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Steamboat Willy Ch. 01

By: Grey Eagle 286



I stopped dead in my tracks. I was walking along a backcountry road in Northern Central Florida. I was following a well-marked trail along what was supposed to be a very old stagecoach road. It was narrow and really just two ruts in the sandy earth. I heard a sound I would recognize anywhere. 

It was the sound of someone using an adze or a broad ax to finish the form of a wooden timber. The sound is only distinctive to one who has heard it and the noises made by other hand powered cutting tools. 

I turned and looked where it was coming from. The underbrush was too thick for me to see very far. I saw what appeared to be a narrow trail leading off in the direction I thought the noise originated from. I walked over to the trail and looked down it. I could see nothing. The noise had stopped. I started down the trail trying to make as little noise as possible. I was very curious. No one uses adzes any more. Well, a few people do, mostly purists who build timber frame barns and houses.

I heard a new noise, I recognized it too. It was a mallet or maul hitting a wood chisel. Now I was really curious. I followed the trail and could see there was some sort of clearing ahead. I pushed a branch aside and was surprised to be standing in a clearing. I heard a growl and looked to see a huge dog charging towards me. 

I froze and was relieved to hear a woman's voice scream, "Stay Bud, stay." The dog slid to a stop a few feet away. The female voice said, "Please don't move Mister, he could hurt you badly."

"I bent over and softly said, "Bud, you are a good boy, give me your paw." I held my hand out and he wagged his tail and walked to me and put his paw in my hand. I shook it and stood up. I looked up at a movement and saw a figure move out of the shade under the roof of a shed. It had a dust mask over the face and held a Winchester Model 12 shotgun in her hands. I slowly raised my hands. She wore bib overalls over what looked like a bikini top.

"I am sorry Ma'am, I didn't mean to disturb anyone. I was walking the trail back there and I heard what I thought I heard the sound an adze or a broad ax, and then a maul and a chisel."

The barrel of the shotgun dropped bit. She laughed, "Where you really to tell what they were? Not many people have ever heard of them."

"I know, I have used all of them in the past and I just had to see if I was right, what are you building?"

"I am building two boats. Would you like to see?"

"Yes, Ma'am, I sure would. I can't believe some one is building a boat these days using hand hewn timber framing."

"I have trouble believing it myself sometimes." Most people have no idea of what I am talking about if I tell them what I do for fun. Well, there they are. This one is a Replica of an Ocklawha River Steam boat from about 1850. The one over there is a replica of a St.John's River Steam Launch. Circa 1830 to 1860." 

"Wow! They are gorgeous. Look at the framing on both of them. Those are naturally bent timbers aren't they? God! They are superb. Did you do all of this yourself?"

"No actually my Daddy started both of these boats about ten years ago. He died four years ago and I vowed to finish them."

I carefully examined each of the boats. I looked at her. I still hadn't seen but a glimpse of her body or face, her long blond hair was braided and tied in a cloth tube. Her voice enchanted me. I smiled at her. "You have done very well. This has to be the frame I heard you working on. It by it's self is a work of art. Did you harvest the timber yourself?"

"Yes I did, I own 200 acres of old oak trees. The property runs right to the river. I usually just cut the branch that is shaped about right about a year in advance. I let them dry and then they are ready. I must confess that my father bent most of the limbs when he was very young. I often take a day and do the same thing for my children."

"How many kids do you have?"

"None yet, I am not ready yet, and haven't met that one very special man I am looking for."

"I think he will be a very lucky man. I hope you won't think I am being too forward but do you need any help with your projects."

"Do you know how to use these axes an other tools?"

"Yes, It has been a few years since I have had one in my hand but I don't think I have forgotten anything. My father and my uncle taught me well."

"What did they build?"

"Timber frame barns and houses."

"To be honest with you, I would love some help, I can't afford to pay much. I will confess I just don't have the time to teach anyone. Show me what you can do."

I walked over and looked at the rib she was shaping. It was neatly and carefully laid out and clearly marked. I picked up a broad ax and carefully looked at it. The edge was beveled or sharpened only on the left side. It was a left hand ax. I tested the edge with my thumb. I looked around and saw a mill file. I dressed the edge a little and it felt better. 

