lowers
the cost of production."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen looked up from the coin and looked Jimmy
in the eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Why didn't you tell me
of your experiment?" she asked without malice. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart paused before he answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I wanted it far enough along that the
answers would already be evident before I spoke of my thinking, then I canceled
the entire idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sorry now I didn't
put you in the loop," Jimmy replied. "Please accept my apologies."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen was surprised at the formalness of his apology;
his tone was out of character. She knew her husband and suspected there was
more to his ideas and experiments than he was willing to divulge; a deeper
motive for his actions. She wondered why he was not being one hundred percent.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"What's happening, Jimmy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why haven't you told me everything,"
Coreen pleaded.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart paused and looked at his spouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was reluctant to delve into what brought
them into danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A flaw in his
character had once again immersed them into a pit of vipers. She deserved to know.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"After we were rammed by the submarine and
were adrift for weeks without being able to call for help, I became angry at my
countrymen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to spank them for
electing that horrible man; not once but twice. I devised a plan for
revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we hit landfall, I
contacted Hans Gruber and set my revenge plan into action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroying the currency of the USA was my
plan -- it would be immediate and it would happen on this President's watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His only legacy would be his failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A failure brought forth by a war of words
like children on a playground."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen remained silent while her husband
confessed his motives behind their current plight. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Once I took my rage out of the equation,
I evaluated my strategy and could see that what I had planned would weaken the
world economy and transfer a lot of power to nations that were not
democratic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I aborted the idea and
instructed Gruber to destroy the molds and the coins -- all but the one I just
showed you," Jimmy explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion Antique was concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His master had volunteered him for a
mysterious mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was given only a
rifle, ammunition and the address of the targets; a couple of foreigners living
near his home province. The motive or reasons for his future actions were
withheld for 'security reasons'. The master was all powerful; a man without
patience or manners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, according
to Marion's secret bedmate, Julia, the master was very condescending and polite
to the tall black foreigner who had visited them and paid the master for the
assignment. She had served the American a local beer and small glass of their
native rum; both forbidden by the master for anyone else in his congregation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion sat on the ferry bench and recalled his
last instructions from the master. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Shoot true and don't get caught. Your
life will be over if you fail."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion squirmed on the hard wooden bench and
looked down at his old suitcase on the deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ensconced within his clothing and shoes, was a British Enfield .303
caliber rifle broken down into three parts. The WWII jungle carbine had been
issued to him prior to his assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had been given a charger clip with five rounds of ammunition with
which to practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The master's estate
encompassed many hectares of jungle and farmland; ample room to test his
weapon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He'd only fired three rounds to
determine the accuracy of the British weapon. He was issued another ten rounds;
two full charger clips with which to perform his assignment. Marion carried two
extra rounds from his practice allotment in the pocket of his baggy shorts. In
his other pocket was a wad of pesos to cover his expenses and a photo -- a
wedding photo of his targets. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hans
Gruber was bound and blindfolded as he was led into the jungle by the man he'd
trusted; the one who had offered to protect him and deliver the four million
dollars for betraying Jimmy Hart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunter
Quistguard was a contractor for the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He'd extracted the information he'd been commissioned to obtain and then
was left to his own designs to dispose of the turncoat. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harriman
Henderson, the director of the CIA, personally watched the film of the Gruber
debriefing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What he learned was
immediately forwarded to the President and his staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plan Hart was creating would destroy the
world economy for decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The President
issued the orders; Hart had to be stopped and Gruber needed to be silenced;
permanently silenced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henderson gave the
order to dispose of the German.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quistguard had a profitable idea after he'd
received his orders. Panama was a violent country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially the province of Darien.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The impassable jungle that shared a border
with Colombia was the home of the FARC; the notorious Colombian rebels that
dealt in all manners of contraband to finance their lost cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drug smuggling was their primary income but
human trafficking ranked high on their illicit actions list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quistguard made contact with a FARC operative
through his network and he was now making the delivery. Hunter assumed someone
in Germany would pay dearly to ransom the kidnapped Gruber; a metallurgist and
currency expert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quistguard expected to
share in the bounty by trading Hans for a couple of kilos of cocaine. If no one
paid the ransom, Gruber would be executed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The task which Hunter had already been paid to perform.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harriman Henderson had received a face to face
verbal order from the President to eliminate Jimmy Hart and his wife Coreen.
There were no doubts that James Hart had become an enemy of the state; not for
his impudent statements but for his subversive plan to destroy the US
economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The director immediately
called his executive officer, Bernie Sanderson, and transferred the
responsibility to him. "I'm sending you an encrypted video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the data you need is on the tape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do the deed on the Harts," Henderson ordered.
