I looked up, but it was only a cloud passing across the sun.~~~ My student-free morning was finally over. Josh’s thousand word essay only kept me en...ertained for ten minutes of the almost three hours I sat alone in the classroom. Sadly he used up most of his insight in his selection of the subject. There wasn’t really much meat in the essay; he wasted too many words on a misguided attempt to explain Fermat’s Little Theorem and not enough on the commercial and social ramifications of secure,. Done. Nothing. Sir.”Her words were individually enunciated, her sentiment clear, and momentarily Sherman was taken aback by the emotion with which her speech was infused. But then he turned to his Lieutenant and whispered into his ear. The junior officer stood to address this small, hastily gathered kangaroo court, and spoke directly at the girl as he looked down upon her. “Despite clear evidence to the contrary, Catherine McCown has failed to confess to being a Confederate Spy. It is of. “Not much like Newgate is it, Colonel? Then, Napoli is certainly not London.”He set down his goblet on a silver-topped side table, lifted a decanter, and poured me a matching goblet. I took it, bemused by the richness and comfort surrounding me.“Cheers,” Domingo said, and clinked his glass with mine.I drank, still in a state of bewilderment.“You may not be so surprised at my comfortable incarceration when I tell you I am the employee of a cabal of rich, influential, and powerful men. Nothing. . . "What next?" she said and giggled . . . "Well I only came to read your electric meter" I said, "so if you could show me the meter, I will do my reading and be gone" She frowned and then beckoned with her finger "this way", I smiled weakly, stood up and followed . . . I followed her out of the room and turned right into the long wide hallway . . . struggling not to look at her firm buttocks slowly rolling from side to side, I firmly fixed my eyes on her legs, below the knees to be safe . ..