" Now my newspaperman insticts took over and I was mentally running through the list of guys at work. Older to someone her age could mean 26 or 27."OK... I said, and left it at that. I really didn't know her that well and didn't want to become that nosy old man from work. I could sense that she wanted to tell me more, so I asked her if there was something else she wanted to talk about. She hemmed and hawwed for a few seconds, and finally said, "If I tell you who it is will you promise not to make. ”“Sir, I thought it prudent to do so, seeing as he is under arrest for piracy.”“Tell me LTJG do you have an arrest warrant for the captain? No, you don’t. The captain is to be detained on the suspicion of piracy not arrested for piracy. Do you realize what you’ve done? You’ve, you’ve boarded a civilian vessel under arms and taken her captain hostage. THAT IS PIRACY LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE BECKWORTH!” The last was more of a scream then a shout. Jake was worried for Lt Stevens. The LTJG was. ” Then, he warned, “I’ll have to give you half of that in platinum.”Some shops didn’t take platinum, since it was hard for them to make change.“That’s fine.”“I hope you’ll bring your business back to me when you can. All deposits are now stored under mage locks—I bought a couple spells from a wizard who passed through, so I’m the only one who can open the safes.”“I’ll be away from Four Roads for a while, but I’ll be back when I can,” Corec said.After leaving the moneylender, his next stop was. It was three days since he had broken off with Selma, and he had decided to make a real effort to patch things up with Betty. But she seemed so busy lately. She didn't come home until late in the evening the first two days, and last night, she had been so moody and preoccupied that he hardly dared broach the subject.A definite change had come over her, and Doug just couldn't figure out what it was. It certainly wasn't just her new job or the new clothes she bought. She just seemed like a.