There was an older couple staying next door and I heard them speaking English. I struck up a conversation with them near the pool. They came from Lond...on and had driven down to stay in their gite. My wife came over and we all chatted for a while. I invited them back to our gite for a drink and they accepted. It was a very hot day so no one was in a hurry to get dressed so we sat at a table in the small rear garden in our swim wear. My wife wore a black and white bikini, his wife wore a pink. "You bunch of peeping toms," I called to them and the big one just cocked her head to the side and stared at me. I explored some more before I caught three fish for lunch/dinner and left the two biggest, nearly as long as my arm but didn't put up as much fight as that first trout, on the foxes' table, as I had taken to calling the rock where it left their food. After I was done eating I began packing up my things and by the time night fell I was on my way following a stream on the other side of. On enquiry I came to know that they had a fight and her husband had assaulted her. It was very shocking as I never saw such a person in Rohit.I headed towards kitchen and made a cup of coffee for both of us. That rascal had left to his work after creating such a havoc. On the other side Shweta could not stop weeping. I had no option but to get closer to her. I held her head and wiped her tears. I tried to scratch her head slowly so that she could get calmed down. Finally she was calm and in. After being too long idle I ventured to open my cabin door and to my surprise I found no sentry at all. I crept along the hall way and saw a door slightly ajar and heard voices coming from inside. ‘I wonder if there are any Man-o-wars about the Islands of Barbados.’ said one voice. ‘I warrant there is, but the English have not bothered us as of late.’ replied another.‘Aye, nor the bloody Spaniards, though we pillage them right well.’ a laugh resounded.‘Indeed, only the Dutch ships are the ones.
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