"I dunno Bill, she makes those cookies to tempt me with and I may babble before I know it. I think the safest thing is to head off her baking sprees." Just in case and to avoid spankings!

"New? And just...oh." A girl. A wayward girl he'd picked up on the road? "A runaway Bill? Do you think the best place for a girl like that is Wheelsy? What if someone's lookin' for her? Should she be workin' for the Sheriff?" She couldn't help the questions really, she knew Bill and strays...and she could just imagine some teen hitchhiker selling a sob story.

That was what she was picturing, actually. "Did you talk to that new Pastor? I think he does some volunteer work with halfway homes..."