"Keep us four levels out -- no spash-back, Bernie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone thinks this guy is a hero." <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Salty Saltine, the new XO of Harding's
intelligence company, had just landed at their home base at Albrook,
Panama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He, his wife, Inez and their dog
Shag had been on vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
since they'd been married two years prior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Saltine taxied the Gulfstream to their designated hanger and was soon
greeted by Kathy Harding and several staff members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once ushered into the hangar complex that
housed all their offices, Inez immediately went to her desk and booted up her
three computers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm like a wino
that hasn't had a drink in weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm
really addicted to my computers," she announced to Kathy and the
staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Salty had to live with a
woman with withdrawal symptoms," she giggled.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"There are no computers in New Zealand or
Australia?" Kathy asked kiddingly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez giggled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"It was an agreement before we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salty had to refrain from calling Jerry or
discussing business and I promised not to open or use a computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a marvelous time!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathy chuckled and then walked away as Inez
began looking at the screens of her systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her attention was fragmented until she saw an encrypted video that had
been flagged and automatically downloaded from one of her embedded spy systems
-- a high echelon plant.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez concentrated on unscrambling the
encryption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took her three attempts
before she saw the face of the man being questioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had no recognition and was about place
into the archives until she heard the audio come on... the name Jimmy Hart was
mentioned several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inez replayed
the segment several times as she was cleaning up the recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reviewed the source of the recording and
immediately picked up the office intercom. "Jerry, you need to come see
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone just ratted out the Harts
for a huge sum of money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The recording
came from high up in the CIA -- the directors assistant."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Harding, his wife, and Salty stood behind Inez
as the video played for the second time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jerry pointed at the older man sitting comfortably in a wicker
chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"That's Hans Gruber, the
missing metallurgist from Jimmy's ranch compound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect he's talking to the CIA.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"How old is this video?" Kathy asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez brought up the e-mail with the attachment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The video was emailed to a Clifford
Manchester two days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea
when it was recorded," Inez answered as she displayed a file on Clifford
Manchester. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Dupe all that stuff to me, Inez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm going back to my office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to warn Jimmy and Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know Manchester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rang the bell at the SEAL training when I
attended and mustered out of the military soon after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's been a mercenary and middleman for the
last twenty years," Harding advised as he jogged across the office. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez sent the files to Harding's computer and
then turned to Kathy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"What does
ring the bell signify? She asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"He flunked!" Salty and Kathy replied
in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez turned to see the duet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salty was walking away; Shag on his heels.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Where are you going?" Inez asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Salty kept walking toward the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Shag and I are going to ready our
plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sure we are going to leave
soon to fetch the Harts," Salty said over his shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion climbed the seawall and cautiously
peered over the moss covered concrete to observe his targets. They usually took
their evening meal on the veranda of the beach front cabin. Three days of
observing had formed a plan in his mind; kill them while they ate. He was
unarmed during his previous observations but this evening he brought his
weapon. The lights were on in the cabin and on the veranda but neither target
were evident. Antique brought the Enfield to the top of the wall and looked in
all directions but he didn't look down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jimmy grabbed Marion by the throat and heaved him onto the lawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen put her pistol to his head and cocked
the hammer. "Twitch and you are dead!" she shouted at the little man
lying on his stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy pulled the clip out of the intruder's
Enfield and ejected the .303 round from the chamber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"This weapon is older than I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must be an itty bitty bounty on us to send a
discount shooter like this dope," Hart suggested. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion shifted his position to see his
targets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His slight action was met with
extreme pain as Coreen slashed him across the face with her Sig Sauer pistol.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Easy girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need him alive to tell us who sent
him," Jimmy advised.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"He's alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just won't be as pretty," Coreen
stated as she rolled the shooter on to his back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"C'mone let's get this over with so I
can hurt him some more," she said slowly. "I absolutely hate people
who try to kill us!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart knew most of his wife's bluster was
posturing to help with their intel extraction from their captive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, her strong statement was not directed
toward the inept shooter, but the people in high office who had sent him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy placed Marion in a strangle hold and then
brought the assassin to his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
marched him toward the cabin as Coreen collected the weapon and followed.
