" Sheb said succinctly."Sheb, its Dave. Is everything ready to go at that end?" All set here. Do you need us to disconnect our power feed to the reefe... unit?" Yes, go ahead. While someone disconnects that, lets do the cargo van. Anyone in it?" Nope, do we need a driver?" No. Hang on a second." I'd started walking down the hall to the side door near the new pad I"d built this morning. When I stepped out the door and could see the pad, I reached out with my senses in Chocowinity and found the. In the morning dad took me to a Saturday Morning gun show and talked about getting an expensive Colt 45 auto. I advised dad that he should pick up one of those nearly new Colt Detective Specials in.38 Special in blue that was so cheap and a glut on the market, they are nearly as light as a S&W Chief Special, nearly as small, had 3 inch barrels and was made all of steel. Dad wanted the nickle plated one and I winked and told him that the nickle plated ones might be hiding a flaw, but we could. ”Suddenly, one of the women shouted in Spanish, “There is the bastard who raped my sister to death!” She ran up to him and began kicking him with her bare foot in his crotch.I shouted, “STOP, WOMAN! STOP! WE NEED TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS!” She kicked him one more time before she quit and backed off, but all of the women looked like they wanted a chance at the man. I said to the man, “Now you know what you have to face before you hang. Answer my questions or I will turn these women loose on. Sadly that has all ended with the Great Pestilence, and many in Kings-town now live in penury, those that were spared that is. Besides there are too few sailors to man all the great vessels of the town, and they now sit idle and rotting along the banks of the river. My father’s success meant that we became very wealthy, and could afford to eat meat every day of the week, except Friday of course. My mother was taken in childbirth not long after my eighteenth birthday, and my father decided to go.