"Told the gang that he was worth a fair piece of change."Virgil looked at his brother and they both nodded their head knowing that the man they came t...o town for had once again found himself in trouble."I'm not sure how he does it," Virgil mused. "He just naturally finds a way to get into tight spots." Hmm, that's true Virg," the brother said. "But he always seems to know how to get out of them." Why do you fellers want to know?" The sheriff asked looking at the two men with some suspicion. "Did. "That means ... I'm on my own."Tonya nodded. "We'll set up some dead drops."Laura shook her head. "Not if I've got a tail. That'll arouse suspicion,especially if you and Dick start attracting interest, too." Shit," Tonya swore. "How the hell are we going to pull this off now?"She sighed heavily. "You know that Collins came from a ... rough city. Ifhe starts to get suspicious, well, you know it wouldn't be the first timethat someone _inconvenient_ had problems or disappeared."Laura bit. Ijust want to cry, but I don't."Mommy I look even more girly now than before." As I start to cry, Ifeel a little pee squirt into my diaper. I stand next to mommy. "I don'tlike my hair like this mommy, please I look like a little baby girl now.I want to look like a boy."I can see fire in my mommy's eyes; I try not to have eye contact withher."You're the one that wanted to have long hair like the rock stars. It isyour own fault; you should have had your hair cut short like all theother boys. I. In fact, she had no reason to expect that the London Borough of Hillingdon would be any better than her original home. Her trek wasn't one she'd have willingly chosen.After more than four years, the plague that had forced Eugenie to leave her home in the East Midlands was still devastating England just as it was the rest of the world. Eugenie had heard that it was the nation's worst such pandemic since the Black Death, but as there had been several other such outbreaks in the last forty or so.