"Sweetie, fetch that roll of duct tape in my tool kit," Jimmy
requested as he positioned the shooter over a deck chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Tell me your name and you can sit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Play games and you will be down in the
gravel," Hart instructed as he pointed toward the gravel driveway.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen leaned the shooter's rifle on the
door-jam and entered the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion
nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"My name is Marion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am from Cebu City," he lied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy turned the small man loose and motioned
to the chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion took a step,
reached into his pocket, and dove toward the rifle. The breech of the weapon
was open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He jammed the live round into
the chamber and closed the bolt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instantly, Jimmy was on the shooter and began wrestling him to the
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Enfield fired just as Coreen
stepped through the door. She fell back as the bullet smacked her left
bicep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy chopped and pressure
pointed the assailant to put him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
jumped over the Filipino man and grabbed Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was holding her arm and inspecting the
wound. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm okay," she
stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It's just a graze."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Let's get you attended to," Jimmy
said as he helped her to her feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen looked at the unconscious shooter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Is he dead?" she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Nope, not yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can do the honors later," Jimmy
stated as he put pressure on her wound to slow the bleeding.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen pointed to the duct tape on the
patio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Get that guy under control
before we do anything else," Coreen instructed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'll be okay."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart was not gentle as he trussed the
unconscious man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He deliberately wrapped
each binding tight enough to stop blood from circulating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as he turned to attend to Coreen, the
small man let out a blood curdling scream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coreen strode to the prone man and looked at the shooter trying to
squirm out of his bindings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I guess he doesn't like the binding
around his eyes," Coreen surmised.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy chuckled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"The duct tape is wound tightly over his eyelids -- sticky side
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each time he blinks he experiences
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a long way from his
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let him suffer while we clean and
dress your wound."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The shooter screamed again and was rewarded by
a kick to the side of the head by Hart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"That can wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want this man to talk to us," Coreen
said as she kicked the prone man in the ribs and then leaned toward his
head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Who sent you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who paid you to kill us?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart began emptying the pockets of their
captive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He extracted the pesos, another
live .303 round, and the photo of them taken at their wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy showed all the items to Coreen and then
walked into the cabin to fetch their medical kit.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen was staring at the photo of them at
their wedding as Jimmy approached with their first aid kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She held it up to her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"How did they get this?" Coreen
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy was about to answer when he heard a
vehicle approach their gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He signaled
Coreen to stay behind the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
reached down and placed a wide strip of duct tape over Marion's mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy approached the front gate of the fence
that surrounded their cottage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man on
an idling motorcycle was just outside the fence watching Jimmy approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The motorcycle headlight was directed toward
the bungalow, offering a sign of courtesy by not shining the light into Hart's
face. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Your neighbor reported hearing a gunshot
and then some screaming," the man said as Jimmy approached the gate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"And who are you?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I'm Hector Jencoy, the head of
neighborhood watch," the polite Filipino replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Has there been a disturbance?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart was tempted to build a plausible lie to
get rid of the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he thought
better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth had always been his best
weapon. "We have a slight problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps you can be of assistance," Jimmy stated as he opened the
lock on the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring your machine
into the complex," he instructed as he opened the gate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Do I need to call the police?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Come see what happened and then you can
decide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I think we have it
handled," Hart replied.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen met them halfway as they walked toward
the rear of the cabin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"This is
Hector Jencoy, the jefe of the local neighborhood watch," Jimmy
explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Hector, I need you to
be patient while I attend to my wife's wound," Hart requested.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The trio rounded the corner of the cabin and
into the light from the porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy
watched his guest as he glanced at Marion, squirming on the lawn and then
surveyed the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy ministered to his wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They remained silent as he cleaned the wound.
Coreen winced several times but also watched their guest.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Did this man attack you?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy winked at Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Actually, we attacked him as he
attempted to bushwhack us," Hart replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"He has been watching us for several days. Tonight he attempted his
mission but we were ready for him."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jincoy walked to Marion and leaned over the
trussed man in order to observe him more closely. "I don't recognize
him," Hector stated. "He looks in pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is he wounded?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"He's in pain because I taped his eyelids
open," Hart explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"We
were about to interrogate him. We want to know who sent him to assassinate
us."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jincoy walked to toward the table so he could
see Coreen's wound. Jimmy was cleansing it with a solution made from hydrogen
peroxide and ozonated water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
liberally saturated gauze bandages with the solution and then began wrapping
her bicep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The bullet from that
old rifle was a graze," Coreen explained as she pointed to the Enfield
lying on the terrace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It was a
full metal jacket -- military issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm
lucky it didn't hit a bone," Coreen explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"What do you want me to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Call the police?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy was anxious to interrogate Marion but the
presence of Hector deterred his plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"If you can trust us to deal with this matter, I would appreciate
not contacting the police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not
anxious to deal with their paperwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm sure the headlines that will come from an arrest of a contract
killer will embarrass your country," Jimmy advised.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"How do you know this man is a contract
assassin?" Hector asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen handed the neighborhood watchman the
contents of Marion's pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Look
at the photo, mister Jincoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was on
our wedding day five years ago," Coreen explained. "That was in his
pocket."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hector looked at the photo and then at the old
rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turned and faced Jimmy and
Coreen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Maybe I can help you interrogate this
man," Jincoy offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I speak
his language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I will take him to
the police and charge him with attempted robbery."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jerry Harding listened to Jimmy's recount of
the incident with the inept assassin. He could visualize the look on the guy's
face while being tossed through the air and then being hammered by a slight
young woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stifled a chuckle as
Hart went on to describe the weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Is she okay?" Jerry asked as Jimmy
mentioned his scuffle and Coreen's wound.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We're five by five, Jerry."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Okay, Jimmy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm glad you have it under control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This won't be the last, I'm afraid. Gruber
sold you out to the CIA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a video
that was sent from the company's number two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm sure by now there is a full court press to eliminate you,"
Jerry surmised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"We have a tape of
the debriefing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hans painted you as
truly un-American, so expect the worst."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart digested the information just handed him.
