He received a brief radio message that the Rushcutters Bay was on its way into port. He found two mugs with screw on safety lids and approved of the b...and of dark Jamaican rum that he found. ‘Thanks,’ the skipper said and looked as if she was ready to be kissed again but he refrained, not wishing her to think he was interested in more than a kiss, at least not at this stage. They sipped with their backs to the wind. He asked, ‘You don’t look scared. Have you ever been?’ ‘Of course and the worst. US 31 didn't miss all the little towns ... it went through some of them. The towns that couldn't afford the bribe or didn't think a State highway would make a difference were bypassed. The ones that paid a little up front? ... they became places to visit ... to shop and go see the machinist who was rapidly replacing the blacksmith who had replaced the wagon builder.Besides, roads helped cutdown on inbreeding.Milly the operator, knew every voice in town. She had a switch board that had black. Before long I was fast asleep and that twinge of disappointment I had sensed on my arrival was a distant memory.I came slowly to, the sensation of being caressed filled my mind. "You were unfaithful." I hear Tabitha rebuke softly, in a controlled voice of strength. I opened my eyes to find Tabitha and the girl from the bar staring at my limp, naked body stretched embarrassingly across the couch. I curl up modestly, grasping at the fabric of the unadorned piece of furniture. My brain, racing. So, on Friday, October 13, 1307; yes, THAT Friday the 13th, the armies of France attacked the Templars. I was hoping that Bertrand’s Journal would clarify what happened after that.Maria said, in an uncharacteristically humble tone of voice, “This book must be very important to my people. We communicate telepathically, or by devices that you would call computers. We haven’t kept paper records in 10,000 years.”Well, that sort-of made sense. The Atlanteans fled to New Atlantis 13,000 years ago;.