Miller—" Maj. Miller is in sick bay, and a very long recuperative period lies ahead of him," said Shaw. "He's no longer in command, that's the purpo...e of this session. Please do as Col. Igwanda says."She preceded them in. As Igwanda entered Zo called them to attention; the colonel walked with Shaw to the center of their grouping and stood there for a moment, looking at them without expression. "At ease!" he finally said. "Please find yourselves chairs and be seated, our ship's captain has. My daughter tells me that she will make it easier for me the next time she comes over to visit. Now remember she lives around the corner and is here all the time, she works during the day we watch her daughter and she comes in to pick her up around 5-5:30 every day. Oh, by the way when she comes into the office she pulls her sundress down just enough for me to see the tops of her breasts, just the tops not the nipples.Now I am sitting there with these thoughts of her going through my head, her. Once we had the cattle all accounted for, Mr. Bemis spotted each of us drovers a five-dollar advance on our pay, and sent us off so he could negotiate with the buyers. I figured I was making some headway towards fixing my bad reputation, when a couple of the other cowboys invited me to hit the saloon with them. I put them off by telling them I’d be there in a while.I walked Melosa to the livery stable and rented her a stall. I flipped the stable hand a quarter and told him to rub her down good. "What do you see, my love?" he asked."Nothing. Only a faint hope. There may be one who will save me from my boredom this year," she answered in both frustration and hope.The Lady Neha watched the dark green water slide quietly along the sides of the dhow. The sun had not even risen above the mountains to the east when she had boarded the boat in Memphis for the five-day sail up the Nile to Karnak. Now it was close to noon on the fifth day. Even this early in the day the brutal Egyptian sun beat.