We dropped Holly off then pulled around the block to my house. I was rather surprised to see my dad was still gone. Going inside I found a note, sayin...g that he had been called in by work and had gone down to Irvine to repair a Radar on a military base down there. This was going to be an overnight job, so he left $20 for dinner and gave me the number to a pager they had just issued him.I handed the note to Linda, and she gave me a grin as she asked what we could possibly do for the rest of the. On a normal day she would have joined in or given me some help, but not today and I found out why the next day.After Sarah had left I received a message from her telling me to look under the middle couch cushion. At this point I was getting a bit twitchy because of her smirk from last night. Under the cushion I found a usb jump drive, so naturally I grabbed the laptop and plugged it in. the only things on it were a file that said second and a word document that said “read this first”. When I. I rode Red home with my other horse on a lead rope. As I got near home, damned if I didn't meet another road agent. Was he surprised when he pointed his gun at me, and I started laughing. "What's so God damned funny?" he asked.I said, "I was held up at almost this identical place two nights ago. I don't have any money left, an' I thought that was funny."He said, "I'll jus' take yer hosses, then. Git down."This was exactly the opening I needed. He had to back off a little to give me room to. They weren't frequent visitors, but she wasn't too proud to take what she could get when the pickings were slim. Most of the staff knew me, and welcomed Eva with arms that were entirely too open. Everybody in town seemed to be dissatisfied that I was unattached, and they didn't care about the age difference either.We ended up staying four hours. I washed dishes, which Timothy brought me for a while, along with a bevy of other bus people. When he got tired he took his artist set around asking.