I made every light on the way to work and when I got there – wonder of wonders – there was an open parking place right by the front door.An hour a...ter I got to work Natalie, my secretary, came into my office and told me that Tom Snelling was on line two for me. I picked up the phone, said good morning and then listened as Tom told me that after thinking things over he was going to sign the contract and go with us. It was a deal that I had been working on for almost two months and it was a. ‘Mon Dieu, airport security has gone too far non?’ I threw the flower at her and snaked my arm around her waist, pulling her close and kissing her very deeply. I broke the kiss to bury my nose in her neck and inhale. I was home at last. I pulled her inside and backed her up against the door. She reached up to caress my face and said ‘oh la la, je adore monsieur scruffy’, feeling the days old growth on me. ‘I did it for you but you know I think it makes me look old’ I replied. ‘Yes, but this. I tasted a faint metallic flavor in my mouth and I looked down at the cup of soda I had been drinking. Suddenly, I knew that they had drugged me. My peripheral vision left me as blackness closed in. I staggered catching myself on the edge of the table and would have fallen as my knees collapsed, but Sally and Stephanie each had a hold of my arms and they eased me back into my seat as consciousness left me.Chapter 4: Learning to be?HerWhen I awoke, I had no idea what time it was, but I was glad. Uncle Howard had set up a rocker type separator, until the last step, which used a sluice.The first section of the process, was a hopper where a load of sand and gravel was deposited using the front-end loader. The output (discard) from each of these rocker sections formed separate piles. The first pile was the largest rocks. The next piles graduated down to the gravel that could be used in the making of concrete.The last portion, which was made up last three sections, was the water sluice to.