Mayor Gil Vander looked at the three wanderers in front of him. Then he inspected the goods from their saddlebags and pack horses. These had been spread along the wall. The woman would be among those chosen by one of the single men in town during the Mating Day Celebration portion of the Harvest Festival. Her placement was no problem. Brother Amos would go to the Silver Study Hall, but how to place or confine the other man? He studied their goods and realized there was a complete kit for manufacturing bullets for different sized guns. He straightened. He knew how to handle this. He returned to his desk, drew up the chair, and sat.
“Who makes the ammunition?” He doubted if it were the Seeker.
“Those are part of our inheritance,” George answered,
Gil"s heavy eyebrows went upward. “And who
