.. a girl?" Kinda, yeah. Its ... complicated." I think you better come with me."I shrugged, and kept my hands up as I stepped over the broken glass of...he door, and out onto the street.A couple of blocks walking later, I found myself looking at a what Ithink was once a sorority house. My captor had me kneel down while sheknocked on the door in some kind of code, and soon another woman hadopened the door and I was ushered in.There seemed to be about fiveteen to twenty women inside, of varyingages. I explained about working with my friend and that I was out of work but hopeful. I tried to find out a little more about her but other than a name, Veronica, which she hated and insisted on being called Vee, and that she was just over twenty one, I discovered nothing. As she spoke I could hear the uncertainty leave but could still detect some anger in her voice. We made arrangements to meet up at three the following afternoon at the Victoria Gardens Bandstand in Newcastle-under-Lyme.I arrived. They asked if I would be willing to do long range patrols. I was ready to get back to work and agreed. Shane had two private first classes and wanted me for the forth member of the team. They called the teams LRRPs, the LRRP stood for long range recon patrols. We were not supposed to engage or even let the enemy know we were there.Before I left the company commander read orders promoting me to corporal and gave me another Wounded Lion. I should explain about military pay, a new private earns. "Why don't you go have a talk with Simpson, while we wait for the Chief Deputy," Michaels said."Sure," I replied. I really did want to get some information from Simpson.I called dispatch and had them call Simpson for me. Fortunately he was nearby so we arranged to meet at the station. Since I was in the station, I just went to the detective's office to wait."Deputy Porter, what can I do for you?" Simpson asked."Sergeant made it sound like you wanted to talk to me," I said."Not really, but I.