”“So, are you going to invite me inside? It’s cold and windy out here and exposed in other ways.” I looked up and down the pecan tree-lined st...eet. Several cars were parked a half-block away.“I’m sorry Richard, come on in.” He led me through the entry hall and into a study filled with books, both medical and religious. “Connie!” he called to the housekeeper, “Put on some fresh coffee and bring out that coffee cake you baked this morning.”“But Doctor,” the housekeeper protested, “that’s cake is. She had a good job, and a pile of money, so she figured that having a baby was something she could handle on her own. She also admitted that she constant wet dreams about how her belly and breasts would expand with the baby, and how much she wanted someone to suckle warm milk from her tits.I had to ask her why she picked me. After all, I was more than twice her age, and could hardly offer any c***d with a stable home life due to the pressures of my job, and the amount of travel that was. 19 students of varied ages attended the school, taught by 20-year old Constance Harper. Robert had grown into a lanky, quick, and intelligent boy, well liked and looked upon as a leader by the other children. His older sisters had married by the time they were 15 and his brother, Stuart, never had much use for learning, so he had dropped out after sixth grade. But Robert loved school and his Daddy allowed him to continue with his lessons as long as he was able to work with the cows and horses. The fast and maneuverable pirate ships easily caught the heavily laden merchant ships.With hundreds of our ships carrying slaves and loot from Macedon, several had run-ins with the pirates, as did some of my merchant ships visiting Cyprus or Ptolemaic Egypt, and even ports in the Aegean since the pirates didn’t confine their raids to the coast. The pirates sailed brazenly across much of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Aegean Sea. Fortunately, our archers were able to fend off each pirate.