Mark Arbour

I'll try to brew up some more drama in Chapter 22.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. The significance is that Wade has now figured things out, he's not in the dark anymore, so his only real issue now is how to deal with it. Since he's Wade, of course he has a plan. :-)

She's pretty diabolical!

October 3, 2000 Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Wade I sat in my psychology class, getting myself organized while waiting for the professor to get there and start things up. This was one of those classes that I had to take but that I’d put off, so most of the students in here were freshmen. They were a little intimidated by me, and tended to stay in their own little groups. That would change as the quarter wore on, but for right now, I was all by myself, and I was j

Maybe there's something to this astrology stuff after all. *ducks*

Wait a minute, I'm not a Pisces, and I'm usually stoned. You made your point.

OMG! How awesome to see you around! Thanks for that! I'm glad you like this one! Damn, I love a hot guy in 501's. :-)

Well, the ship isn't dead, but she is wounded. I'm sure we'll run into her again, just hopefully not literally. ;-)

Why thank you! I'm so glad Bimeny is coming home! I'm not really planning for the next story to be darker at all. Well, I engineered it so the land for East Cowes Castle is going to be donated to Mr. Nash in return for his work on Granger's own pad in East Cowes. Nash was an interesting chap, but I don't think his friendship with Fox is that big of an impediment. After all, Jervis was friends with Fox too. Besides, I suspect that if we were to dig deep into Mr. Fox's heart (such that there is one), we'd probably find that he really didn't bear Granger much, if any, animosity. I think that for Granger, Freddie and Davina are an annoying sideshow at this point. He's got enough on his plate without worrying about them; I suspect he'll leave them to someone else, probably his father. East Cowes Castle ca. 1824 (from Wiki)

Happy Birthday, my friend! If I could issue Letters Patent, I'd give you a kick-ass title for your birthday!

What an insightful review, plus I loved that song. :-) Don't worry, I've already found George a new ship. You'll meet her in the next chapter or two.

It truly is a luxury!

Two more chapters left.

There are two more chapters left. :-)

March 15, 1797 George Granger paced the deck of his ship, pondering her fate, as well as his own. He’d expected to have received orders from the Admiralty to pay off Belvidera by now, but none had arrived. He’d expected to be back in London by now, but he was still at Spithead. He’d expected to be happy to be back in England, but he wasn’t. Part of that was sheer loneliness. He’d bid farewell to Chartley just that morning. Chartley had been away from

Well, I didn't do it on purpose, and I can only post them when they're done. Hang in there!

LOL. I'm glad you're enjoying George. I personally thought that when their problems came to light, as you so aptly noted, that it made their behavior more rational, in a weird kind of way. Certainly immoral, unethical, and dishonorable, but more rational.

Thanks. I think you're getting the picture pretty well.

A good way to put it. This was a building chapter, to be sure. I think that Wade and Matt are getting comfortable with each other again after this latest round of problems. And you are right: Elizabeth Danfield is not one to be underestimated.

Yay! A review! I was kind of wondering if this chapter wouldn't get any. I understand where you're coming from in club sports, but hockey is a little different in that regard. The coach isn't God, but he is god. :-)

I can see Matt majoring in Economics, but I don't see him as a New Yorker.

GA is running as fast as Tonto with an attack of gout tonight, so I was in the process of posting when you did. I think you're right about Wade being in DC, if that's his goal, but I"m not sure that it is. I also don't think that someone like him will really have a problem getting into any school he wants to. Consider that George W. Bush went to Yale.

What an excellent post! Let me see if I can comment without giving too much away. There's a bit more to this land deal, as you mentioned, but nothing you'll find in the history books. This part of the story is pure fiction, other than the fact that there was a lot of development going on up in Idaho. Elizabeth Danfield strikes me as the kind of person who has lived with a knife over her head for so long (with Alexandra Carmichael) that she's almost immune to fear from it. It's become part of her existence, and something she has to manage, pushing those who have her in their grips, but never too far. Wade's college choices could certainly change, but I think that anything in the top 20 is within his quality range. The lawyers advised him against doing business in Virginia, but it is still his home state (and DC is his home town), so I don't think that would distract him from attending UVA or Georgetown. He certainly could go to Stanford, but it is generally considered bad form to get your graduate degree and undergraduate degree from the same school. Wade would be quite aware of that, and as it's even more important in academia, JP would certainly counsel him in that regard as well. I love the way you express the realization on the trauma of aging. You may very well be right about Jeanine.

I don't think he hates his wife, I think he's afraid of her.

He's not ready for a ship-of-the-line yet, and what's more, he'd find it to be incredibly boring. Remember, those ships spent most of their time with fleets, just sailing around on blockade duty. It was tedious, and certainly not the kind of duty for an energetic young captain.