But while I was talking to the hostess getting ready to sit, that Julie came by. I really was hoping to avoid her and she was even more bitchy if that...was possible. She gave me a real bad time about being alone and about what kind of person goes out to eat by himself. Finally, the hostess glared at her and told her to stop. She was about to go do her job when Mrs. stevens suddenly swept into the area all energetic and asked loudly "did you get a nice private table honey?' She took me by the. I guess you can meet each other after your spanking. Now where was I?" You have given me twenty swats of the paddle. I have ten left." I said."On these last ten, please count them out loud, but this time say 'Thank you, Miss Johnson' after each swat."SWAT!"Twenty-one. Thank You, Miss Johnson."After she gave me the thirty swats of the paddle, she said, "Stay bent over so that I can examine my work." Then I felt her hands on my red and tender bottom. "You can stand up and get dressed,. Duke called Frank, over to the captains cabin."Frank, do you hear that up ahead?" Yes! he said.Duke looked on, with a frightened look in his eyes."Those are rapids near the West Bank," he said. The water must have dropped some since the last time we made this trip."Frank raised his right arm and laid his hand upon Dukes shoulder, we'll make it, I got faith," Frank said."We need more than faith." Duke replied.Duke turned and rubbed his face as he called down below to the engine crew and and. Sharon then turned to her mother. "You must have hated your parents and your uncle, mummy. How could they do that to their own daughter?"This was the sort of reaction that Roger had been expecting and he was ready. "Sharon, we told all of you in the story just how much your nanny loved my father. Now Caroline and I never went without both in material things and in the love of our parents. All right your grandmother and Caroline may have paid a price but our family unit remained intact and.