We arrived at Tring railway station in good time. As in all arms of the military of every country in the world it had been a case of 'Hurry up and Wai...', and we kicked our heels for a good hour or two before our train pulled in. Several carriages at the rear of the train had been reserved for us 250 apprentices, and once aboard we sped north. There was a certain amount of uncoupling and shunting when we arrived at Crewe, the well-known but little loved railway junction in the north of England,. You may not tell your wife but deep inside you know you cheated on her."The two were by now watching each other warily as though sparring in a boxing ring."Perhaps Dawn too did not wish to tell you about her relationship with her boss, just like you don't want to tell her about us. She wanted to pull her boss out of the depression he had gone into after his wife died and chose a method, she considered best though debatable in hindsight. But neither of you have stopped loving each other. Mind. "Mrs Brown was already reconciled to the spanking and after all had been spanked by Vicky and other young ladies so many times that going across the lap of an eighteen-year-old no longer seemed out of place. It was retribution yet again for the number of times she had spanked the schoolgirls over so many years and so as she raised the hem of her dress above her waist and stepped out of her knickers she once again felt just like one of her naughty schoolgirls just as she did when going across. It is decidedly more difficult to conquer their own descendents trained and armed with modern weapons and half a world away.I knew then, as a great epiphany, that the Old World was not the place to make a fortune. It was this New World. And I knew the key; transportation, the business I was already well situated in.I boarded the river boat up the Ohio, a spring in my step and a plan already launched in my mind. I honed it as I traveled up river, learning the ins and outs of business from.