I stepped up on the timber and with my left foot on a plank on the left of the frame and my right foot on the timber. I took an easy swing and a 10-inch long shaving, six inches deep and a sixteenth of an inch thick fell to the floor. I repeated the swings for about five minutes. I had finished a whole side of a frame. I stopped and looked at her. She walked over and carefully looked at my work. She ran her hand along the surface. She looked up at me with her eyes wide above the mask she still wore. 

"That has to be the very best ax work I have ever seen. Even my dad wasn't that good or that fast. You split the layout line most of the way. When can you start? I have to warn you I pretty much just work mornings and weekends. I try to get in a forty-hour week but it seldom happens. I'll have to figure out how much I can afford to pay you. OK?"

"Hey, I don't expect to be paid. I am retired and am going crazy with nothing to do. I don't live far from here. My name is Richmond Murphy. Here is my card, call me any time. If I don't answer the landline try the cell phone."

Her clear blue eye's crinkled as she exclaimed, "I knew when you took that first swing you were good. You let the ax do the work with light swings. That one shaving had to be over seven feet long and was only about four or five swings. I can't believe it. Are you that good with an adze too?" 

"I do pretty good on straight runs, I am not as good on curves, we almost never did them. I can notch, groove or bevel with the best of them. If you have a short adze or a carving ax I do pretty well with them too."

"Wonderful, I have maybe forty axes of most kinds. I can get anything you need from Sweden in a week or two."

"Well let me try your tools. I usually had axes with a left or right bend to the handle. It seemed to make them just a little easier to control. Have you ever used one like that?"

"No. We have a couple like that Dad got from somewhere. They should be here somewhere. I never tried them."

I saw her rummage around at the end of a bench. "Here, is this what you want?" They were exactly like my old broad axes. I carefully examined them; they were in perfect shape except for being dull. I grinned at her. "Ma'am, I have one serious problem."

"Oh no! What is that? Maybe I can help."

"What do I call you?"

She laughed and I loved the sound of her laughter. "I'm Sally Thompson. Call me Sally, and if you don't mind I'll call you Rich."

"Fine Sally, I'll see you tomorrow morning, what time."

She reached up and pulled the mask off her face. I was stunned. She was as cute as she could be. Not beautiful, her eyes were too big, she had a little ski jump nose. Her lips were curved in a smile that was a hair too wide. She smiled broader and said, "9:00. Have a good evening, Rich."

She turned and walked away. I was aware that there were delightful things that were moving around in the seat of the baggy overalls. I shook my head and looked for the path I had come in on. I yelled, "Sally, how do I get out of here?"

Her head appeared around a corner. "Come over here. Now follow this driveway until you come to a road. Turn left and go about four miles and you will come to a hard road. Follow that road to the right, it will bring you out at the old church,"

"Got it Boss Lady, see you in the AM."

I made it home by two o'clock and went into town and checked out three or four car lots until I found what I wanted. It was an old Jeep. It looked like shit but was tight in the running gear and purred like a kitten. It had the old F–head engine. I love those old four bangers. I paid cash and gave them a tip to deliver it to my place. It would be perfect for driving to work. I didn't want to drive my new BMW on those rough dirt roads. I always loved the older Jeeps and I could explore the backwoods in relative comfort.

I was at her place the next morning at about 8:15 and saw no signs of life. I found the two old axes and took them to the old foot treadle powered grindstone. I put new edges on each of them. I found several other axes and an adze and sharpened them too. I looked up and saw Sally watching me. She handed me a cup of coffee. I accepted it and followed her to where four or five logs lay in the shed. She pointed to an old sawmill. She said, "Have you ever operated a saw mill?"

I said it had been many, many years. She showed me the steam-powered mill. It was in good shape. She explained that the steam engine powering the sawmill was the engine for the smaller boat. She smiled and told me her father rigged the saw mill to the steam engine and said it would be the best thing in the world for the old engine to be kept in use.

I laughed and said, "That goes for old men too! I have just been rusting away, putting me to use may preserve me a little."

She looked me up and down, " 'Horsehocky' you look to be in very good shape and you aren't old at all. What are you, forty?"

"Close." I was actually almost fifty.

"The engine for the bigger boat is in that shed hooked to a generator. I light the fire about once a month and let run through a load of wood."

