"Heavy. And now we have to get the metal, too." Metal?" I asked."I'll show you," she assured me. "Come. I'll need help with this."I followed her into ...nother room with more large chests. "There." She opened one chest and handed me some metallic slats, about three feet long and five inches wide, a little less than an inch thick. We made several trips of these back and forth to the bedroom. "What are these?" Sleeping slats," she replied. She pointed to a spot of floor where wooden slats the same. Have two of them? It's not possible. NO!!!" Grabbing a nearby pipe Derrick had been using a few days before, he was soon advancing upon Derrick. "Sergeant!" Derrick yelled at the man. For a moment the man looked as if he recognized Derrick then roared and started to advance again. Suddenly a stream of electricity hit the man whose face registered shock then he slumped to the deck. "Really, your Lordship you have to stop putting yourself in these situations!" Mary told Derrick shaking her. In this case, her mother's bar...This isn't the first time he's come by to see her and he knows it won't be the last. He waited until the coast was clear before moving from a table in the darkened corner of the Roadhouse to the bar itself. Ellen was gone. She'd been gone for 20 minutes. The last of the customers was shuffling out the door.A calloused hand strokes over her forearm as she leans in to talk to him. He pushes a stray honey blonde curl behind her ear with the other and trails his. "It's too early for a pregnancy test," she told me, "But the ovulation test was positive this morning, so unless something goes south, it's a good bet that you're going to be a daddy again." I'm glad to hear it," I told her. "But don't get too far ahead of the facts. Plenty of people have intercourse at just the right time, without catching. If you don't make it this time, we'll try again, this time with a bit better communication." I'm trying not to get too excited, but I'm pretty sure,".