Both were in the sick bay for three days before their headaches abated.The gunroom was of a mind to pay a visit to the establishment where Prideaux an... Pons had been robbed, but Captain Benning wisely refused to give them more leave. However, he had to let go John Carruthers who received a lieutenant’s commission and a posting to a frigate. In return, a new midshipman, Mr. Peter Boyd, who had 2 years seniority in rank, was assigned to Wolverine.After a few more days of revictualling the ship,. .. occupied." Occupied? What are you doing."Then it dawned upon her."Bob," she laughed, "Do you mean that you are, um... fundamentally occupied."I grunted."Are you playing with your little blue boy's toy?" Yes love. It's in me now. I was thinking of you." Oh darling, do you want me? Do you want me there. Please can I come and see." Yes Sally yes. Come quickly. Let yourself in, I don't think I could make it to the door at the moment."I heard a peal of delightful laughter as she put her phone. It looked like the men were huddled in one area and the women in the other. I went to a cooler and grabbed a beer and started shooting the shit with the guys, catching up on lost time. Time to time, I would look over at Lisa and found her looking at me. I gave her a smile and she got up and walked over to me. We hugged and said hello."You look so different, Joe. You've changed a lot! The work outs have paid off, I see," she said enthusiastically."Thanks, I worked hard on this."I looked her over. "So, if you didn't believe my story when I first told it to you, then why did you take the job? Why follow me to Egypt?" Hillary shuffled her feet. "Well, you had a bag full of gold coins." Ryan added. "And it was possible you were a criminal, and that you might have been trying to fence stolen goods." The room was deadly silent for a couple of minutes. Elizabeth's face was pale, and she looked like she was about to shed a few tears. "I assume our hosts will fill us in on.