“We should be at the quayside in about four hours, my love. Try to get some sleep.”I was wrong in my estimate by several hours. Soon after leaving... Rouen, where there had been a change of horses, several spokes on one of the large wheels of the diligence shattered, no doubt due to the battering delivered to them by the uneven surface of the road. The wheel needed to be removed, a wheelwright found to replace the spokes, and then the wheel refitted, before we could continue our journey.Removal. She brought me a cold drink and stood my me watching as I changed the alternator. I had her reach over and help and purposely dropped a wrench or too that I asked her to get down and crawl under the car to retrieve for me. She knew I was looking, I knew she was looking. When I was finished, I said I need to wash up. She let me to the main bathroom where I washed up, taking my shirt off to rinse and dry I walked out wiping my body and pulling my shirt back down. She sat at the kitchen table. "Then we should begin," Esquire said, trying to establish his place inthe meeting."About damn time," Hammer said."We could have started sooner," Snake-eyes pointed out wryly, if someonehadn't been late."We have the usual mix," Revel said, looking almost bored. "There are acouple kids who look to be interested in joining the Cape Squad orSecret Squirrels, so we'll have to keep an eye on them. And my sourcestell me that the Masterminds have their eyes on someone too..." I think we should begin. Desmond gave up ten of his best people including two of the original Biker gang that helped him escape from Los Angeles.The night after they made the passage through the pass, the entire force was still together and the camp stretched across acres of woodland circled with outer and inner lines of defense. No fires were allowed because the signature would be too obvious on a high flying drone screen. Desmond had the twins with him and also the woman from the small town Doctor Harris with the.