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"No, probably not," I said, searching ht choose fro out?"

"If you were bold as brass anddown theover to join us

"Exactly," I said, not co up with any answers

Everyone re over our dilehwayman bandit with slaves who look as tired as those ones do, I’d stop in a nice piece of shade where they would have a hard ti away, and I’d be able to take a nap"

We looked around the immediate area, since Ronald’s assessht-on One of theetting up

"Problem," said Winky

"What?" I asked

"After we rescue theet them all the way down to the prison? They can barely walk as it is"

"Good question," I said, once again without answers

Jauess that when ht find soet them out of the area We can also put theer, of course, but it could work"

"So long as they can hold on," said Winky

"Maybe one or two of the over at it and wondering hoe e our stuff to do that

"Hey, Peter," said Ja of the stuff in the trailer to accommodate some tired riders?"

Peter frowned "Riders as in people?"

"Yes" Jamal turned and winked at me

"Probably Yes, if I had some time to work it out"

I nodded "Do it, Peter Make as much room as you can in there We have three people on’t be able to ride a bike We’ll carry stuff on our backs if we have to"

Peter left the care of Bodo to begin his task, and I for one was happy to have hiood about his contribution He never coh to know that he wanted to pull his weight in so to stop?" asked Ronald, alhway

"You can’t really see it from here," said Winky, "but there’s a spot on the other side of the road from us that had some shade trees I didn’t like it because there was no cover except fro to the heavy brush that was under the trees, hway

"Let’s watch and see"

The kid who had fallen was on his knees now, causing the other two in his chain gang to have to stop as well They stayed there for a while, until their herders realized they weren’t round He didn’t appear to respond, or at least he didn’t get up The slave driver kicked hi him on his side into the street

"Oh, crap," whispered Winky

The slave driver yelled soestured to one of the other slaves, who hurried over with the other and lifted up their partner from under his arin the opposite direction The slaves disappeared froo

"They’re going for those trees I saw," said Winky

"Thank the Good Lord," said Ronald, "because I thought for a second there, he was going to tell thee the situation "Four bad guys, three slaves Can we take out four guys?"

"Are we taking the the slaves out?" asked Winky

"I’d prefer to sneak in and out, but what are the chances we could do that?" I asked

"Probably not good," she said, sighing

"You should avoid killing anyone, if you can," said Ronald

"Is that the preacher’s son talking?" I asked, trying not to sound sarcastic, but forabout h

"No That’s the guy who doesn’t want other canners to hear gunshots talking, actually"

"Oh," I said, feeling a little guilty over assu me

"Yeah, let’s keep as low a profile as necessary," said Winky

Ja stick"

"Theodore Roosevelt Very nice, h-five his tas happy to deliver

I had thought that was froe of history was better than ardless of who said it, and it was exactly what I intended to do Only a and a possibly a knife

We ate s in whispers and sharing stories frohter in our shirts Peter re his hand lightly over the dog’s muzzle so that when he did bark, it came out hway

While ere doing everything we could to be quiet, the slave drivers see the opposite We could hear their rowdy guffaws and shouts co from the other side of the road It went on for part of the day and stopped for an extended period when the clouds began to move in as they noro now?" asked Winky

"No, it’s not dark enough," I said

"But they’re sleeping now, right? When it’s dark they’ll get up and party"

I looked at the other guys to get their input