.. mate, "I thought I was just going to come when that cute orderly pulled down the covers and... you know what I mean! Just wait till he takes your t...mperature... "Rachel certainly did know what Barbara meant. Ever since she was six, her mother had used both the enema and the strap as a means of disciplining her little girl. But when her mother's brother... Rachel's uncle... was visiting when she was nine she had been very naughty, and quite insulting to her uncle. Her mother decided that her. There is a movement behind me. A young woman enters in a sergeant's uniform. She's an attractive woman. How unexpected."Mr McEwan?" Yes, that's me." I'm Sergeant Borland. I spoke to your father in law, ... er ... Mr Palmer, when he came to report the disappearance of your wife." Yes." Mr McEwan, I am very sorry about what has happened. I want you to know that my colleagues and I will do all we can to find Mrs McEwan. There is a lot of work to do and we have to start with quite a lot of. But instead of my daughter, the voice on the other end was my son, and he didn't sound the least bit full of Christmas cheer."What the hell?" Jeff demanded again into the silence.I settled onto my bed and pulled my legs up to sit cross-legged atop the covers. "I take it your sister called you." "Yeah." He drew the word out, making at least three syllables of it. "She said she walked in on the two of you banging on the couch." When I didn't answer immediately, he demanded, "Were you?"I opened my. I might be a Colonel, but you are here on an investigation and not part of my chain of command. I just figured I'd get the preliminaries out of the way."I relaxed and nodded to him. "Thank you. I have with me Lieutenant Jackson, who is my trainee. Do you have any plans on how you wish to conduct this exercise?"Colonel Newhart shook his head. "What exercise? Commander Nelson you can't actually expect your cover excuse for coming here to hold, do you? This is one of the two headquarters ships for.