32 automatic and a second clip for it. “Are you happy now daddy” the three said with the same voice. I mumbled something under my breath, started ...the truck and backed it out of its slot so that when I stopped I was facing the garage door. Susan pushed the button on the dash that opened the door and as soon as it was high enough we were off. Once the rear bumper cleared the doorway down the door came at twice the speed it went up. I made a right when I exited the alleyway, went up two blocks and. I thought the Realtor wasn't earning their commission, letting the place show like this. Through the window I could see a desktop Christmas tree, maybe two feet tall, lit up all in white.Strangely, Cathy stopped speaking before we got to the house, and didn't speak again until the end of the block. "Sad," was all she said.We took a round-about path back to my house, and our conversation had returned to the safety of weather concerns, community issues, and such, carefully skirting any discussion. Now, address them in a loud firm voice." Uh, Mom." She looked at me. "Dad." Then he. "Sally." Then my sister."I have something to tell you," I said as I read off the paper."Read," said Mistress forcefully."I feel, as if, I'm really, I mean, I can't do this."Anger sparked in Mistress' eyes."You have one more chance, then I take more drastic measures. I'll have your father in panties and you mother and sister in a torrid lesbian affair. Is that what you want?" No, please, no." Then continue. My. "Razorback," she mused, saying my code name with forced sweetness,"Isn't that just a pig? How appropriate." Isn't nightshade just a weed?" I countered. Then we sat there insilence for more than a minute before I finally asked, "Do you evenknow what it does?"Parish stared at me for a moment, obviously trying to determine justhow much I already knew. Finally, she decided that she wouldn't giveanything away and nodded. "Yes. Professor Trumacher explained it to mewhen I found him." You know where.