I smiled at her, "Use it or loose it."

She smiled back. I loved to see her smile. She showed me a list of the planks we needed to finish the launch. I tacked it on a convenient post near the saw.

She climbed on the forklift and started piling logs near the saw. I built a fire and checked the water tank and watched the pressure build. 

Sally could really run that forklift and had a large pile ready. I had her put the next log on the saw carriage cradle. I engaged the hold-downs. I checked the log out. I measured its length. It was a 12 footer. I ran it through the saw then ran the carriage back. I loosened the hold- downs and took a peavey and rolled the log onto the freshly cut side. I clamped it down again and put the feed in gear and cut a second side off the log. After I ran it back I measured the small end of the log with a cutting square. It said we would get 12 2X6 planks from it. I squared it up.

I set the cutting guide to cut 2 and ¼ inch thick planks and let it run them off. Sally put another log on the carriage and we squared it up and got the same yield. Most of the logs she put on the pile were that size. Any that were not the right size were held off to the side. Sally waved good-bye to me about two o'clock. I saw her walk from her house to the carport. She looked nice, very stylish and quite lovely in a dress and heels.

I worked on until dark and was back at daylight. I didn't see Sally that day and I cut planks until dark again. The next morning I drove the Jeep to the nearest town and found a young black man who was willing to work for minimum wage. His name was Jeb and I liked him. He was very intelligent and willing to work. We made a darned good team and we cut a lot of logs into planks that day.

Sally showed up again the next morning. She looked a little tired. I had picked up Jeb again and she watched him work and told me to use him whenever I wanted, she would pay him. She was also very pleased with the amount of planking we had stacked up.

Sally climbed in the seat of the forklift and brought some more logs to us. She brought us some sandwiches and a pitcher of sweet tea for lunch. She seemed happy that afternoon and I teased her about it. She said she wasn't working that night and was going to relax and catch up on her chores. We knocked off about five and I drove Jeb home and told him I would pick him up in the morning. I went home and took a nice shower. I didn't feel up to cooking so I slipped on some clean khaki shorts and a T-shirt. I started for the door. On the spur of the moment I picked up my phone. I dialed and Sally answered. I said, "Sally, I don't feel like cooking and I hate eating alone, how about I pick you up and we go try out that new Bar-B-Que place up off 315 on 310?"

"Oh! Rich, that sounds so good. I'll do it if we go Dutch."

"I'll pick you up, what time? I'll be in that old jeep so dress accordingly."

"Give me fifteen minutes. Honk when you get here."

Fifteen minutes later I honked the Jeep horn and she ran out and jumped in. The restaurant was not crowded and we found a nice table. We had a very delightful meal. It was rustic with the food served on plastic foam disposable plates with plastic utensils and paper towels for napkins. Our waitress was one of the owners. Her husband was the cook. They were very friendly and I really like the baked beans. I told the waitress that I thought her husband had stolen my mother's receipt for baked beans. The one where you add brown sugar to the beans until you think it is just right then add one more cup of brown sugar. She giggled and said that was exactly how he made it.

We shared a rack of spare ribs and we couldn't eat it all. I looked at Sally and she had red sauce on her nose. I had her lean forward and dampened a paper towel and wiped it off. She closed her eyes while I did it and it was all I could do to keep from kissing her. I didn't let on how she affected me. I didn't want to frighten her off. I knew I was way too old for her. 

After dinner I drove her home. We sat and talked for a couple of hours and I enjoyed it very much. Finally I told her my mean old grouchy boss would yell at me if I were late in the morning. I walked to her door. She turned and looked up at me, "Am I really that mean? I don't yell do I?"

I took her sweet little face between my big rough hands and kissed her tiny nose. "Sally you are a perfect delight to work for. I hope we can do this again some time."

"Really, I wasn't too grouchy this evening."

"Well, NO. You were very sweet, but I really, really do hate to eat alone."

"What?"

She saw the twinkle in my eyes. She smiled and curled my toes, "Thank you for thinking of me, I had a nice time. I think we should do it again."

The next morning we were back at it. Sally came out in her overalls and took the list from the post and started inventorying the planks. When we finished the log we were cutting she came over and told me to shut the mill down, it was time to start planking.

