From what he had seen watching some card playing television shows, he had come to a few conclusions on winning at playing cards. It went without sayin... that he and most people thought that you needed to get good cards to be a constant winner. When you did get good cards you needed to increase your bets to maximize your winnings. Keeping an expressionless face and knowing how to bluff in certain situations was important. There were other factors which would improve your chances of winning but. The building at the compound had burned to the ground along with the Red SUV, because whatever the Colonel had been doing at that location or whatever was stored there had been extremely volatile and burned with a white-hot flame turning everything to dust or slag.There had not, been anything left to provide any clues as to what had been going on, who the Colonel really was or who else had been involved.Clank bitched, moaned and threatened but Pate quietly showed him some of the evidence he had. “This is a nasty cut,” he said in Arabic, “but not hard to fix.”Johnny injected lidocaine under the skin on both sides of the wound. While waiting for the numbing effect to begin, Johnny directed Hala to take his vitals. The heart rate and blood pressure showed no sign of hypovolemia, so Johnny discarded the need for a blood expander IV. To a former Combat Medic, a wound like this was a common occurrence. He reassured the mother and Mister Gamil, complemented to boy for his bravery and cleaned. Still smarting from theprevious punishment, another twenty hits was not what he needed right now.But he would have gladly taken a hundred more licks if it would mean hiscock being spared. As soon as thelast of the twenty strokes hit home, Scott was bodily picked up and turnedover onto his back. He was turned and carried to the edge of the bench, andpositioned so that his ass sat on the very edge of the bench, one leg to eitherside of it. In this position his cock was totally exposed. The.