I just wouldn't know what to do, I'm afraid!"The ladies walked away while the guide and he walked downa path to the beach in the resort area. He just ...ad to mentionit to the lovely tour guide assigned to him as an orientationexpert. "I was surprised she thought I was your husband, with youin a kind of uniform and all!" "Oh, well, it's kind of unusual for a young man your ageto be with a woman in this province unless he's her husband;an honest mistake!" "Oh, so if I was alone then?" . " Jake said, sighting down the short barrel.He was surprised at the quality of the tooling on such an old weapon. This was not a cheap gun. Jake looked at Joseph, then glanced around the room for a second."Oh," Joseph said, surmising what Jake was looking for, "there's a soundproof room in the back for customers to try out potential purchases," indicating a door behind the other counter.'Is there anyplace she goes that doesn't have a soundproofed room?' Jake mused."He had a wooden target to. It seems to be important from the way you’re acting.”“Thanks, Martin. It is important. Oh, and there’s no need to mention the note to anyone you happen to run into.”“Ah,” he said smiling. “Got you. I’m on my way right now,” he said standing up, grabbing his hat, and walking out the door.Yes, definitely a good man, I thought as I walked back into the room.“Sorry to interrupt our discussion,” I said, sitting back down in my chair. “Please continue on with your interviews and evaluation.”“I must. It was good he did look too. BecauseJoe had in fact pulled up not that far from his parents' cottage. The canoewould have been discovered. There would have been a highly dangerous scouringof all the land thereabout. Thanks to AKA, however, there was nothing to directanyone to the location at all. The canoe went into AKA's van for a while, theninto the basement of his parents' house. "Yeah, it belongs to a friend," heinformed his father. "He's gone on a long trip and asked me to store it forhim..