”George faltered, “Banzai, I’m not sure I can authorize that mission, it sounds dangerous.”I knew sooner or later George and I were going to d...sagree so I suggested, “Sir, why don’t you get on the horn to Colonel Maggie and see what she says.”George looked at me and asked, “She’s going to approve it, isn’t she?”I smiled at George and replied, “Yes Sir she will. I’m Recon and that is part of what I do.”The Corporal came over, I looked at him and asked, “Well?”He handed me a yellow legal pad and. Elaine was fascinated, two very good looking men sat here miles from anywhere, having a great time by all accounts. She kept looking over to them and every time she looked, one of them would look up and smile at her, Elaine smiled back, it made her feel good. Elaine finished her drink, wondering whether to have another, or move on and have an early night. She’d booked the log cabin on the spur of the moment to give herself time to reflect on what went wrong. Well she thought, no time for that. The kind with the creme filling of course.We were back at work on the prospecting by 9AM. The generator pumped water and we began digging and washing the sediment from behind the dam. We didn't look in the box were the gold, if there was any, would accumulate. The open part of the sluice showed us nothing. There was a chance something had collected in the sluice's carpet, since we were using it there as well. The water was always muddy so it was hard to see anything but large flakes and we. " Oh don't worry about that anything I spend I'll get back from the Feds and so will you. And you will get paid for taking in this little group. Hell I could probably get you the money back for having to get that van. But that would be pushing it unless things like this are going to happen more often." Well let's just play that by ear. Now I have to get two rooms ready and I'm not sure if I have enough beds but I'll see what we can do. It's just a good thing that I had all that stuff from up.