The Secret Court was indeed a court,but a court where penitent people would be sentenced for their their sins by the Reverend Mother of the Convent ...f St. Augustus. The sentences that the Reverend Mother passed on the frightened penitents who came before her always involved corporal punishment. Sr. Briget would present the Reverend Mother with a list of penitents,next to each penitents name was a brief description of the sin or sins committed by the penitent,the Reverend Mother would. Not me. I never hit a ball that high in my life, and didn't figure to start now. To me, the left-field wall was just a convenient way to avoid some fly balls from my bat that would otherwise be easy outs. I'd bounced quite a few baseballs off that metal scoreboard, just over what should have been the easy reach of Boston's left fielder.I didn't stay quite as hot in Boston as I had in New York, but I got at least one hit in all three games, and we won two out of three and retained our hold on. She’d almost paid it up by the time the December statement had arrived. And then, knowing that the next check would be the last one, she’d neglected to mail in the payment until nearly the deadline. Caught in the Christmas mail rush, that payment hadn’t got there. She still owed $7.32 on the card as of the January statement.The money didn’t matter. Disobeying his orders mattered, mattered seriously. The first few days after the statement, she figured that it wouldn’t matter too much; she would. The drivers window dropped down and I was met the sound of screaming k**s Lucy looked wound up I had seen it many times before the k**s fed up with the long journey.“Mike sorry about the noise”Lucy was around 40 brunette she looked maybe Italian decent rich dark eyes and olive skin with a great smile“ Don’t worry I can sort it for you” with that I said to the boys“Ok boys the choice is yours stay in the car or jump in with me ”within seconds the doors were open and the boys were eagerly jumping.