A rabbet, or notch had been cut the length of the keel for the edge of the first plank to fit into. I cut a matching bevel on the edge of the plank. We coated the joint with a modern sealant and nailed the plank in place. The sealant and the use of stainless steel nails were about her only concessions to modern technology. She insisted we were trying to build an exact replica using the same methods the old builders used. She said the people who often built these boats were not true boat builders but were often just carpenters. 

The launches were more likely to be built using boat building techniques. The riverboats were usually built on site by local artisans. After the first plank was in place the rest went faster. Each plank had to be individually fitted and shaped. At the front there were extra sections of shorter planks, called stealers, inserted where the bow of the boat flared out.

In three weeks we had the last plank in place. We spent a week painting and varnishing. Sally hired a crane to lift the engine and boiler into the hull. Everything fit perfectly and was bolted in place before dark. I put the water intake in place the next morning and had the plumbing done by noon. The engine driven pump pumped the river water into a header tank. The engineer had to keep adjusting the flow to keep the tank full.

The machinery for the stern paddlewheel was lifted for us by a neighbor's backhoe. That all bolted up with only minor adjustments. 

That afternoon Jeb and I framed in the hatches and rigged the steering. The steering was not complete because this boat was to be fitted with a novel bow rudder and with two stern rudders. This invention was patented back in 1866 for use on riverboats. We hoped that the extra rudders would enable us to operate without the use of extra crew needed get around sharp turns. Stern-wheelers were very difficult to turn sharply. These boats were designed to operate in three feet of water; nothing could stick down below the hull very far, and this limited the effectiveness of the rudders. Because these were flat bottomed boats and had only two inches of keel they tended to slide to the outside of turns very easily. The original boats used two slaves in the bow and two in the stern equipped with long stout poles used to push the boat around the turns. 

Slaves being rather hard to find these days we opted for the extra rudders.

Sally and I talked about all this stuff over our weekly dinners every Friday. She was very knowledgeable about the history of these old boats. I really enjoyed being around her and I was afraid I was starting to like her too much. I loved to watch her.

We never went anywhere except local eateries and we always dressed very casually. I could tell she had a fabulous body but its was always hidden, never exposed. We teased each other unmercifully but never about sex or our personal lives. I still didn't know what she did for a living. I assumed she was a singer or dancer because she had once said she was in entertainment. 

The bow rudder proved to be a challenge. It was designed to be operated by a separate helmsman. We had to keep the crew size down so we wanted to control it from the main steering station. A control lever that had three positions, OFF, HALF, and FULL, operated it.

I made a series of push pull rods and bell cranks to operate it. When all that was completed we finished the decking and tested the steam engine and paddle wheel. The overhead canopy was installed and the smoke stack and steam whistle were installed. 

We had name boards on the canopy and I asked her what name she wanted on them. She laughed, "Do you remember the original name for Mickey Mouse?"

I thought for a moment, "Steamboat Willy?"

"Right, every body called my Dad 'Steamboat Willy' because his name was William and he loved these boats so much." I took the name boards down and took them to a sign painter and had the name done with gold leaf in beautiful old-fashioned letters. They looked just great on the boat.

Sally hired a large crane to lift the launch on a large trailer we had ready. A small bulldozer maneuvered the rig down a steep hill to Sally's dock and ramp on the river. 

It floated. We jumped around like kids and I hugged and kissed Sally. She stared at me then grinned. "Lets light the fire and go for a test run. OK?"

"Hell yes, I've checked the bilges and there are no leaks. Jeb is hereby appointed to the lofty rank of 'Deckhand'. You are the Captain and I will be the Engineer."

It took a while to get the steam pressure up. We tested the steam whistle. It was grand! A very resounding toot, toot had all of us grinning. Sally looked at me, "I'm ready when you are. I checked the pressure and shifted the dog clutch into reverse. The paddle wheel turned very slowly and we slowly backed out. Sally turned the steering wheel and we turned. She looked at me and yelled, "Ahead slow."


Steamboat Willy Ch. 01



I shifted to neutral then into forward. The paddles stopped, then turned the other way. I added a little throttle and off we went. We got to the river channel and she started to turn to the left, down stream. I yelled, "Turn right!" She did it and looked back at me

"If something breaks we can drift back this far. Let's test up river first." She smiled and we tried our first turn. We didn't make it. I had to quickly shift into reverse to prevent the boat from hitting the trees on the side of the river. When we were clear I yelled for her to engage the bow rudder. I shifted back to forward and pushed the throttle way forward. The wheel thrashed behind me and the bow turned away from the bank and we were headed up the river again.

