He has no military training or background. He'd be useless up there. I'm no Germanicus but I'm better than him." Then I want to go with you," she insi...ted."Gaul is no place for a woman like you," he held her. He'd only had two goblets of wine so he was quite sober. "It's not safe." I've been there. I know what it's like. I was a captive of Arminius for a year." I know, but things are not settled up there since Varus lost those legions. Those Germans are spoiling for another fight." Don't go. You think when you're sitting up there on the perch with your shades on staring at these women that they're not lying there in the sun doing the very same thing and staring at you?" He laughed again. "Come on, man! Get real! Sherry Greenberg wants to fuck you. She wants you to do to her what her old man doesn't." This is bullshit, Barry!" She and her old man are on the outs, you know. Supposedly she caught him fooling around with some other piece at the Annex, and they might be headed for the. “What about it?”“That little town...”“If five houses can be called a town,” Karen interrupted.“It’s going up for auction.”“What? The town?” She said, “That’s National Forest. Can’t sell National Forest.”“It’s been in the Courts for years,” I said. “The Government lost. Seems there was a Patent Deed issued in the1890’s for that mine we found in the cliff face.”“So?”“The claim included the town. Government chicanery,” I said. “They stole it.”“And?”“The town and contents are to be sold Saturday. Again, we came downstairs, basically to make tea, and to pee, she followed me down, then said “I know, bring the mop and come with me,” intrigued I caught the mop up in my hand and followed her to the toilet, (we didn’t have a bathroom back then and the toilet was the only place that had a plastic tiled floor) she took the mop from me and parked it out of the way, then bid me lay down on the cold red tiled floor that had been the bane of dads life in the laying! By that time if my old mum had.