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“What’s going on between you two?” Empty wandered over to the stove

“What do you lance

“I heard you two arguing just now”

“We weren’t arguing Just disagreeing” Dallas turned on the burner underneath the cast iron skillet “We worked it out Everything’s fine now”

“Good” He nodded in satisfaction “The Rutledges are giving hi more on him”

Dallas knew that better than he did, but she chose not to say so “Did you know Quint is a grandson of the Calders?” she asked instead

“Is that a fact?” E about the Calders, that they’d send one of their own”

“How?” Dallas gave him a puzzled look

“When they’ve got trouble, they don’t send somebody else to deal with it; they handle it themselves You don’t see that too often nowadays,” he added thoughtfully “It’s kind of nice to know there are still people like that around”

A faint smile curved her mouth His words were an echo of one of the old codes of conduct that decreed a ly rooted her grandfather’s beliefs were in the old traditions, Dallas wasn’t surprised that this decision of the Calders to send Quint had found favor in his eyes

After adding a final strip of bacon to the skillet, Dallas started to reseal the package Empty peered over her shoulder

“Don’t be so stingy with the bacon”

Dallas stared at the six strips in the skillet and frowned “Six isn’t stingy, unless you plan on having some”

“I already had ot a e if you fried it”

She added two e skillet “How’s that?”