I’m in charge of the routing and scheduling. Right now, Katoomba’s on ‘er way back from Fremantle. She’s scheduled to make a Christmas trip to...the Reef and to the islands. I need a reliable navigator who can keep off the rock an’ the coral and be polite to the passengers.”“Sir?”“The whole trip’s a month. You get to wear a spiffy uniform and smile at the rich folks. You’ll be a young officer and they’ll be over-fed and over-wined. Ormiston lost a drunk cane plantation owner over two years ago.. Not only that, it is easier to do in such a confined space. I expect to be able to go deeper inside you, too, and I think that you will like that.”“Wonderful, I can hardly wait. Good night, my husband, for now.”Husband! Where the hell did that come from? Dammit, it looks like I am more committed than I expected. Well, I’ll try to break it to her gently that I cannot stay with her for very long. I need to return to my own dimension and time as soon as I can get rid of that orlan.The next. Doug stared into the crackling fire, poking at it with a stick. "Some of us think you did the right thing yesterday."The other heads nodded in agreement. Jenny was uncomfortable with the topic, it was obvious. I was too.The silence was as thick as the smoke that filled the air around us. Bill spoke up. "Someone had to do it." More nodding. Another voice said that it was long overdue. I was really nervous for Jennifer, who seemed to be pretending to ignore the conversation. She must have been. "The other big deal about these revolvers over the Colts was that there was a way to carry them with all six chambers loaded without the danger of accidentally shooting the pistol. I did have ta learn a new way ta change cylinders, but I liked that top-break feature once the screw was removed. It was almost as fast as changin' the cylinder in a Colt, an' the other features made up for that quirk.I went ta a leather worker an' had a new shoulder holster rig made that would let me carry both.