M. the Barman came over to us and asked us if we wanted one for the road as he was closing in a few minutes. He said that as it was my birthday the dr...nks would be on the house. We decided to take him up on his kind offer.I walked up to the bar to get our drinks and as I was waiting the man standing at the bar started talking to me. By now, apart from mom and me, he was the only customer left and he should probably have gone home as well because he seemed pretty drunk and I had great difficulty. It was a measure perhaps of the Captain's degree of self-delusion that even this knowledge did little to dent his belief that he was a great pilot and that he would single-handedly liberate his home planet.The Rebecca took the same twelve days to return to New Woden as it had to make the outward trip. Ben, Sarah, Leona and Nathan were in a business-like mood, buoyed by the success of the scouting mission, but keenly aware of the scale of the task that faced them now.It was true that they taken. "Wow, no, wr ... row. Row-row-row!" Proper!" P-roper! Proper!" Very proper!" Verry pw ... proper. Ve-ry proper. Very proper!" Now travel! You can do it. Travel!" Trabvel. Trab ... Travel." Elizabeth beamed. "Travel!" I know how much you want to speak, but do it properly. Consonants! Don't be sloppy with the consonants!" Yes, modher!" Elizabeth grinned.Anita Heyworth made like swatting Elizabeth's behind, and with a squeal, Elizabeth hid behind Vanessa."You cheeky brat!" Anita mock-scolded her.. Anyway, it became a little game for me. I always looked in the bible inevery room I stayed in and, of course, I never found anything. I made alittle promise to myself that if I ever did find a number I would callit just to spite the memory of the guy who had wound me up.Well, after three years I was now looking at one of the fabled messagesin the inside front cover of the bible in my room. It wasn't much of amessage. It read simply, 'Jamie 01435 760365 - shes a special girl' Isat there and.