"Whether or not Jacques Marie found his Mother and Father and two sisters was not -- as far as Memere remembers -- answered in his diary," Sido told Caydance on the telephone. "Diary entries became few and infrequent as his family grew, and long days were spent fishing in the Bayou. My Father and Tyrone talked baseball for hours, but on this trip, we won't see my Father again or go out glamorous at night to hear his band play. He leaves today to play in Georgia and the Carolinas. In the restless hours after my Father left, I was thinking about this. 'No sense in planning a trip around when your Father will be here. That is impossible to predict', Memere had warned, but I already knew this.

Griff was on his way to Huygens with that afternoon's football practice on his mind, while Sido and Caydance talked on the telephone between New Orleans and San Francisco. "When we lay together long after Memere went to bed, Tyrone observed that Jacques Marie's Father was probably also a fisherman/trapper, and his Mother had native heritage. 'Jacques Marie's task was to scout a route to Louisiana, but his family probably already knew a safe route to Quebec. I don't think Jacques Marie expected to find his birth family in the Bayou,' my Sweetheart observed. 'Instead he met a beautiful black woman.'"