He was also black. He walked with a slight limp, but not with what I always thought of as the characteristic gait of a man with an artificial leg. Th... other thing I noticed was how he was dressed. Neat, pressed, almost military in his presence. I guess that shouldn’t have been a surprise. When they had finished almost crushing each other in welcome, Rance turned to me. ‘Julie, I’d like you to meet my very good friend, Brent Rhimes. But almost everyone knows him as Buster. Named after a boxer,. I asked them if they wanted to share cooking responsibilities or if they wanted me to hire kitchen staff. They all had an opinion, and they all discussed it. They decided it would be better to have a professional cook and nutritionist so we can have variety in our menus, get all our vitamins, and all stay trim.I called personnel and asked them to find us the nutritionist and kitchen staff we needed. I took the girls to meet the staff who cleaned our house, the crew who kept the pool clean, and. I told him that we had brought down a half-dozen Redcoated officers and twice that many dragoons in our fortnight of scouting, and he seemed pleased but still unsympathetic to my needs. It was, of course, a slight exaggeration, but I was pretty sure I had winged one subalteran and knew I had done several Redcoats including a big sergeant."Try to find Gilly," he said after I asked again. "She's probably around somewhere, poor woman. A good lay, she was." Who?" One of the camp followers," he. I’m probably missing out on the perfect tan right now.’ ‘If only my problem were that simple,’ Rainey thought morosely, but she didn’t say anything. At her silence, Karen sat up in bed. In the darkness, Rainey could see the waves of her long black hair fall around her shoulders—she looked like a model with artistically tousled hair in the midst of a shampoo commercial. ‘Are you okay,’ Karen asked, and Rainey almost laughed aloud at the understatement of the question. ‘Sure, I’m just thinking.