” Melissa was laughing at the vision. “But it was so loving my darling, so caring for us both. Granny Palmer held my hand and looked me in the fac...e. “Sarah, you lost your husband and I lost a wonderful son, and Melly lost her Daddy. You have to move on,” she said. “You need a new companion, a new lover, a new mate.” “I’m fine,” I said. “Melly and me are both fine.” “You are devoting yourself to Melly, darling, and it’s wonderful, but you have your own needs too. Melly will go to college, or. " Yep," I said, spying some lights ahead. We pulled into the yard of a large inn that stabled stage teams. I got the horses and my mule settled, bought an old sheet and a piece of canvas and wrapped up the dead men. If it had not been pitch black by then, I might have buried them, but I hoped they would keep and the critters would leave the corpses alone. It was fairly cool as I recall, frosty in the mornings.Laura and I had a meal and some beer. She tried to tell most of her life story, but I. She came in and complimented me on my outfit. She thensat me down at the dressing table and styled my hair and appliedsome makeup. She then gave me a pair of black tights and showedme how to put them on without laddering them. She opened thewardrobe and inside was a full length mirror and when I lookedat myself I could not believe how good I looked.Mrs Russell then took my hand and said for me to come and meet'Susan'. I was very nervous and when I entered the kitchen Ialmost chickened out but. Audrey told me she loved my playing. Embeth added that she loved my hair as well. I wanted to tell her I loved her chest; that I would guess her lungs could hold a positively impressive breath from a musician's perspective, but knew it would come out dirty, so I didn't.My break ended and I returned to the bandstand. I didn't see much of them throughout the last few numbers and almost forgot about them. We finished up, and packed up our gear. I helped load the speakers into Albie's van, and then.