I told Sally to put the steering in FULL. She moved the lever and eased to the right to get ready for the left turn coming up. We made that turn but with no room to spare. The next turn was not as sharp and had a bit of straight river after it. I pulled back on the throttle until we were standing still in the current. I told Sally to put the steering in OFF and I ran forward and shifted the push rod end to the next outward position on the crank. I ran back and told her to shift back to full. When she was ready I added power until we were moving along nicely. She had no trouble with the remaining turns.

We turned around in a wide spot and headed back down stream. Now it was harder to adjust the speed because we were going with the current. Sally had a near miss on the first turn. The current wanted to push us in to the side of the channel. Sally quickly learned to turn hard into the up stream side at the start of each turn, that gave her room to drift into the next turn putting her on the upstream side again. 

We saw an outboard boat coming the other way and I tooted the horn to alert them. They gave us a wide berth and we just missed them. I tooted at them as we went by. They all waved and smiled at us. I pulled the lever that sent a blast of steam through the boiler to clean the tubes and stack. A cloud of black smoke poured from the stack for a minute or two. I tooted again. Sally laughed at me. "You are just a big kid."

We had an uneventful cruise back to the dock. When the launch was all secured and the was fire out Sally hugged me. "I could never have done this without you. Let me run in the house and check my calls." She was back in just a minute. "I'll ride with you to take Jeb home. OK?"

I said, "Super, load up Jeb." I grinned." This is the second day in a row you haven't worked."

"I know, I am easing off and will quit altogether soon."

"Hey! Great!"

"Is this something new?"

"No, I have planned all along to quit about now." 

"What do you plan on doing with the boat now?"

"I want to talk to you about that. I want to sell steamboat tours of the river. What do you think?"

"Hey! Good idea. I can have Jeb trained to be your Engineer in a week or less."

She was looking at me. I looked at her. Tears were rolling from her eyes and down her cheeks. "You are quitting me?"

"Somebody has to work on the big boat."

She wiped her eyes. "Don't scare me like that."

She smiled, "Can you rig the steam whistle so I can blow it too?"

"Sure, easy."

When we were almost back to her place she said, "Would you like to come in for a drink?"

"I would love to."

We entered the mobile home. It was spotless and very nice. She asked what I would like to drink. I said I would have a light rum and water if she had it, if not what did she have. I remarked, "I have been limiting myself to one drink a day, beer or booze. I need to loose a little weight."

She looked me up and down. "Maybe one or two pounds, no more than that. You don't have much fat on you from what I can tell."

"You can't see my love handles."

"Lift your shirt and turn around."

"What?"

"You heard me."

"Yes Ma'am, there, see what I mean?"

"Bah! You don't have love handles. None at all."

"Well I think I have something there."

"I do not see it, I only see a strong healthy looking back. No fat."

I turned and smiled at her. "I showed you mine now you have to show me yours."

She laughed; she lifted her shirt and showed me her flat belly. "Are we even now?"

"That's fair. We are even. Really I am way ahead."

Sally looked at me. "I don't know what you mean by that."

"Nothing Girl, nothing at all. Your belly is very cute and my back is nothing. OK?"

I said, "Sally, is everything alright, I mean with your work and all."

"No, everything is fine. I am happy about ending it. Very happy."

"I know something is bothering you. Can you talk to me about it, perhaps I can help you."

"Honey, I'm fine. Maybe, someday we can sit down and talk."

"Sometimes it helps to talk it all out."

"Come over for breakfast in the morning and we can get another test run before I have to get ready for work."

"I thought you were through."

"Not quite yet. Four or five more nights and I'm all done." 

We sat and talked for hours. I desperately wanted to tell her how I felt about her. I was afraid I would frighten her. I said nothing. I was home by 10 o'clock and was ready for bed when my phone rang. It was Jack Sloan, my old fishing buddy I hadn't seen in months. He had been fishing in Australia for three months. We talked for a long time and he invited me to go to an exclusive Club he had joined. He was a widower and he said there were usually some single ladies there to dance with. He laughed and said that if the ladies were members they were very wealthy.

