On Sido's deck, with a view of the autumn golden East Bay hills, two womensat together enjoying coffee, pastry, and each other's company. "It is time that I meet Nico and Anne-Merry", Sido -- just returned from New Orleans -- said to Caydance. Griff was at Huygens preparing for a cafeteria-located beat El Dorado Poly council of War. Jack and Giselle were spending a day and night together in the Wine Country. "But first I want to see what you think of my plan. Somewhere in what was once Acadia, I will seek a small museum that is interested in buying the Music Box Book of Hours. There are gaps in the provenance, and I am not expecting to get a substantial amount of money."

"Nico has connections that will be helpful, And I think you will get more than you expect, maybe enough to start your own gallery here in California and open it to the public."

"That is more than I expect, but the price will include shipping. Leaving the Bayou with my family bands playing the music box song of sailing and returning, we will ferry this centuries old book up the Mississippi on an old Riverboat, where my Mom and Dad played when I was a child. Along the way, I hope that somewhere you, Griff, Nico, and Anne-Merry will join us, and that on a road along the St Lawrence River, Pete and Merry Lafitte will join us as we take the Music Box Book of Hours to Nova Scotia. Then, as the song says, we will return to our distant homes."