If the number two man with the CIA was involved, the decisions were coming from
the top; the president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barnaby Suetero
finally had just cause to make him an enemy of the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were doomed unless he could somehow get
a fair hearing as to what really happened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jimmy looked across the lawn to his love,
Coreen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was in just as much jeopardy
as him unless he could get her insulated from the onslaught he knew was coming.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Any idea where we can find Gruber?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we can convince that prick to set
this straight in an international forum," Hart speculated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I've got my entire network working on
finding that pond scum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he's alive,
we will eventually locate the turncoat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By the way, I sent you the video so you can see what Gruber told
them," Jerry added.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I'm sure he didn't tell whomever that I'd
scotched the idea and had ordered him to melt down the coins and destroy the
molds."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart heard Jerry chuckle as his response.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy watched his wife walking toward him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was still in her anger state of
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn't blame her -- she'd been
shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I need to relocate," Jimmy
stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Any ideas where Coreen
will be safe?" Hart asked his friend.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We have a plan in motion to get you both
safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salty and Inez are en route to
fetch you," Harding reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"In twenty-four hours you will have dropped off the face of the
earth."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Coreen came to Jimmy and circled his waist with
her right arm, being very careful not to damage her wounded left wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I'm glad they are coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have some unfinished business on the island
of Mindanao -- on the outskirts of Butuan, specifically," Hart advised.
"Our shooter gave up his boss -- some kind of cult leader from Pakistan;
he's a gringo. Have Salty pick us up in Butuan."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"What are you doing, Jimmy? This is no
time for revenge," Harding advised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Let me handle those people. Our old friend, Clifford Manchester
was the contractor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to assume
he's tied to the company."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart considered the advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coreen, standing beside him decided to chime
in. "Jerry, we're here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a
helper who is capable and willing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
is the time," she stated in a stern manner.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I'm not seeing the entire picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell me about your opportunity," Harding
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart laughed into the satphone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"You know us too well, Jerry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cult guy doesn't know the shooter
failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our helper, the neighborhood
watch guy, is the editor of a nationwide news blog. He's gonna report our
demise. Kinda like the sleight of hand we did in Panama City."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Okay... so you're dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then what?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"We storm his compound and then I'm going
to shoot that SOB with the relic of a rifle he issued to take us out,"
Coreen stated.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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strategy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me know when you want
Salty in Butuan."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We're leaving in an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We'll be taking ferries, so we need a couple
of days to get in position," Jimmy speculated. "If they get there
early, tell them to check in and enjoy the Inland Resort."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Saltines are arriving the Philippines
long before you get to Mindanao. Take them with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are both good warriors and are itching
to help," Jerry advised. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hans Gruber had never considered suicide until
he'd been kidnapped and handed to a pack of dogs representing themselves as
FARC guerrillas. His current plight was one-hundred-and-eighty degrees from his
intellectually conceived plan; a betrayal that would have made him a world hero
and lined his Swiss bank account with four million Euros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting in the rain on a jungle hilltop, tied
hand and foot to a tree was not part of his plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FARC forces watched him every
minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had no privacy and was abused
often by several of the more violent members of the gang. He was filthy, tired,
hungry, and thirsty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also cut,
bruised and bitten and harassed by insects. His shoes had been stolen and his
feet were bloody from blisters, thorns and sharp rocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His entire body was wracked with a fever and
he was constipated. For six days he had been pushed and shoved through the
steamy jungle by inconsiderate animals disguised as human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, in this hillside camp, he was allowed to
eat with his own hands rather than burnt rice being shoved down his throat by
the leader of the animal pack. He took small joy in the event -- the
opportunity to masticate before swallowing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hans' comfort level was so low and pain was so
high, he focused on his death; to try and die by his own will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn't working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His inner self fought to survive while his
mind tried to mentally shut down. The conflict created deep insanity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Jimmy guided their Jeep onto the ferry in
Dumaguete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scheduled voyage to
Dapitan City on the island of Mindanao was usually four hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar to Panamanians, the Filipinos set
schedules based on their personal needs rather than on their customers. Once
into Dapitan they had another six hour drive to reach their destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hart glanced at the rear seat of the Jeep as
they exited to climb the stairs to the passenger section of the craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hidden beneath the seat were his toolbox and
also the vintage Enfield. A small point of contention until Jimmy relented and
