the bandits made off w/ the Chinaman's gold the wily c** trying to chase after them on a slow moving donkey; w/ nowhere for the old Chinaman to go but the fort of the Zenia clan; living on the land for generations; the girl of the manor deciding to have a go at the bandits descended on them breaking their backs taking their ***** & distributing it to the Chinese; sitting beside the fire w/ her cat an adventurer in his own right Fritz mourned the loss of his dear brother knowing little of the stars he had once looked upon & declared himself Prince of all he surveyed; snatching the moon out of the sky hand in hand w/ Mistress Medusa both now dime novel myths told for millennia by little aborigine children as their grandparents had been handing down the tales unchanged since the Stone Age when the tales were already ancient