They tried to lock off access to my road. I visited the local Menard's for a cutoff saw, a plastic face shield and a little generator. I also bought a... one gallon plastic dispenser full of gasoline. One hour later the concrete-filled steel post that the lock had been fastened to was history. I regarded all these moves as prime bovine fertilizer—bullshit. I obtained copies of the deed and the contract from the law firm, hired a young attorney with an attitude and made a trip to Augusta, the state. It was that unconscious part of the brain, the part that forces us to recall and replay happenings over during our sleep, that wouldn't let go!As if my nights weren't bad enough dreaming of Mary; now I had another face that I kept dreaming about. Even worse, Mary's and that young woman's face, looking back at me from below the water, kept getting mixed up in my unconscious mind. Sometimes I saw Mary's face distorted as it was by the waters surface. Sometimes I dreamed that the woman I'd married. * * * * * * *Baker Street, London August 30th 1888, afternoonIt had been four weeks now, since Charles attempt to recreate the formulathat had made him a man, but he had experienced no success, despite the manylong days and nights he had spent in his basement. He was at the point ofdespair now for although, with great effort, he had managed to control hisever increasing lascivious urges he had weakened a few times, taking hispleasure of his former gender with more frequency. What scared him. Mary nodded and gave the girls twenty dollars each to clean the garden and said if I thought that I was happy with the work then they could do chores for me to but I had to pay them myself. Looking past Mary I caught Becky giving Nicole a wink, I could sense her excitement. Mary bought two boxes of chocolates almonds, then asked me to show the girls to the garden shed while she called her mom and see if she would like to drive into the city which was an hour away to go shopping. She would be.