He wanted to see how JK responded and where it led them. Dylan’s heart was beating faster as he walked on JK’s porch and knocked the door. There w...as no answer until he knocked again and it took at least a minute that the door was opened and Mr. Jack Kyrakakis stood there wearing his undershorts only. Of course this caught Dylan by surprise and he mumbled and stammered about doing some yard work and JK answered in positive, saying that yes; in fact, he needed some weeding done in his back garden. They even stored potatoes and other root vegetables in the barn and we ate of them almost the whole year.A week before Katy was to leave for her visit to her son, she asked me to take a walk with her. She took me across our last field and then pointed over the land that lay in front of us."This farm is up for sale. If you and the rest of the family don't disagree, I would like to buy it." Why?" I blurted out before I even considered what she had told me."Two reasons. First we would be much more. When he heard how much gold we were finding, he was beside himself.The mine had already begun selling coal to passing steamboats and had a large sign advertising the price. Each of the captains who bought coal thanked them for the service, exclaiming how difficult it was finding enough wood anymore and how much time they saved stopping once for coal, instead of having to stop twice to chop and load wood. The coal was usually loaded in less than fifteen minutes, compared to an hour or more to. "I ain'tlettin' ya within an inch of this rock!"Harold had changed since I'd last seen him. His hair and skin werewhite, and so were his eyes. He was holding a sword with an eagle crestat the base of the blade - Gyrfalc. Gyrfalc had a blade made of an alloythat looked like Sheffield plate, and a purple hilt and pommel thatlooked very incongruous compared to the blade. As we fought back andforth across the chamber, neither of us asked for or received anyquarter."Damn, but you're good, lady!".