Life was looking up. I thought all might be well, but on April 3rd of 1891, Mary took the loaded pistol the Custer had given me and went out behind th...e hotel and blew her brains out. I was greatly saddened and knew I would miss her, but felt that now she was at peace. I buried her at the mass grave site so she would be with her son. I even had granite tombstones made and engraved for each of them. Their bones would lie side by side. Father Murphy and I had many talks where he tried to. Even so, Gretchen enjoyed the last year more than the previous one. Octavian, Decennia’s older brother, had been a pest for years. The last year before he went away, he had taken to chasing Gretchen into corners and pawing her.So, Decennia being with her mother, Gretchen was set to work scrubbing the floor of the atrium on her hands and knees. At least, they were at the summer residence. The house in Rome had an atrium four times as large. She was scrubbing busily when the Dominus passed. See you in the morning.” Tony folded the two bills and carefully put them in his pocket with a big smile on his face.Later, Tony and the two girls Willa and Sally found the box, tucked away in the corner of his closet. He opened it and found a tray of gold coins, a tray of silver coins and a bundle of one hundred $100 bills. He turned to Sally, “As long as we can buy food with money, we will never be hungry again. John and Jenny make good parents. Thank you, God.”The three young people made. The alien successfully bares her, ass first, to the dozens of colleagues watching her plight through the glass. Agnes closes her eyes tightly, a feeling of unreality warring with utter, complete mortification inside of her. This has to be a nightmare, she tells herself. She isn’t being held up by an alien, pant-less, for all the people she most admires to see. This can not be happening to her.The creature rips her white tank top in half with a single swoop of a large tentacle. Agnes opens her.