Lucinda looked at Jake and her face light up."Hi sweetheart," she greeted him sweetly."Hi babe." How was work?"Jake walked towards Lucinda and kissed ...er. "Fine. I've got two articles I'll be working on next week so I'll be traveling. It'll only be for three days though." Aww I hate to see you go," Lucinda pouted."Yes I know. I hate leaving you but it's part of my job. Don't worry though; it's only a short trip. Where's Jr?" He's fast asleep now. He helped me out a lot bringing me little things. " What's that mean?" Horses are measured in hands, roughly the distance across the palm. The measurement has been standardized so that each hand is four inches. So Gypsy stands fourteen hands plus two inches. That's fifty-eight inches. Princess is about two inches taller at fifteen hands." She looks taller than five feet." That's because you are looking up at her head and she's a proud girl. Arabians naturally hold their heads high, unlike quarter horses or thoroughbreds. A horse's height is. Hoping to catch him before they left for home, I rushed to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to Mr. Franklin at the hotel where they were staying. I figured the wives would insist on a night out on the town to celebrate. His reply arrived via messenger three hours later. They would leave tomorrow morning and be here in five days. When he learned about it, the director of the Mint was ecstatic that we would consider opening a bank branch here.Aside from the prestige of having a branch. Looks like the Tehran just kept steering into the Wilmington until there was a collision,” the Chief of Naval Operations said.That ended the meeting and I spent it reviewing the speech I was going to give in Las Vegas tomorrow. The rest of the family was flying into Andrews and from there Air Force 1 was carrying us to Nellis Air Force Base.By Friday evening it was clear they were going to need more disaster tents than initially thought. The whole operation was going to be a lot bigger than we.