’ ‘What! You’ve got to be kidding. She’s so damn cute. I’m sorry Robert, I didn’t mean to swear but she’s the prettiest girl I’ve seen...in a long time. How come I haven’t met her before?’ ‘She’s been away at college. She has one month to go before she graduates. She has been going the year around so she can finish sooner.’ ‘What courses has she been taking? You have the smartest family I know. Everyone seems to be a professional something. Mary said her brother was a pharmacist, it that Lee?’. God only knows the mess you'd have been in if Karl was wrong." True. But look at it from my view. I was in a no win situation. The best I could hope for is that he judged you right and kept his word about the deal." Did you know about his plans beforehand?"Chapter 129JacobPersonal log (voice), J. J. Stone, Captain of the Flying Dutchman,12:30 pm, November 3rd, 20066:30 am November 4th, 2006 (local time)I think I invite trouble. I had just about stopped bleeding when I heard some noise outside. Club closes at two."Damn him. Now she was all horny and would have to resort to her vibrator tonight."Okay, honey. Try not to be too late, okay? I'd ... like to do some stuff with you tomorrow morning."He knew from the sound of her voice what she meant. "Oh?" He laughed. "Well, that will have to wait, honey. Save some for when I get home tonight."Yeah, right. When he got home from Sonny's, he was always too drunk to get it up anymore. Bastard. "Okay. I love you!" Love you too, babe," and he was. The railroad was becoming such an important part of the growth of trade that Charles was busy working on finding ways to increase the pulling capacity of the locomotive. They had made a significant improvement in hauling capacity just by switching to the metal rails instead of the plain ground, but he wanted to go a step further. The obvious thing to do was to mount a more powerful motor on the locomotive, and that was what he was currently working on. Charles had constructed a 12-cylinder.