devised a way to bring the weapon along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Coreen had insisted she was going to make her threat good -- To
personally shoot Henry Clayton for accepting and then ordering a contract to
kill as well as issuing the vintage rifle to the inept assassin, Marion
Antique.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I knew this guy who was an old friend of
a cult leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He criticized the cult
man's beliefs and was killed on the spot by one of the 'believers'," Jimmy
related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"This Clayton guy and all
of his followers are probably nuts! We have to be careful."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was there when you debriefed Marion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He refers to Clayton as master -- like he's a slave," Coreen said
as she stood outside the passenger door of the jeep and pointed to the
backseat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Will our stuff be safe?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quistguard fingered the money hidden under his
shirt; his recent drug sale had been more profitable than he'd
anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was pleased with himself
and smiled inwardly as he entered a taxi in downtown Panama City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He intended to deposit the cash into his
secret Panamanian account; one which he'd opened right after his first contract
with the CIA back in the Noriega era. It was his life-after-espionage fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of his escape plan. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Hunter exited the taxi near the Albrook
mall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Marine officer he was
scheduled to meet was waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the
rendezvous, he would visit his bank and make the deposit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quistguard had received three text messages
from the lieutenant; all indicating impatience that seemed out of character for
his embassy contact.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lieutenant Larkin, dressed in civvies, was
waiting outside the mall entrance when the taxi pulled between the bus terminal
and the rear entrance to the mall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunter
mingled with the crowd near another unloading taxi and then meandered across
the street to the mall entrance.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"You're really in the soup!" the
lieutenant spat as Hunter reached the entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Everyone is after your ass; including me!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Shocked by the brazen outburst by his covert
contact, Quistguard beckoned the officer closer. "Why are you not being
discreet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meet me at the restaurant as
planned."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Screw you, Hunter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You buggered a lot of people by not following
instructions with Gruber! They want you at the basement -- stat!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quistguard looked at Larkin's face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It telegraphed a great deal of concern and
anger. The basement was where black operations were initiated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunter knew he wanted no part of what the CIA
had in store for him. "I followed instructions with Gruber,"
Quistguard lied.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"No you didn't.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's being held by the FARC and is being
ransomed to the highest bidder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your ass
is grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were paid and instructed
to dispose of him, not sell him!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quistguard knew he was trapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CIA had probably tapped the phones of the
German consulate and found out on the first call the FARC had made to establish
their demands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mind went into
overdrive as he considered his options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Being escorted to the basement by Larkin was not going to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Okay, I'm caught, I didn't murder
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I disposed of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one will pay a ransom to those FARC
clowns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They'll kill him when they
finally figure that out," Hunter replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I'm not going to the basement, Larkin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can shoot me in the back if you
want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm outta here!"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quistguard turned toward the street and began
walking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within moments he was in a
crowd at the bus terminal. He looked back and watched the marine turn into the
mall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunter knew he was now going to be
hunted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chose an option the company
was sure to despise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez brought her husband a sandwich as they
completed the final leg of their flight to the Philippines. Guam to Manila was
two-thirds complete. The Manila-Butuan flight was just a regional flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salty estimated a shade over an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"I'd like to give you an overview of our
target, sweetie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's a real bad guy
that no one has been able to bring to justice," Inez reported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"He's only been in Mindanao four years
since being deported from Pakistan and has an estimated following of
three-thousand wayward souls. He's a slippery scumbag that preys on the weak
and uneducated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's funded by smuggling
contraband and covert operations like the attempted hit on the Harts."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"He's an Aussie, right?" Salty asked
between bites of his sandwich.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"That's what the CIA file reports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harding's file shows that the guy was born in
the Bahamas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother migrated to New
Zealand before he entered grade school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few years later, from New Zealand to Sydney," Inez explained.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Let me guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each move was with a new husband,
right?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salty chuckled.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez laughed at her husband's insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Our target has six wives; all in the
same compound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After my conversation
with Coreen, I suspect they all call him master."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Salty glanced at the chronometer on his
instrument panel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I expect to be
in Butuan a day before them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you want
