After a week of loving, washing up, eating, drinking a little but mostly of loving with Flora, the need to get up and get out was beginning to surface in Ross. He decided the seventh night of Flora, as he termed it now, he needed to go and see Buck Brennan about a job. Though he had not spent any money to speak of since coming to Yuma, he felt he needed to get a job, and until Bonhomme made a proposal to him there was nothing there. Flora sensed his restlessness during the night as well. In the night, while he was dozing after another session of exercise, she slipped into Bonhomme"s office which was on the same floor as the suite of rooms in which Ross was staying. Bonhomme was still awake, working at counting his money. Flora told Bonhomme that she thought Ross was ready to consider his

