Once more the trimmer went up and over the top of my head, leaving only a few mm left. I was almost beginning to feel sad that soon I would have to cu...m because I would have no hair left to cut. ‘Back in a second babe’ Gill said and walked to the door of the salon and put the closed sign up. I realised I must have been in the chair for over an hour. I looked up and found only 2 more members of staff were left, and no customers. The one girl was reading a magazine, engrossed in a lengthy. It was with a bit of regret but mostly relief that he’d apprenticed Jace to a wainwright in Knottline at the age of ten.Becoming a millwright had been a stroke of luck. Knottline had three mills but the closest millwright had been in Klevel, a week to ten day’s hard ride north on the King’s Southern Road. The miller and old man Scorbol – Jace’s master – had been friends and the two had been in their cups when the miller started complaining. Scorbol, having been impressed with Jace’s ability to. Alex was a man of about 45 years old, and he did not seem to be anything extraordinary, but he was obviously in charge of the night’s event.He invited Marie to sit on the couch and asked her what she wanted to drink. Marie did not drink much, but she felt the need for some alcohol to relax her before the action began. Alex asked if she wanted a beer, but Marie knew that if she drank beer, she would have to go to the toilet often and she did not want to disrupt whatever was going to happen to. Jacob noticed immediately that they were holding hands."I've agreed to pay for Amanda and Amelia to go east to college," Jacob said but he held up his hand to stall the storm of protests he thought might be coming. "They plan to study at a teacher's college and come back out here and open a school for the ranch children."Susanna smiled and glanced at her mothers. Susan and Ann nodded but Marnie shrugged.Finally Susanna unrolled the paper she had secreted away when the men entered."Pa, we've.