to recon the compound or wait for the Harts?"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Inez responded immediately. "This is Jimmy
and Coreen's mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're here to
provide back-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I vote we enjoy the
resort."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Marion Antique was depressed beyond tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was crestfallen. Not because he was
incarcerated in a small cell, but because he hadn't been able to endure the
pain; the pain and his fear that had led him to betray his master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He replayed the questions and his answers
time and time again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was ashamed of
his weaknesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he replayed the
promise and the threat made by the woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was a killer and was set on defiling their sanctuary and killing
their master.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The small six by nine foot cell had no windows
and an oxidized barred door, secured by a pitted rusty chain and cheap
padlock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A single guard squatted against
the wall just outside his jail cell, smoking a cigarette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion needed a toilet but the steel bucket
in his cell was full to the brim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
hollered at the jailer and received a lewd gesture in response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion tossed the bucket at the barred door;
its contents spraying the jailer and himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The horrific odor stifled any chance to breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The jailer jerked the keys from his pocket,
took up a short bamboo club and opened the door to administer a blow to the
putrid convict. Marion retrieved the empty bucket and struck the jailer as he
entered the cell.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Someone had removed the bale from the bucket
but hadn't dogged over the ears. Marion used the two sharp protrusions to gash
the jailer in the face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion repeated
the process until the jailer went to his knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The club brought into the cell was used to bash in the skull of the
custodian. Antique rifled through the dead guards pockets and relieved him of
his few pesos and a pocket knife. He used the keys to open the back door to the
small city holding facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marion knew
he would be caught if he tried to reach Mindanao by public transportation but
he had to try and reach his master and warn him of the Harts and their
mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Henry Clayton was being his usual decadent
self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His third wife was attending to
his carnal needs while one of his servants was feeding him a sandwich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The phone rang during his excursion into
gluttony and he motioned for another female servant to answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His secretary was the only woman in the room
fully clothed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Clayton pushed his sandwich away and took the
call.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few people knew his number so he
presumed it was important. He glanced at the caller id.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No name, just a number, but it was coming
from Hong Kong.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"Congrats, Henry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your man fulfilled the contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just saw the news," Manchester
reported.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Clayton motioned to his wife to continue her
fellatio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I haven't heard from my
disciple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will report to me in two
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I will know the contract has
been honored," Clayton surmised as he hung up the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the briefcase, and looked again at his laptop screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A coded message had just popped on to his
company server.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was being summoned
back to his station on Guam; evidently his report of the Hart elimination had
earned him accolades and perhaps a new posting.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">This post merely outlines the procedures to purchase novels directly from the author. No middleman, no ads for other products — just the novels written by Robert Hatting.<br />
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Scattered throughout this blog is the e-mail address; bobhatting@gmail.com <br />
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Use it to send your name, e-mail address and the title of the book you wish to purchase. Then use pay-pal to send the appropriate amount to that same e-mail address for the price of the book. Once I receive the notice the money has been received, I will attach a zip file with the novel in the following formats: PDF, MOBI, and EPUB. You may then upload the novel to any of your reading devices. <br />
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If you connect to the link to my Amazon page, you will note that all the books for sale are priced at $9.99; the maximum allowed by Amazon. My novels are no longer part of the freebie program with Amazon. Beginning August 16, 2017, most of my work will not be exclusive to Amazon. They will be one of my retailers, but if you want better prices you must purchase directly from me — the author. Expect prices to be about half the Amazon prices and sometimes discounted to almost free. At times I will offer free novels for a limited time. But only through this blog, Blair-Pacific Publishing. <br />
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I have two novels I’m about to publish; COIN OF THE REALM and PEPPER PYLE. These novels will be exclusively sold by me — no one else, for a period of three months. After that, they will be uploaded to Amazon Kindle store and perhaps be printed prior to my upcoming book tour in the USA. </span><br /></b><br />
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-46064232300940900682017-07-20T00:28:00.002-07:002017-07-20T00:28:53.207-07:00CURRENTLY REMODELINGI’m in the remodel stage of making my blog, Blair Pacific Publishing, an integral part of my new BUY DIRECT program. Periodically, I hope once a week, I will feature one of my novels — One needs to be a member of my blog to receive novels for free.<br />
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-8034563799959788592017-03-17T14:00:00.000-07:002017-03-17T14:00:46.802-07:00The Four Day Growing Cycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I watched a YouTube video on FB a month ago that sparked my interest; growing sprouts. I watched the simple process and then adapted it to the Philippines. The results are wonderful because my Pinay, SO, has developed a taste for the bean sprouts and is even using them in lieu of noodles in dishes like Pancit & Bami. <br />
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Lumpia made with fresh sprouts is excellent to superb. Stir fry is no longer the same. I urge you to try the process. Minimum effort — rapid results — big reward.<br />
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-52972583928660644692017-02-15T15:04:00.000-08:002017-02-15T15:04:15.196-08:00HATTING TO RETIRE!
