I being her pet was always asked by her to stay back and help her out in completing the task as I was also considered to be a very good artist. At thi... point I must tell you a bit more about her and myself. She was a married Bengali lady, and was the most beautiful woman in our school. Her husband was in the army and for whatever reasons she could not join him. Most of the men in the school, the male teachers as well as our seniors were attracted to her and wanted to be around her, whenever. " I thought you were through dealing with the police." Thorton said brushing a bit of cigar assh from his tattered bathrobe. "Being burnt once by them wasn't enough for you I take it." The money is good, very good," Roy said while refilling his empty glass. Those that knew Roy, kne that he was brave and even when he pretended not to be he was often curious about things that seemed out of place that was why he became a private eye. "I was bored sitting at home waiting for someone to call about. Heading up the river was almost a ceremonial promenade. People waved from fishing boats and from the riverbank the whole way up. Wrong Place went first, then Dolphin, and Filo brought up the rear in Thunder.Filo seemed happy as a prize captain, but we needed more warships and that meant converting Thunder to a brig. If he wanted Thunder after it left the shipyard, it was his. We’d probably cruise together at first, then we could split up. Maybe, after we’d run out of pirates to kill, it could. There were two layers. The inner layer was satiny nylon and came up to just cover my chest, with long sleeves and a long skirt which was enormously wide and flowing at the hem. The second layer was made up delicate lace and went as far up as my neck and chin, and then covered the entire gown all the way to the floor.I looked at Janice, amazed. "But Janice ... I can't wear this! It's too ... too beautiful!" Tutt, tutt," she said, brushing away my concerns, "my girl has suffered a lot these last.