That night I messaged her. I didn’t any reply. After some 2 hrs I got a msg from her. Bad boy with a angry smiley. I said its not intentional. It’... guys nature. Replied her with a sad smiley. She said it’s OK and started to talk normal. Even during normal talk she used to call me a bad boy. I reply her with a eeeee smiley.Our topic got changed from friendship. We speak about love, marriage and even about first night. She used to say chee bad boy if i say anything sexy. Days passed. One day she. Either a board had split, or one was rotten and just letting water seep through it. Why didn’t it have have a pump, too? The butter-churn pumps we’d installed in Wrong Place and Thunder weren’t that complicated. Probably every ship should have one. Why weren’t pumps a thing here? Even the Romans had pumps, surely a culture stuck in the European “middle ages” could do things the Romans could do!Part of my studying on my ‘week off’ was on the development of machinery before machine shops existed.. My version was the only story ... and the rapidly developing black eye. Ouch.Fairly soon a second inflatable was tied up to the Flint. This one was the Captain’s Barge.“I knew that young man was trouble,” the captain said. “Politics and influence. I didn’t know he was armed. The easiest way to handle this is to weight him down with something heavy and drop him over the side. Washed overboard while on watch. Yes ... that will satisfy.”The “Diver” repair ship had a defunct diesel pump that served. Well, not all at one time, perhaps, but life is about making choices. I’m at the end of the first wing on your right as you exit your suite. Take some time, rest, refresh, and I hope to see you at dinner at seven, if I don’t see you before.”“We’ll be there,” Margo said. “You might get tired of hearing this, but thank you so much, again, for your help, your hospitality...”“Nonsense – a daughter-in-law of Nancy’s is a cousin of mine!”The suite itself, with four bedrooms, full kitchen,.