Down at the other place, we can drive them about a day and a half over to Little Tree, Texas and load that big herd from there. I reckon the buyer pay...s the freight?” Eli threw at the man, grinning.“We can work that out, if you have that many head of tick and disease free cattle. I’ve bought cattle at Little Tree, Texas in the past but I’ve had to be particular, some herds were tick infested.”While they were talking back and forth, the other men of the family started coming in and sitting at the. ”Try as I might I could not keep my eyes open, and I slid headlong into the arms of Morpheus.When I awoke I was sitting in a chair facing the large desk.However, my wrists were firmly bound to the arms of the chair, and my ankles bound to the front legs.Seated behind the desk was the blue-garmented figure last seen in the whipping room. I could still not see her eyes, as there was a mesh of net covering them.Madam Cleopatra noticed my awakening, and raised both her hands to remove the face. Riko and Riley were in hog heaven as they drove out together in the truck with all the merchandise. They’d left two days before the rest of us. Beca had elected to spend the two weeks we were gone with Joan in Chicago. Nanette was working and holding down the fort at the farmhouse. She was going to go up to see Beca and Joan over the weekend.Livy, of course, had left for service on the fourteenth, eight days before we left for Kansas. They had been pretty weepy days for Rachel. And the rest of. You will find the household rules and the community rules posted on the refrigerator in the kitchen. I expect all of you to fulfill your roles according to those rules. Go and look at them now."i stood and walked into the kitchen, where I found the rules posted, as Master had said.The community rules were lengthy, but the rules for women were simple. Women could not be the head of a household in the community, nor serve on the Homeowners Association board. Women were forbidden from wearing.