“What? ... How? ... What?”“Paula! Slow down. Sit. Eat. Talk.”She took a seat straight across from me and after two hours of slowly eating and ...second chocolate malts, we had a date scheduled. After five of those dates, I was thinking of asking her to marry me. It was between that fifth date and the asking that the incident with Meredith and Jay happened.I dressed after my shower and told Jay that I was going to pick up Paula and meet him at the Shedd. I walked into the apartment to find Paula. The beers that I had consumed to keep my sanity during the function had long since started to wear off. The brakes of the train had just kicked in and it glided gracefully to the approching station. The doors opened with the hiss of hydrolics. At first it seemed that no-one was at the stations. The doors proceeded to close, just before they were completely shut a figure squeezed between the doors. A brunette woman no old then 22 sat directly to the seats across the aisle. She was stunning her. I'll be glad to get out of here. When will you assume command, Major?" he asked and was now sweating heavily."It will be a few days yet, Lieutenant. We will be going to Gilmore's Station tomorrow to look at it. The Ranger Training School will be moving in there shortly," I told him."That hole?" he asked in a derisive voice. "Rangers will probably find it appropriate, but no civilized gentleman would," he told us."And you consider yourself a civilized gentleman?" Seamus asked with one of his. "You think I'm some little airhead that doesn't know the firstthing about dangerous things. Well Mister Sherriff, I'm her bodyguardand this is what I'm trained to do. Those guys couldn't have been moreobvious if they tried. First they were driving a rented blue SUV andthey circled across in front of the school and then back again. Two guysdriving up and down in front of a high school, come on, they were eitherlooking for someone or they were perverts looking to get laid. When weleft school they.