"As the bus pulled away John saw Billy start to cry and Billy turnedaway. Billy quickly dried his tears because he knew what happened toboys who were ...crying.The bus went an hour and they stopped and picked up one more boy ofabout and he sat down next to Billy.He saw Billy's bag and said, "You won't be wearing those again. My nameis Ralph."Billy asked, "What are you talking about?"Ralph said, "The judge made it mandatory for me to come after I put aguy in the hospital for trying to move in on my. . very quickly"Why would you ever think I'm your girlfriend, Roger?" Why wouldn't I think that? You broke up with Larry last week," repliedRoger. "You came to the dance tonight with me." No, I didn't. Why would I? I came with my boyfriend Larry," repliedFrances. "Just what makes you think I would have ever broken up withLarry in the first place?" she asked. "I love him. We're going to getmarried. I'm going to have his babies. We're going to have lots ofchildren."Married?Babies?Lots of. "They will cure him of it at thepenitentiary." No. I want the river to try first. If it can't cure him, then we cancall in the police."The man was a native, Henri realized. He looked apprehensive, but thegirl seemed to have some power over him. "Okay," he said reluctantly."You can try. But he is not of the people. The river may not want tocure him."The Indian grabbed Henri's arm and roughly hauled him to his feet. Theywere about the same height, but the man was nearly twice Henri's weight,and. I waved to her when I left that morning. She too was on her way out. She also knew I wouldn’t be back for a few days. ‘ ‘ Then what the hell was that all about? Why not wait until you got back? ‘ ‘Come on, I know you’re not a complete idiot. Here’s a clue. She knew who was home. ‘Mark said, finally bursting with laughter. ‘I’m not sure what’s so funny about this. So what if she knew who was here … ‘ Adam stopped. ‘ Damn! That little vixen! I guess that explains why Talley was pissed. ‘ .