Just as he was about to shudder, he dragged her head away from his body and pulled her up, still by her hair, until she was upright. She was sobbing w...ith the pain by now and the tears were running freely down her face."You should be crying, you wicked woman, tempting men like that. I felt your tongue trying to get my seed from me. Spawn of the devil you are," he said with disgust in his voice.Then she knew it would be a difficult visit. The men who reviled her always made problems, and usually. The front door would be open, and I should just come downstairs to the basement, quietly, because your daughter was asleep upstairs. I arrived and did as I was told. You waited for me downstairs, in the dark. It was dark by choice – the fuses were fine. I had your toy in a bag for you, the batteries already installed. How do we begin? I walked to you and we hugged. The same hug that we had shared a week before, but this time with the knowledge that it was a beginning and not an end. We hugged. Investigation revealed that onebed had been broken the night before, so badly that it couldn't be usedany longer, and the maintenance staff had removed it. The remaining bedwas a queen sized bed, but it wouldn't sleep four. Everybody else was assigned a room and told to return to the bus at atime specified for supper. In the meantime the manager scurried around,looking for another bed. He came back looking unsure of how his newswould be received. "The best I can do is provide a mattress and. You seem to attract a lot of attention Tom,” The big man laughed.“Yes Sir, but I don’t like a lot of attention, the trouble just seems to find me.”They were riding alongside a well kept wood rail fence, then turned into a large entrance to a ranch headquarters.Tom and Sally Mae were looking at all the horses in the pens and the ones that grazed on the green grass in the open pastures.“This is really a nice spread here Mr. Holliday, it reminds me of the Canady’s spread up in Newton,.