It turned into Great George Street and stopped outside the heavily sandbagged entrance of a large building. A soldier stepped forward and opened the c...r door. "After you," said Strangways to Clegg as the two of them left the car and headed inside passing a saluting sentry and a sign saying "Office of Works". They turned down a corridor, threading their way through piles of building materials. There was a strong smell of new paint and freshly sawn wood. Outside the rising and falling wail of air. I smiled at him and said yes I was ready. He got out of the bed and went to his bag. He took out Vaseline and walked back to the bed. He told me to lie on my stomach. He got a pillow and told me to rise up and he put in under my hips. My ass was up in the air and he started kissing my ass. He was rubbing the Vaseline on my love canal. He inserted one finger in me and after a minute or two he inserted another finger and than three and than four. After I had gotten comfortable with his fingers in. It was not until two full days later that a messenger rode into camp like the hounds of hell were in pursuit and plunked down the official notice that General Lee had surrendered almost thirty thousand Confederate troops up in Virginia.It was a godsend, because our two armies facing each other in the Raleigh Durham area numbered close to a quarter of a million anxious souls hoping against hope that the war was coming to a close. The chance of surviving was a distinct possibility now and only. Dave crested the slight rise and saw Drew and Tess in the distance sitting in the shade of the tree by the gate. He smiled to himself as he was pleased to see them. He had graduated to driving the tractor few weeks ago as his reversing skills improved. It meant that he didn't spend half of his day bored sitting in the queue at the silos down at the railway siding. It was a bit more interesting. You had to concentrate fairly hard as you followed the header and the grain was transferred from the.