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m embarking on a very radical adjustment to my life – I
beginning the process to retire; not die, but to retire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None were available except on a
3 year waiting list, so I made one myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In doing so I invented a system that continued curing my heart
condition, but also a host of other major maladies as described below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the past several years, I’ve tried in
vain to create a business model to provide the benefits of my medical ozone
system to those in need -- regardless of their financial situation. Ozone
Centers were created by eliminating capital investment -- a very simple plan.
(I provided the Ozone system on a per minute rental basis) – the operator paid
an equivalent of $750 USD and provided the facility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People were trained, clients were cured, but
the business model didn’t work; not even close to what I had planned. The
ozone center operators made money, the clients got their treatments and were
regaining their health, but I didn’t get paid for my systems. One entire system
was stolen. So, I went back to selling the units rather than leasing them by
the minute. Unfortunately sales have been weak. Perhaps that is my fault (I’m
better at creating than marketing). By moving my operation out of Panama and
into the Philippines, I have been able to lower the cost by almost $1000 per
system. I’ve passed those savings on to the customer. However, this price
reduction has not stimulated sales. <br />
Other factors concerning this radical shift I’m announcing are as follows: I
have had lost deliveries of components and machines, units have been damaged by
customs officials, and several individuals have tried to discover the secrets
to my inventions by taking them apart and consequently destroyed their systems.
(And then… AND THEN … having the temerity to demand replacements because their
reverse engineering didn’t work). I financed a unit for a dear friend and
have not been paid but a fraction of the value. The list goes on and
on… <br />
This has to change!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll write off the enormous amount of money (my life savings) I
invested to invent and develop a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>system
that cures just about every major malady; cancer, heart disease, MS, Parkinson,
stroke, diabetes, Hepatitis, STD’s, Dengue, ED, and a host of other minor
conditions. I’ll forget about selling to the Chinese or Germans or any other foreign
entity.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I have several systems in my inventory that will eventually
sell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not going to fret over this
low cycle in my achievements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps
someday I will find someone who captures my respect and I will give
him/her/them my business and inventions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Time will tell. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The background whispers in my mind tell me to continue the
leasing program (ozone centers) here in the Philippines but dial in my significant other to
administer and enforce the lease payments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This whisper is becoming stronger every day. Plus I invented a medical
grade unit that runs off 12 volt – a major advantage (portability) to
veterinary practices and to the sports medicine industry. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the meantime I will continue to write my novels and other
material, travel locally, and then expand travel to other parts of Asia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll still base myself in the Philippines,
but don’t be surprised if I show up on your doorstep one day!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-50623062154654417942016-08-28T13:36:00.000-07:002016-08-28T13:36:39.862-07:00SENILITY VERSUS VIRILITY! Men in their 70’s & 80’s<br />
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<em><strong>This is my tide pump. It uses the forces of tides to pump water seawater</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>to heights in excess of five hundred feet. Installed correctly, it will generate</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>enough electricity (free) to support entire communities. The Philippines</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong> and Panama could use this to supply their entire country with power</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>using only the free energy of the Pacific Ocean.</strong></em></div>
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Many years ago, I was told by an old friend that when a man reaches the age of seventy he is just beginning to bloom — mentally. Unfortunately, most people will not take the man seriously unless he is of some prominence. My friend also told me that when a man reaches eighty he is considered a burden on society. Most regard octogenarians as non-entities. Governments, world-wide do not look at the elderly with compassion or understanding. <br />
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My friend is gone now, he died alone in his nineties. He left behind a legacy of unrewarded creations that are finally coming to light and touted as ‘genius’. Unfortunately, only a few people know his ideas and creations were stolen by the same people who scorned him in his later years — his family!<br />
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I’VE REACHED THAT INSIGNIFICANT AGE!! So here’s what I’m going to do to make sure a few more folks know the truth before I pass on. I’ll post it on my blog and on Facebook. <br />
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<li>My twenty plus novels speak for themselves — same with my screenplays. They are all copyrighted and I own one-hundred percent of the rights. I doubt someone will have the temerity to pose as yours truly to steal my minuscule royalties, but one never knows. </li>
