Sam knew of the afternoon trysts, and by exploiting the other man`s weaknesses, by blackmail, he had hatched a scheme, which Gideon, desperate not to ...alert Ethel to his debts, found he needed to go along with! It was a way to add again by blackmail, yet another vulnerable girl or two as fresh meat to Sam`s harem and as in this case, usually it was hard-up female student`s! This scheme involved Gideon, enticing the girls to his office bed, a time or two, getting them into a very compromising. I have no way of knowing if he thinks the theme park is a good idea or not. He does not seem bitter, just unhappy. His eyes glisten as he looks up. He waves a stubby finger at the ceiling, as if to include the whole house.“Was here with the wife, but she’s gone now, poor dear. Twelve years.” He nods, drinks. “Been no one since her.”“Oh no,” I whisper.He shrugs.“Lucky to have had what I had. Still, it gets to you. I just farm. The land is always happy to take from you.”I dazedly wish I knew more. For the next two months every time I saw a guy who had been at the party that night I wondered if he was the one who had fucked Rita. When they looked at me I tried to see if I could detect anything in their eyes, something in their facial expression, anything that might tell me who it had been, but I never saw anything that gave me a clue. Gradually I put the episode out of my mind and I'd almost forgotten about it completely when John, the VP of sales, threw a barbecue at his home one. The prison had been here a long while.I walked in and to the desk. "What's the job?" Guard for a load of freight. One way south, one hundred thirty-seven miles." What's the load?" I didn't want to be guarding anything that would be easily stolen. We would be going through some rough country."Load of rifles for the fort. The army already took off with two loads and hired us for the last one. We're a day late already." What's the pay?" I was down to horse trading now.When I heard what the pay was.