"I decided that two could play the humouring game, and the first-name game. "You certainly seem to have it all worked out, Laura," I told her."I have,... she said complacently."All right," I said. "Wendy, I think perhaps Laura would like to see the rest of my delusion. Let's show her what's going on here. Take the phone off loudspeaker a moment, please, darling, and pass me to Fran, if she's there."I told Fran that she and Connie should go downstairs and tell the rest of the girls to relax, the. It was the tea. You and Cornelius weresevered a very special blend.I opened my mouth to say something, but a heavy thudding sound frombeside me easily stole my rapidly deteriorating attention. I glancedover to see Matthew's head on the table, a soft snort emanating frombetween his half-parted lips."Poor thing," she said, standing up to move the bowl and mug a fewinches away from the slumbering man. Then she stroked her fingersthrough his close-cropped hair. "I really didn't want to have betray. “Of course, as it was a sudden death, the police were summoned. There was no indication of foul play so there was no investigation. The death was reported to the coroner who ordered a post mortem examination. So far as I know they just concluded that Foley died of natural causes.”“That’s all know really, except Taffy found this book in his room. It looks like Foley was in the process of writing a new novel. I’ve known Taffy for years. As I run this shop, he thought I might be interested in it.. No I had to correct myself, I was drunk. That bottle of Aquavit was empty when I left. So it took me almost an hour to find “Midshipman Country”. That was a segment of Deck 54, officially designated Sector Nine, Subsector nine, Segment Blue four but commonly known as Noob Country.Before I could find my quarters and my bunk, Lt. Merkus found me, displaying careful coifed locks and a leathers chest plate, he was without a doubt Pan Saran. Leather Chest plate meant he came up from the ranks before.