All my vital stats were there. Also there was a list of previouspurchases, color preferences, even clothing styles I liked. She sat mommaand I on a co...uple of chairs with a small table between, "Would either ofyou care for some tea or coffee?" Momma had some tea, and I deferred.Mary went off and I could see her ordering her staff all over the store.It was then that I noticed we were the only ones in the shop. I felt sospecial. One of the attendants brought several boxes with lacy things inthem.. I was happy to be seeing colors again, instead of that blurry picture of badly mixed shades of a moment before. Jeanie was standing in front of me, brows frowned in worry as she looked me up and down. ‘Are you ok?’ She asked. ‘Yes…’ I wheezed. Hey, I’m an artist, I’m allowed to overreact. ‘Here, sit down. I’ll get you a glass of water.’ She hurried me to one of the s**ttered boxes, pushing me down gently before rushing off to the kitchen to fetch a glass of lukewarm water. When I landed. "Ill pay $95.00" came a voice in the back "95, 95, 95, going once, going twice, SOLD, to the man in the back for $95.00 dollars per pound" the auctioneer finished with this lot and the girls were lead away from the stage to the back for processing.In the back room the man who won the bidding and four other men came in to see the girls they had just bought "My name is Jason" the winning bidder addressed himself to Steve the head inspector and butcher "These are my friends, they will each be. Gramma and punctuation where they ought to be, spelling exemplary. And all the while Kit never ever let on or gave the tiniest hint that she knew this was all going on. Toward the end of the term Mr Connors looked a little wild around the eyes. He stood less and less when addressing the class after the papers were handed in. Kit hoped she knew the reason why. His eyes always searching the class in hopes of finding out who was leaving him these notes. He still didn’t have any idea. And each day.