Learned it from one of your people, a guy named Mesmer ... with a little help from Houdini." Timing broke out is his best rendition of myrrh yet. POP ...he funnyman was gone.In the brief second that this conversation took place, Phillip Harbormaster called the meeting to order."Here now, you layabouts, if you don't have anything except curiosity, get your butts ... and buts ... out. NOW!"That put nine out of ten bystanders out of his quarters ... not that it mattered, the ejected swarmed the. "Just cooking ahead."He put the very large pot on the stove and brought out a bag of onions, a bag of green peppers and a large bunch of celery."Gumbo?" I asked. "I thought we were making chili." I like the 'we.' Gumbo today, chili tomorrow. What we don't eat..." He gestured toward the freezer then started to peel an onion."I don't know how much free time I'm going to have so I may not be able to help much in preparing meals."I thought there was a chance you would feel you had to do it to prove. Aldren covered close to 50 leagues before the sun was clearing the tops of the hills to the east of him. He stopped to rest and let the stallion rest as well. It would not do for him to be tired when he did catch them.He arose about the time that the sun was midway to its zenith. He retightened the saddle and mounted up once again. He set off at a pace that he felt the stallion could keep and ate and drank in the saddle as the leagues melted away. The light of the day was almost gone when. Do you have a minute to talk?”I looked at the clock and the wall and nodded. We stepped into a small room and she closed the door.“I’m sorry if my sister upset or embarrassed you last night. You seemed distant during dessert. She told me what she’d said while you were in the restroom.”“I wasn’t upset. I think your sister was, though. She didn’t realize I was married until I held up my left hand. I don’t wear my rings, necklace, or watch with my gi per Sensei Jim’s instructions. It’s a safety.