i will call a friend of mine in st. louis and he will come to pick me up.-of course , ramon had no intention of going home.-he would be afraid of putting his family in danger and he had no friend in missourior anywhere else for that matter.-if garcia and norton did see him , he was putting the wroes and oreillys , the only people he could possibly call friends , in grave danger by staying another night ; but he would need the money desperately if he had any chance of getting away from laquidera .