Yes he was single and yes, he wasn't in a committed relationship with Jackie yet although he was strongly considering it. The upcoming duty assignment... to Korea had put a little damper on his commitment to her. He was extremely particular as to whom he dated. He would have been going to dinner with Jackie but she had gone home to Denver for the Thanksgiving Holiday.He didn't think much of this assignment but he knew Lieutenant Colonel Casey meant well. On the other hand to refuse probably would. She was fairly attractive and Steve made an effort to read her name on her name tag. He did and saw that it said Veronica Begley.She saw him doing this and with a touch of arrogance in her voice said, “And you are?”“Doctor Steven Brandle, how is my patient doing?”“She is doing fine and I am getting ready to release her at noon. I am giving her a prescription for Plavix and I am changing the statin she is taking to Lipitor. I told her to call my office and make an appointment to see me in thirty. ”“Yes. We didn’t want to hurt anyone, but Sister Nancy murdered Abe. She has to pay.”A few minutes earlier... Sister Nancy dozed in the broken cabin of the crashed plane. She had slept a lot since the incident with the boys, since she had ... Abe... The cloaked figure that had haunted her dreams of late stood on the tarmac, his face hidden in the darkness of night. Behind him, an airplane that looked a lot like the one they had crashed in, except coal black, waited for her to board. She knew. As soon as he was in the air heading for his newly acquired country, the great and the good prepared themselves for the public audience he would offer on arrival, that all might make obeisance to their new ruler. They gathered at the audience chamber of the great Golden Palace and waited with the infinite patience of men whose forebears had sat unmoving through desert sandstorms for days.Finally the new Emir, may he live for ever, arrived and entered the audience chamber which gave the.