At the rate we were filling the swear jar, I was beginning to think Delany was going to be able to buy her a new car.From the smirk on Delaney’s fac..., I could see she’d gotten exactly what she’d wanted. She punctuated her victory with an irritating buzz from the circuit tester she was playing with.“You’re gonna run the damn batteries down.”She snickered and gave another short buzz with it before stuffing it in her pocket.She’d come up with the idea of a “swear jar,” and I thought she’d lost her. Sue’s ability to manipulate me and others around us was driving me away and yet she indicated she wanted me to stay. It was clear to me that her drive for extra-marital sex was not the only thing that she didn’t understand.I needed a drink. Sue rose and went to the bathroom. I got myself a whiskey, the first of many for that night.It was two months later that she told me that she had booked into a clinic as her doctor had recommended that she have a little operation as her period had become. That thought came later though. The first thing I realized was that I was locked on something, or rather we were locked on something. No slippery-slidey evasion, no fading in and out or around. We were locked on a molecule of something."Good! Good!" Bud was screaming in my ear. "That's it! You've got it"I felt Harley's eagerness just behind and beside mine. I felt the question in him just as I was forming the thought to ask myself. "Okay Bud. We've got it, but can you tell us what it is we've. Well, hell, I think I can keep him occupied taking notes all day long. Lenore was careful to not let anything show beyond her exterior mask, but the Chief winked at her when she reached the controls."Chief," she said, "isn't there some sort of checklist that comes with this boat?" If there were, Collins, it was lost when the boat was taken out of service in nineteen-seventy-five." PO Siglin." When the Petty Officer named looked up, Lenore had fixed her calmest expression on him. "Please, go.