“He has been hard ridden. Rub him down, let him rest a while and then give him some water,” he said, and then addressed me. “I was at a meeting ...in Mansoura when the messenger found me. We left immediately and have ridden all night. Have you received a ransom demand as yet?”“There will be no ransom demand because the kidnappers snatched the wrong people. The targets were me and my wife but we, and Professor Crudwright and his daughter, were away from the encampment when the gang struck.”Sayeed. Ihad personally zeroed in at fifty yards. I needed no up and down or side to side adjustments ... It was up to me, the shooter, to make the mental adjustments necessary to dial it in for the variables of the current situation facing me.The first round's adjustment from dead zero was pure guesswork. Since the rifle, and the bullet, would make very little noise, I would be impossible to spot from that first shot, even if it was a complete miss. It most likely would not wake either of them.. I was a little jealous when John dressed up while I folded the plaid and put everything back into the bag to continue the way back naked, but that was our plan and as said, we always stick to that....We returned to the small road on the end of the cornfields and went into the woods and to the river that we followed back.Then the inevitable happened; next to the house a couple came down the path..I looked frightened at John, but knew the outcome. I squeezed his hand as we walked towards the. The cruisers whipped around and boosted back to full speed as the Oregon continued to drop behind the fleet. The white flanks of the Oregon still showed her battle damage as she came around and unleashed all her starboard weapons into the portside of the Victory. Explosions blossomed on each of their shields as they shrugged off the damage."Take us behind her, target her engines," Ted said."Yes Sir, moving into position on her flank," Lieutenant Kathy Jenson said her fingers flying over the.