Mind the Time
Copyright© 2014 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 29
"Do we have a leak?" Vee asked.
Wendy blushed, "What makes you think that?"
"I keep hearing dripping water," Vee said. "But the bilge pump hasn't run."
Wendy blushed a little harder. "Umh..."
Vee turned to look, there was a wet spot on the teak deck ... Wendy was standing on it. While Vee looked a drip fell from under Wendy's Tee Shirt. Wendy was looking at the nude beach ... looking? Standing on tip-toe and craning her neck looking. There was another splat. Wendy blushed deeper and looked at Vee ... the next blush clashed violently with Wendy's hair.
"Oops."
"Grandmother!" Vee turned to look where Wendy was looking.
"Oh," she moaned. "I see," Vee said.
"Quick ... get the binoculars."
"Grandmother! For shame!" she looked again. "Where are they?"
It didn't take long before they were fighting over the binoculars. Vee ran below and grabbed a second pair.
"Shaving seems to be in vogue," said Wendy.
"Let me look?" asked a voice.
"Vee, you have your own pair!" Wendy said. "Junior! When did you get here?"
"Let me see?"
"No! Get your own."
Junior flickered out and popped back in with an outlandish device.
"What on earth is that?" asked Vee.
"Carl Zeiss periscope ... move over ... it's heavy."
"Where did you get it?"
"East side of the Berlin Wall," Junior said. "Move."
"You stole it!"
"Yep ... off a guard tower, move!"
"When?"
"Early September, 1962. This came from Tower Three. I expect the Guard will be shot by accident ... that's what the East Germans will claim in the books."
"That's awful, Junior."
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