" You would accept?" Yes, were it only out of curiosity." There is something very peculiar about this chief, then?" Listen," said Gaetano, lowering hi...s voice, "I do not know if what they say is true"--he stopped to see if any one was near."What do they say?" That this chief inhabits a cavern to which the Pitti Palace is nothing." What nonsense!" said Franz, reseating himself."It is no nonsense; it is quite true. Cama, the pilot of the Saint Ferdinand, went in once, and he came back amazed,. “I still need to secure income for my destitute parents and how am I to make do without working like other folk?”He looked at her and judged that she was merely being direct and curious and not devious like most of the feminine types one found these days scheming to squeeze every last drop of commercial benefit from their fleeting conquests. That was one thing he liked about Cindi. She was not one that toyed much with subterfuge and one could depend on her simple thought processes and not try. " As long as it is just us that knows and no one else finds out, we shouldn't have to much of a price to deal with. I know it may be hard to keep it a secret when we are around people that know us, but, other than that, we should be okay. Am I right?" For the most part you are right." What did I leave out?" Well, if I for get to take one little pill of a morning, I could get pregnant, and there is a chance, that I may still get pregnant even thou I do take it." I guess I will have to make sure. “Find anything?”“Not much, turns out two of the fathers did know each other back in the day, but no real connection to any of the other families and as far as I can tell the two guys who knew each other haven’t spoken to each other in years...”“Well, I found something I want to follow up on. Twelve years ago there was a young woman raped and murdered near a roadhouse over on highway 19. The guy was caught and convicted but apparently the murder was pretty brutal.”“Got a name?” asked.