."Then I hung up the damn phone.Flashback – Major M – Undisclosed baseWhat the hell! Damn, Sgt. Reynolds just hung up on me! I didn't believe for ... moment he had cell phone problems. I called again and heard, 'The phone you have reached is not in service or is out of our service area.'Son of a bitch! I had a good mind to recall his ass back to America and then send his damn ass to Thule!My office phone rang, I answered and the Old Man yelled, "What the hell..."I interrupted, made my own static. One of the things that I requested from Art when I ordered up the vehicles was that he included a chest freezer in the back of the cargo box. It was plugged into the vehicles power system and it was working fine. Most of the mammoth would go into it. The rest including what we kept from the elk, bison, and Aurochs would end up in a number of oversized high tech coolers that Art had provided us. He'd given us three dozen of them when we started discussing our plans to give our surplus meat to. Once her family had left for church I broke into their house thoughan open window. Once inside, I explored the house and found a little closetjust outside her bedroom. It had a louvered door. While I was standing insideit, I could see the hallway and her doorway. I checked the hinges and decidedto lube them to be sure they would be quiet when I sprang my surprise on her.So I got inside and waited for her to come home. What a surprise she wouldhave! Finally, I hear some noise downstairs. She is. This is the way you make babies, after all." True. She reached behind her and started working on the buttons of her blouse. "I should have told you more, but I didn't know who else would hear the message."He began undressing, too. "Good point, I didn't think of that." Could you give me a hand with these buttons?" Danny had been gone for nearly two weeks, off on some sort of training class for the bank. He'd gotten back last night, leaving a message for her that he had, and that he was bringing.