"Yeah, right. I don't think I want to enter the dating game again. I guess I'll just enjoy my computer and surfing the web. At least I can't get any S...TD's from it!" Yeah, but you might catch a virus" I giggled. "I'll see you when I get home, or in the morning if I get lucky" Be careful, darling. I worry about you."As I parked my car in the driveway later that night, I noticed my mother's light was still on. It was unusual for her to stay up this late.I let myself into the house and walked down. That was when the first letter arrived." Frank ordered a beer from a passing waiter."Then after the last show in New York, when Max got out of the limo at the hotel, someone shot Max with a paint pellet gun. Red paint this time also. The next letter said that the paint in the balloon could have just as easily been acid and the pellet gun could have been a real weapon." Frank took a big drink of beer. "The band flew here from New York the next day and Sid thought they'd left the crazy person. Slocum. B-But whenI told him that I wouldn't have dinner with him, he... he said that, if Irefused, he'd tell the sheriff that he s-saw you... helping those crooks,who-whomever they were. He'd tell _that_ story if I didn't... go outwith -- "He deliberately cut off her words. "So you agreed to... to protect me.Nancy, I'm sorry that you thought you had to do something like that." That's not the worst of it. We... He took me to that restaurant in Mr.O'Toole's saloon. Everybody saw me, and,. His nose made me chuckle. It was as impressive as one might expect from a man of his profession. I also mused about what they say about men with large noses.Alan wasn't nice.He was haughty and arrogant. Looking down his nose came natural, I'd say. It seemed he didn't even see me at all. I tried to catch his gaze during our meeting. But he never even looked my way.The next meeting was hardly different. Funny thing was, the more he ignored me, the more I wanted him. I was like a ditzy teenager..