The flight took four and a half hours and ended in a gut wrenching landing on a runway that had been built in the sea, but there was no splash, no sho...uts of alarm, we'd made it!As the stewardess opened the doors the hot air hit us and we grinned at each other, we had four months of this to enjoy and we intended to enjoy every day of it.It was an hours taxi ride to the villa in Puerta Rica, a beautiful little holiday town built around a man made, horse shoe shaped beach, as we unloaded our cases. Six chiefs got one, including Black Rock.Maria went with him when he visited the small ranches on the Western Land. He had the ranches sign leases with the Kiowa. A twenty-year lease didn't cost more than the windmill and well, which Tall Grass put on the property. He brought two families of Mexican Indians from Maria's village. She trained them to operate the drill rig.The ranches had never heard of adverse possession and Tall Grass wasn't going to put them in the position to use it. Law. I don't know where that there picture come from, but I'm afeared that it will git Charlie kilt afore the mistake kin be fixed. Ifen ye're goin' back through Las Cruces, please stop off at the court house an' tell 'em 'bout the mistake."Hank and Rafe were really disgusted and promised to tell them about the mistake when they got back to Las Cruces. Both men were supremely pissed over the screw up and had a very unhappy journey back to complain about the error.On top of everything else, they. Besides worrying about Sam, I wasterrified at the prospect of returning to school on Tuesday. I wasn'teven really sure why.I'd lived the last few months of my life as Joan, 24/7. There was simplyno way I was going backwards. I hadn't spoken with Aunt Vivian in a fewweeks. I needed to get back to my therapy sessions. In a way, it allseemed frivolous and unimportant. What was the big deal? I was living mylife the way I wanted to. I was happy and I wasn't hurting anyone by myactions. Why would.