I was standin' at the bar talkin' ta the bartender an' another patron when a galoot walked up an' tapped me on the shoulder. I looked around an' saw t...is guy who was carryin' so many guns that I wondered how he was strong enough ta walk. I asked, "What kin I do fer ya, Friend?"He said, "My boss thinks ya cheated at the poker game ya just left, an' he wants his money back."I have ta admit that I was dumbfounded. I do not know how it would have been possible for me ta cheat, but I was really. The police officer charged with delivering them to me, even apologised that he had not been permitted to remove those articles from that handbag. He understood exactly what those articles of clothing implied, just as much as I did. Especially when you add them to the mysterious, vanishing and unidentified, driver.It didn't take the police very much time to come up with the most likely candidate, to have been driving Elaine's car that night. However the man also had an alibi, although not one of. I’ll call him and make sure he’s home.”“Where’s home?”“It’s a village in the next county from ours, about 40 miles away from us, partly on the way here, actually. It’s a lovely old Manor House, dating back to medieval times. Lots of creaky floorboards, but full of character. It’s where I grew up and I love it there.”“Perhaps he will let me paint it?”“Probably, it’s just like the Forth Bridge, the maintenance on such an old house is —”Just then a little old Asian woman poked her head around the. "She then leaned her very stern face over Akane-in-Ranma. "It is your duty as one destined to be the helpmate of Ranma to consider what he would want, and have his body act accordingly."Akane began to struggle and squirm against the acupressure technique that had paralyzed her. Hearing that she was expected to be the "good little female" and defer to the "the better sex" was too much for her to lie there and take.The old woman shook her head. "I wish I could have you believing you WERE Ranma..