I was a deck hand back then, living in the focsle, pulling a whaleboat oar and doing all the menial chores. I made thirty-five dollars for the entire ...voyage. But that was how I learned the ropes.Faith was waiting on the dock when we tied up. I assumed she was there to see her father. I marveled at how much my little friend had changed. She used to have a round snotty-nosed face with huge wide-set blue eyes and long blond pigtails. That face had lengthened into a thing of beauty, lovely high. I knew you’d pull your head out of your ass and put the moves on Meg eventually and then you’d talk to me again.’ Zane gaped. ‘Does everyone know?’ ‘Know what? That you’ve wanted her ever since she moved here?’ Mike shrugged as they started to walk down the hall. ‘Sure. It was pretty obvious.’ Zane shook his head. Considering that he hadn’t even known what he felt until a few weeks ago, it was amazing to him that his friends seemed to have guessed before him. ‘Well, in any case, I’m sorry for. Mr. Hathaway was as Harry had suggested guilty. I managed to trap the prosecution with a couple of points; pyrrhic victories for in reality I could do little except after the guilty verdict make an impassioned plea for clemency. His Lordship smiled kindly at my rhetoric but ignored it. Three years! Not the longest he could get for receiving but neither the least. At least at the end of the day I had earned my first fees as a barrister. Upon my return to chambers, I found two more briefs on my. It was summer, and school was out. My sister Joanne or Jo as I called her was getting ready for College in the Fall and working at Hal's burger palace for the summer. I attended summer school to pick up a couple of art courses and to stay busy.I was home when Jo came in from the burger palace, and she smelled like hamburgers. Our parents were out for a day of golf and Dinner at the Country Club. I was in the den drawing and thinking about pizza or Chinese food for dinner. She came and watched.