I am sorry." I noded as I staired into his sad, sad eyes. " Here, come with me and I will get you washed up and dressed in better clothing. Then you c...n tell me about those people who took your wife" I stood up and helped pulled him up when someone came around the corner. He was a young guy, about 2 or 3 years older than myself, being 22. He had wonderful green eyes, the same as mine, and gourgous jet black hair. He was taller than me by and inch or 2. He wasn't buff but he was deffinatly not. Defending Mr. Jacobs is not your or Mrs. Horne’s responsibility.’ ‘I don’t like the sound of that Walter. Ken has saved our lives and tonight I am sure that he saved at least Consuela’s and probably several more. There is no way that Marta or I are going to drop him on a public defender. You and the whole law firm if necessary are going to keep our employee from suffering for his actions in our defense, do I make myself clear, Walter?’ ‘Completely Mrs. Friedman, and I am pleased that you have.. Carol's face had that air of resignation as she left the room and went upstairs re-appearing a couple of minutes later with a thickish looking leather strap. It looked about two foot long and about two to three inches wide and maybe half an inch thick. One end it seemed was split in the middle the other end had a wooden handle presumably to grip it by. I looked on a little dumbfounded as to what was happening.“Well young lady you will receive twelve strokes of the strap, and you young man as. ” I was still worried about being on the wrong side of the law and what kind of fallout could catch us from the captain getting relieved. And despite spending most of my waking hours at the company, I knew even less of what might have happened to him than I had last week.I was so preoccupied with my thoughts that for a short while I actually forgot to be jealous of my wife upstairs with her black boyfriend. At least I'd get her all to myself tomorrow night, I mused. And lord knows that girl has.