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I could have beaten Franklin by more than I did, but I did not believe that it was in my best interest to embarrass him or any other member of the Wolf Pack. So, I managed to slow enough to cross the finish line only a second or two before him. However, just to make sure it was known that mine was the superior bike when it came to speed I had outdistanced him at one point during the race by nearly quarter of a mile. That night there was a massive party in Castle Rock. Booze and coffee flowed like melt water in an Antarctican mountain forest. I met the other members of the Wolf Pack. After Wolf, there were three officers in their coffee smuggling operation: Jefferson, the second in command; Hamilton, who was in charge of maintaining the gang’s finances; and Madison, the book keeper. The other members were Paine, Hancock, Allen, Mason, Sherman, Morris and Adams, who, with a photographic memory, was the
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