Kelly said that she thought that since they were both adults now, that it probably was a good idea. They didn’t speak much for the rest of the way b...ck to the house. When they arrived, Val parked in the back by the pool, and when they finally came to a stop, Val asked Kelly to wait out by the pool and she would be right back. Kelly did as Val had requested, and Val went inside for a few moments. Kelly was sitting on a lounge chair when Val came back out, she was carrying a bottle of wine and. "She nodded, not meeting my eyes. "Yeah. You know, you don't get to pick who you work with when you first make detective."That was a pretty clear statement of what she thought of Rank, and I had to grin. I found myself wondering whether Tina Callahan had contributed to the caption contest.Rank walked in, carrying stack of folders. He's a thickset, jowly man in his fifties, with a nose like a potato. He was wearing a wrinkled brown suit and a stained tie. His macho persona surrounded him like. "The girl ran off, jumping over the two bodies at the foot of the steps."Now," I told the mewling inn-keeper, "you are going to dispose of your friends." I bent and relieved the dead officer of his purse, boots and sword and then had the German drag him to the river and roll him in. He did the same with the two soldiers piled at the foot of his stairs after I searched their bodies. By the time we came back from the third trip to the river bank the girls were sitting at one of the tables, all. What he said goes, and heaven help anyone who questioned his judgment and decisions. In the matter of choosing girls it was to him a simple equation; they had to be white, pretty and compliant. Nobody queried his choice.The stadium was packed and the yells and cheers of the spectators was deafening both during the plays (mainly women shouting) and during the time-outs when the Cheerleaders came out on to the court to go through their intricate routines. It was mainly men doing the yelling.