Khan was stunned by the question. It took him a moment to ponder, but then, very carefully, he answered, “No, not anymore. I haven’t for a while.�...�She took a pencil from his pen cup and pinned up her curled blond locks with it. “Then I don’t care.” She came around to his right and leaned over onto the desk, messing up his stacks of papers that needed to be graded. Her breasts were in apparent view to the teacher and her ass in apparent view to anyone who passed by the door.Mr. khan’s eyes. This is fuckin' stupid, sitting in the dark, freezing my arse off in the middle of the night absolutely busting for a pee. What for? An old fart who couldn't have hurt a fly. 'Two' had just kept repeating over and over again not to become conspicuous and to keep operational discipline whether I felt this was all a waste of time or not. I did not know what our 'superiors' overall strategy was, the aim of the operation or the outcome if I failed. Actually I had a pretty good idea what the. "I actually smiled, "Ma'am, you are welcome to stay or do anything you want."She smiled back at me, "Raymond said you were a smart young man. He's right."I realized with a little shock that "Raymond" had to be the Colonel. I had thought of him as a bit of a martinet and a manipulator. I realized then that there was more to him than that public persona.We sat together companionably for a few minutes until the radio team returned. Nothing was mentioned but they all got busy. Sheila and Linda sat. I took my laundry to Clem’s, got a shave and listened to the latest gossip. Clem was in rare form that morning, because he’d picked up some juicy tidbits at church the day before. Clem was a Baptist and attended the same church as Charles Howard. Clem had overheard Howard talking to another man about Toliver the railroad man. Howard said that he had known all along that Toliver was helping the government crackdown on the counterfeiting ring. From the tone of the conversation, Howard was acting.