I laughed and said I would be happy to go with him if the food was good. He said it was great, the best he had had in town. He said the club had a few vacancies and that the membership was limited to 500 members. You had to be very wealthy and be sponsored by member. He said he would sponsor me.

"Will you lend me the money so I can qualify?"

"Don't give me that shit Rich, I was your Vice President for nine years. I damned well know what you are worth. I know you like to live alone in a double wide and pretend to be an average guy, I know better. I know you have yachts and airplanes and stuff stashed around. This club is very exclusive, no one is after your money."

I told him I would see if I liked it, and then decide.

I met Sally in the morning onboard 'WILLY'. I had the steam almost to the right pressure. She was happy and relaxed. I showed her the new pull cord for the whistle right over the steering station. I also showed her the new brass bell I had installed by the steering wheel. She wanted to know what the bell was for.

I told her that Navies for nearly a hundred years had used a bell to signal the engineer what the commander of a vessel wanted the engine to do. There was less chance for misunderstanding a command than with a verbal command. "We will use one bell for AHEAD, two bells for NEUTRAL, and three bells for REVERSE." 

I told Sally that Jeb was going to be the engineer on this trip, he grinned from ear to ear. She grinned at us and said, "OK, then Rich is the Captain and I will be the deck hand."

I looked back at Jeb, "Pressure up?"

"Yessuh, Skipper. She ready now."

I yanked on the bell three times; we slowly backed toward the river. I turned hard left and we swung to the left. I rang two bells, let the boat slow some then rang one bell. The boat surged ahead. When we entered the channel I turned north. It took me a turn or two to get comfortable with the steering.

After a while we made the turn that ended with us heading due east. The river was straight here, the turns had been removed. There were huge areas of tree stumps poking above the water. It was the remains of the forest that had been flooded when they dammed the river. Sally was by my side, I looked at Jeb and told him to put on more throttle. The wheel was really turning now. I looked back again and said, "All of it but be ready to yank it off if anything breaks." 

We were really going fast now, I guessed 15 to 18 miles an hour. I heard Jeb open the door to the firebox and throw in a couple more logs and slam the door shut. I looked back And Jeb pointed back behind the boat. We were throwing out a wide wake and a trail of black smoke followed us. I gave a long blast of the whistle. We all grinned.

Sally turned to me and said, "Let's go on down to the locks on the canal and see if we can arrange to have them open for us with advance notice."

"Are you planning to run this boat on the St. Johns or the Ocklawaha River?"

"This boat I would like to run on the Ocklawaha and the bigger boat on the St. Johns. There is no place on the Ocklawaha that could accommodate the big boat with dockage and loading and unloading and parking. We have to have all that. And we want to be able to run dinner cruises at night. That would be a nightmare on this river."

"God yes. That would be crazy even with lots of lights."

We were approaching the locks and I stayed well to the right and started my turn to head up against the current, The bow rudder helped get the bow around. I yelled, "More power." I felt us surge into the current. I yelled,

"Ease the power off." 

"Sally, be ready with the bow line."

"Jeb, hold us in place with the power. Good, Perfect." I rang two bells and tooted the horn with a long blast. I turned and saw Jeb getting the stern line and tossing it to Sally. I said, "Good work guys. Jeb stay onboard. No visitors aboard. Keep the fire going but you can let the pressure drop some. We shouldn't be long." I climbed on the dock and ran after Sally and caught her as she entered the building. We went to the main desk and asked if the person to ask about the locks were around. The clerk there said she would check. A few minutes later a man came out and talked to us. Sally introduced us and told him what we were interested in learning. He said that he was sure we could arrange for a one time opening and locking through of a large steamboat. The publicity would be good for both parties. He wanted to know how often we would want to lock the smaller boat through. 

Sally said, "We envision perhaps out in the morning and back in the afternoon; maybe twice a month." He said he would check and let us know.

He looked at us, "Was that train whistle I heard a bit ago from your boat?"

I answered him, "Yes it is the smaller boat, would you like to see it?"

His face lit up. "I sure would, is it at our dock?"

We walked out and he admired the boat, "Is the other boat bigger?"

