They would be prepared to take care of police business at any time. The troublemaker from Verine's home village would be the leader with two of his cr...onies. He had turned over a new leaf since his experience with us last year, and had gained respect in his village. Three Tik farmers who lived near our village would be the other members of the force. The tax collector would disburse salary payments to the police every month.There were a couple of names brought up for the new magistrate. It came. Everybody helped unload the sedan and take suitcases and clothing inside. Frank unceremoniously dumped it all in the middle of the living room and the others did likewise. Finally, when the car was empty and the living room was full, Ronnie directed them further. The kids would take their cousin’s old rooms; they had been gone for years, although they might stop by next weekend. Francine was working at an ad agency in New York, and Jimmy was a welder in Baltimore. Sue would sleep in the den,. If I would have known the words I would have sung"I enjoy being a girl!" After I got home to my sorry-looking home,though, I felt a little empty inside. My whole world turned around sinceI went to Room 01 but that was over now. I was on my own now. The onlysure thing was I decided to drop out of school. I mean, what am I goingto do with a degree in English Lit? The $10,000 check would help me getsettled somewhere and get busy finding a husband or, at least, a spermdonor, I hoped, so I was. It would be beautiful, cutting her throat while she was in a stupor of sexual satiation, slumbering innocently. He would draw the blade across her throat, making it bite deep, severing the arteries and windpipe while her hot blood pumped out onto the same old sheets where she had just been bred like a prize heifer. Then she would be cut up, and her head hid in the sheriff's office.Billy moved forward slowly, hefting the heavy knife, so big that it resembled a scimitar.Sam was waking up, rubbing.