<li>Several thousand people in the world have been cured of serious maladies like cancer, heart disease, strokes, and a host of other ailments — using the special two stage ozone generator I developed. The protocols for therapy with my systems are somewhat unique but in no way are they able to be protected as intellectual properties. </li>
<li>My ozone inventions have been guarded but not patented. (Experience has taught me that attempting to protect my intellectual property — actually presents my ideas to the world and they are maliciously copied by unscrupulous companies in communist nations with whom the western world does business.)I suspect there are some who are reverse engineering my creation in order to determine how the crystal modulator works. I don’t care. My Breathing Apparatus, however is a game changer. I guard the secrets and assemble each one personally. </li>
<li>I recently discovered a way to make my medical grade ozone generator portable by converting the power supply to twelve volt. This opens the door to a host of other users — veterinary science and sports medicine to name just two. The future for this product is beyond my scope of imagination.</li>
<li>Other inventions I’m working on are less technical and have a broader reach. Most are alternative energy related. Brown Out Box, Air extractor, tide pump to name a few. The science is already proven — the prototypes are in the engineering stage and scheduled to be built as funds become available.</li>
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Okay, that’s my contribution… Compared to others, like the technological giants, my creations appear insignificant. After all, I am over seventy.<br />
Just remember, however, there are guys like my friend, Malcolm Henderson who is about to turn eighty-three. He’s running a farm — off the grid in a remote section of Panama. He’s taking organic farming to an entirely different level. He has developed agriculture protocols that can help feed the world. He is NOT insignificant! Nor are others who have chosen to pass over the ‘sit and watch retirement’. My friend Billy Egli has written seventy-five books. At the prime age of seventy-two, he chose to form his own publishing company. I’m confident he will adjust the industry in Europe. He’s not a ‘sit and watch’ kind of man.<br />
So, if you are over seventy, tell me want you are doing — not what you’ve done. </dir>
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Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-50831144744476337152016-05-31T17:47:00.000-07:002016-05-31T17:47:36.533-07:00MAJOR CHANGE -- I'M ABOUT TO RETIRE<br />
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<br />Robert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2839192082672857206.post-6716151089913911632016-05-18T13:27:00.000-07:002016-05-18T13:27:05.516-07:00TIME OUT!<br />
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Dear readers, fellow authors, and friends<br />
Many of you have followed my career as a novelist. You have experienced my creativity through the written word. My writing has taken a back seat to inventing — another application to my creativity. Novels and screenplays are entertainment. My inventions are life changing. I’ve developed the path toward curing major maladies to healthy living and to very green ‘off grid’ energy.<br />
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Just suppose you could wake up every morning — turn on a machine I invented, place a mask over you nose and mouth and breathe deeply for ten minutes. Then repeat the process in the afternoon or evening. If you had one of these units, you could cure cancer, heart conditions, strokes, diabetes, HIV, AIDS, ED, MS, STD’s and a host of minor ailments and conditions. Oh, yeah… it’s also an anti aging system. It’s proven, accepted by many, and touted as the next wave in medicine. NOTE: it’s real and it’s for sale. Contact me for details. <br />
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What if -- you could attach a device to your water faucet or other source of water and generate electricity — 12 volt or 24 volt. This device will charge a battery or series of batteries which if one has an inverter could run your appliances, lights, ozone generator and maybe even charge the batteries of your electric car or scooter. What if this same unit produced compressed air — enough to inflate your tires, or run a pneumatic tool set. What if it cooled your house? Everything mentioned above without burning fossil fuels — quiet and ‘green’— personified. <br />Consider that these units will come in various sizes. <br />The smallest, about the size of a microwave oven, charges cell phones, radios, provides emergency lighting, and may power your refrigerator — just a basic ‘brown-out’ unit. <br />The second size is the size of a refrigerator and will power an entire household; including the charging of your electric scooter batteries — ostensibly keeping your home ‘off the grid’.<br />The third size resembles a railroad boxcar and will serve the electrical needs of an entire neighborhood or large business.<br />
<br />NOTE: The science is proven. It’s real. However, the units are not yet available for sale.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHlfzdcp6WshSlYiGa03bSmL49S8lc1GjJGKuZiy4Zg0CkkVPa74u-G5-zWJjaJakyXDpB2M6NPB50z5viz971WeFs23OnHs3jUQhUFsnX_4D-FPwk7VHRpx5FAEly-4ebYpZcPV0D-k/s1600/IMG-20150514-WA0003.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHlfzdcp6WshSlYiGa03bSmL49S8lc1GjJGKuZiy4Zg0CkkVPa74u-G5-zWJjaJakyXDpB2M6NPB50z5viz971WeFs23OnHs3jUQhUFsnX_4D-FPwk7VHRpx5FAEly-4ebYpZcPV0D-k/s200/IMG-20150514-WA0003.jpeg" width="112" /></a>That’s what I’ve been doing, folks. That’s why no new novels for a couple of years… Contact me for further details.<br />Robert Hatting<br />
bobhatting@gmail.comRobert Hattinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18087810415265261662noreply@blogger.com0