.." I hesitated. "Still selfish." Barry? We've know each other since college. If anyone understands me, itwould be you. You redirected a lot of corpor...te resources into making sureyour best friend survived. That's the essence of the commitment I'vealways felt from you. Why did you do it?"I shrugged, feeling self-conscious and suddenly tongue-tied.She reached across the desk and took my hand. "A bond. A connection.Admiration."What if she was right? What if my unspoken motive had been personal?. It may be encoded as well." I have no idea what you just said, except that you can't read it." I can't read it right now. Given time, I might be able to figure it out, but I've got to capture it first." He disconnected the handle from the pickup loop and taped the loop to Cat's collar with a piece of electrical tape. Then he made some adjustments to his equipment."There. Now we'll be able to save the next one." So how far can this thing transmit? It doesn't seem like it could be all that far,. ”“I bet you that you’re not circumcised.”“That’s obvious.”“Is it? How would I know?”“I was born in Australia; we’re all uncut.”“Oh, okay,” I said, “let me think.”I took a few paces and then turned to face him. “Hmm, you’re six inches or less.”He laughed loudly. “And what’s the bet here?”“I’ll lift my skirt again if I’m wrong.” “I’d want to touch you.”“Right, it’s a deal," I said, “but I have to be off by at least two inches.”He shook his head, a grin splitting his face, and quickly dropped his. In total, we had three main stations, one at Oak Beach, one here in Port Douglas and one in Mossman. We also had five small three-men stations spread out in the inland regions of the Cape. Dad has three Supers under him, and they all look after one of the big stations and several of the smaller stations in their region.Mossman had ten permanent officers, and so did Oak Beach. We have twenty-four regular cops plus the six detectives who had to go to any of the places in our region when required..