She sounded sincere, though, and there were lots of her kind dotting these hills and valleys.She sounded sincere, though, and there were lots of her kind dotting these hills and valleys. I took her hand in mine and said, "I feel so sorry for you living like this that I could cry. But I still have your husband in the back of my mind and that bothers me no end." "Okie, Ed. He's been gone for quite a while; it takes him almost a week to get up to the mine. He takes a burro along to carry his gear; his tent and food and stuff and he always plans on bein' gone at least a month. He couldn't get back at the earliest even if he just went up, took a look and headed back, lessen a week from tomorrow. No way. Come on, be a sport. Help me make a baby. You can can't you?" "Sure I could, but I've often said to myself if I ever had a kid by anyone I'd wanta know about it and see it and touch it and help it grow and go to school and stuff and if I knock you up doing an overnight stand and then drift away I could never realize all those dreams of mine. Capeesh?" "Oh, sure. I understand, but I'd keep in touch with you and come and visit you if you don't live too far away. We ain't got a whole lot of money, you know, 'cause I think that mine is more rock than anything else and you can't buy food with gravel and rocks. Then, too, you got a means of gettin' here. You could come and spend a week or so and play with our new baby anytime ya' would want. |