The three of us headed back to the shop."You seem to have settled in quickly," I said to Claude."Once you know what you're doing, it's not that hard. ...he guys he's got working for him are OK but they're limited in what they can do. They really needed a foreman who had been around. You could feel the relief after I got introduced and worked with them for a couple of hours. I think George was pushing them pretty hard and a lot of them were uncomfortable with it. That's probably why he's lost so. I agreed a 'reserve' of three hundred pounds as I figured it was worth at least that. After a week or so Steve informed me that he had received twelve positive responses a couple of which were pretty well healed financially. We agreed that he would contact each of the prospects and have them send him their sealed bids. Each bidder had a number allocated to them to protect their identity with Steve being the only one who could match names with numbers. A date was set by which the bids had to be. Let me and Colonel Jimenez return to getting the recruits organized and training our fighter pilots and let command of the ships fall on the people who know what they are doing."David looked around at his command crew, seeing the nods of agreements he nodded his head and stood up. "You make sense Captain Walker, we are all learning new things, and this has definitely been a learning experience. Excalibur, are Colonel Young and Colonel Benoit still on board?" Yes sir,"David nodded, "very well,. Clapping her hands together Mrs Johnson barked, there's no time for that. They're on their way here. The urgency finally set in. Mrs Johnson has never raised her voice to Megan before. Grabbing a second suitcase, Megan began packing her under garments and a couple of nights gowns. The sound of the sirens coming in the distance made their blood run cold. Rushing they left the house and ran down the street to Mrs Johnson's house. Megan sat on the steps crying as the van came up the street. The.