"Oh! Yes, this boat is 45 feet long, the other boat is almost twice as big."

He walked the length of the boat, "It is beautiful, I love the steam engine, you burn wood?"

"Yes, nothing but wood."

He grinned and Sally and I got aboard. Jeb had thrown a log or two in the fire as we talked. I saw him release a little steam and said, "Sally, the steam pressure is up, we have to go." We shook hands. Jeb took in the stern line and Sally hurried forward and cast off the bowline. She jumped aboard as I rang one bell. The boat moved slowly into the current. I reached up and pulled on the lanyard to the steam whistle and gave a long toooot. I nodded to Jeb and he opened the throttle and the paddle wheel thrashed as we picked up speed up the river. I looked at Jeb and told him to clean the stack. He held the lever open and a loud roar of steam was heard and a belch of black soot emerged from the smoke stack. I looked back and waved to the grinning people on the dock.

Sally stood close to me and hugged my arm. She looked up at me and said, "You are quite a showman aren't you, I loved it."

"I'll bet he will be telling his wife and kids and his boss and everyone he meets about us for weeks. You need to schedule some rides and demonstrations with the press and with State and County Officials along for the rides."

"Rich, you are right. First I need to get a Coast Guard inspection for use as a Commercial Vessel. Then I have to get insurance. We need to train a crew. So damned much to do."

"Sally I'll help all I can."

"OH! Rich, I know you will, I could never have gotten this far with out you, I know that. I love this boat, don't you?"

I looked around at the boat, the wide wake, the trail of smoke, and the grin on the face of the Engineer. Yeah! I loved it all right.

I pulled her to me and kissed her on the lips. We held the kiss for a long time. She stayed pressed to my body long after we stopped kissing. She looked up at me and smiled softly, "How can I ever thank you. You made my Daddy's dream come true."

"Hey, you were half way done when I came along, I had the most fun I have had in many years."

She looked in my eyes and whispered, "I hope it doesn't end soon."

"Me too!"

We secured the 'WILLY" and I drove Jeb home after telling Sally I would see her in the morning. I dropped Jeb off and went home and relaxed for a couple of hours. I shaved and put on a featherweight Armani suit and some light Italian shoes. I hear a horn and went out to join Jack Sloan in his Bentley.

He wanted to know how I liked his car. I told him I loved it. It was elegant. We arrived at the Club. There was little to indicate it was anything special. We passed the entrance that bore a small brass sign saying it was a private club. A large man stood by the door. We went around the corner and turned into a gated driveway. Jack inserted a card in a slot and the gate opened. We moved down a ramp to a door and another key device. Jack pressed his finger on a pad and the door opened into a large parking garage. The parking spaces were very large and were numbered. I noticed a few at the other end that held long limos. We got out and I followed Jack to a door. A very large black man said, "Good evening Mr. Sloan, how are you this evening." He nodded to me and smiled and said, "Good evening Mr. Murphy."

He opened a large door for us. We were in an elevator. Jack pressed a button and the car lifted then stopped. We were in a lovely foyer and were greeted by an older man who asked if we needed a table for two. Jack said that was correct. The man nodded to another man and said "Please show Mr. Sloan to his table. 

The room was quite large. There was soft music and a dance floor. It appeared that there was a bar on the other side of the dance floor. Several people were in the bar, and most of the tables were filled.

We had a wonderful meal, every thing was excellent and the service was superb. I enjoyed it. We were sipping a brandy after dinner and talking about old time when I saw a familiar figure on the dance floor. It was Sally. She looked elegant in a cocktail dress of emerald green. She was dancing with an older gentleman. They were laughing and talking as they danced. 

Jack said, "Beautiful isn't she?"

I said, "She certainly is!"

"That is Sally, she is out of your price range. As a matter of fact she only goes with two or three older guys here. I understand she used to have more guys she 'Dated' but only goes with a couple now."

"What do you mean, 'Price Range'?"

"She is an escort, a hooker. But a super high priced one, but never act like you think she is anything but a lady, insult her and every guy in here will help throw you out the door. Every one in here loves her for some reason. She talks to all the help and most of the members. I haven't met her yet."

