I had started a wooden fort way down in back of my house. All the wood and nails came from scraps my father brought home from the demolition he was do...ng.I built the fort out of doors about 20 feet up a big oak tree. It had two floors and a deck.I brought Faith up one day and showed her just how much you could see up there. We could see our house and see if anyone was coming ahead of time. We were spending most days up in the fort. We did a lot of talking and that was when Faith told me about. "Zach kept his face impassive with an effort. "It's just, you know, the wedding. We've all been jumpy, recently."Christa gave a rueful laugh. "Yeah, no kidding. Well, at least we get to relax now. A nice, sunny week at a four-star hotel with nothing on our minds."Nothing on your mind, maybe.The reception dinner was plagued by the traditional delays—servitors tripping over each other, the wrong foods ready at the wrong times, the DJ's equipment throwing sparks and almost catching some aunt on. 'I thought that was surely the end of it all, but he wasn't ready to release his mother from her torment. Cephus held his mother down, not letting her even raise up to relieve the strain on her back, and told me to go into the bathroom and bring back the tub of water he'd fixed ahead of time, and the wooden straw.'His mother tried to get up when she heard him ask for the wooden straw, and it made her almost crazy trying to get away from him.'I brought Cephus the things he asked for without. The other was to appear and testify to the Senate Embassy Security Steering Committee. One was Friday morning, the other was Friday afternoon.I had no time to testify for either committee; and I said that in the reply I sent to each. My time needed to be directed to catching Saif and his associates.I called Victor to discuss the Namibia situation. It was going to be quick call but turned into a long conversation. We discussed the issues that my men had concerns about at Kampala and several.