Elizabeth helped each girl consecutively into the basket and we hoisted her aboard. The next job was to hoist the whaler and this required everybody's...strength. Weighing the anchor and hoisting the whaler where the two heaviest tasks on the ship. Hauling on the davit falls was a desperately slow laborious job and we still only numbered twenty or so. In truth the ship really needed a full crew of thirty or forty men just to sail her. We girls with our lesser physical strength, needed to. They’d get the message and go away.The steps kept coming—heavy, but slow. The door opened and before Cal could react Homer Barlow poured himself into the waiting room. He didn’t stop there; he was heading toward Cal’s inner sanctum. Cal got up from his chair to meet him.“Just stay right where you are, Sonny,” Homer yelled at Cal and pointed his finger at him.In a few seconds he dumped himself in the chair in front of Cal’s desk.“Whew!” He blew out the remaining air in his lungs and wiped a. ********************************************* It seemed that Diane Gates had been disrupting Alex Walker’s life from the minute she had set foot in the art class that he was teaching four years previously. In order to keep her father sweet and to prevent him from forcing her to work in the family stockbrokers’, she had announced that she was going to become an artist. To show that she was serious about her new found vocation, she had enrolled in the local art class and found herself to be. Was kissing too? I didn't know for sure.Soft lips caressed mine and though I knew it was wrong, I allowed her to slip her tongue inside my mouth. I closed my eyes and tried to think of something else. ANYTHING else. I just felt her warm soft lips, her tongue inside my mouth seeking out and exploring me. My erection was painful. I hadn't been with a woman since Tricia had passed, and that was three years ago now.She pulled away and began to dance in front of me. I was mesmerized by her swaying.