I couldn't take my eyes off of her. It appeared she adored her partner. She looked at him in a loving way. They look like a married couple. Older man with a young trophy wife. Then they passed close to our table and she saw me. She blanched and stopped dead in her tracks. The man she was with stopped too.

"Rich! How nice to see you. You look quite handsome tonight. This is my friend Charles Passault. Charles this is Richmond Murphy, I believe I have mentioned him."

"Yes you have Darling, many, many times, I am happy to meet you young man." I stood and introduced them to Jack. They walked away.

Jack stared at me, "Hey man, you know her? Wow!"

"Yes I know her, she is a friend."

"Do you know her professionally?"

"No, she is a friend, we just share an interest in old steamboats." We left shortly there after. I was stunned and wasn't very good company. Jack wanted to know what was wrong. I told him I wasn't feeling well.

I sat and stared at the wall most of the night. I just couldn't understand what I had learned. Sally a hooker, a whore. I couldn't believe it. My life seemed to end. I don't know how long I sat there. Then I had a terrible headache. It was daylight. My phone was ringing. I was crying. I picked up the phone, it was Jeb, and he asked if I was going to work. I told him I was sick and hung up. I looked down. There was an empty bottle of my favorite 120 proof Captain Morgan rum. I just bought the bottle the day before. Must have leaked out. I tried to walk to the bathroom to pee. I couldn't get up. I felt so damned sad I wanted to die, I couldn't remember why. Then the phone started ringing, I tried to answer it but dropped it. At least it was quiet then. I went back to sleep.

Then there was a banging noise. It just wouldn't stop. I tried to go back to sleep then someone came in the door. It was Jack. He wanted to know if I was all right. I assured him I was fine, that I had just fallen asleep when I got home the night before.

He looked at me. "Shit Rich, that was night before last. You stink. I've never seen you like this. You are still wearing the same suit. Let me help you to the shower. I heard a voice say, "Is he all right?" It was Sally. She said, "Let me help you with him. We need to get him in the shower. Oh! He stinks, I think he wet himself."

Jack said, "Yeah! More than once too. I hope that suit will clean up."

I felt my clothes being removed as Sally helped me in the shower. I felt the warm water run down my body, it felt good but I couldn't stand up, someone was holding me up while someone else washed my body. They washed my face and my hair. I just wanted to go back to sleep. I heard someone say "Don't let him lay down, keep him walking. I'll fix some coffee. I looked at the guy holding me up, he was black, Jeb! Someone had the other side, Jack. "What the hell kind of dance is this?" I asked. "Let me rest a while, please."

"No keep walking." A while later I felt better. They let me sit down if I promised to drink some coffee. Sally looked beautiful, I didn't know why but I started to softly cry. I heard her say, "I think it will be all right to put him to bed now. Jeb, please call me after a while, you too Mr. Sloan. I'll stay with him." 

"OK Miz Sally, is he going to be alright?"

"I think he just needs some sleep. Help me get him to his bed."

I felt soft gentle hands washing my face with a warm damp cloth. My eyes were washed too. I felt soft tender lips press against mine and as I fell asleep I heard a sweet voice say, "I love you Richie, I really do."

I woke up, my head pounded. I felt terrible, I tried to set up. There was an arm across my chest. I looked over next to me. Golden hair spread across the pillow and my chest. A head was on my shoulder. I turned my head and my nose was in the hair. It smelled of sweet violets and vanilla, Sally! Sally? What was Sally doing in my bed? Yeah, it was my bed. I remembered being sick. My head sure felt as if I had been rode hard and put up wet. I had to pee. I tried to move without disturbing Sally but her eyes flew open. She looked at me with a blank expression, then she smiled, "How are you feeling?"

"Terrible, don't go anywhere I'll be right back." She giggled. I got up, I was nude, I hurried to the bathroom. When I was done I peeked out the door. She was looking at me. 

"Come on, get in bed, I've seen you before when I gave you a shower last night."

"What?"

"Hush and get in bed and I'll get you warm." I got in bed and she cuddled right up to me. It felt good, I went back to sleep.




Steamboat Willy Ch. 01



I awoke with a start. I sat up and looked beside me. It must have been a wonderful dream, I was in bed alone. I heard a slight sound from the kitchen and smelled coffee. I got my terry robe and walked to the kitchen. There was Sally wearing what looked like one of my t-shirts. She looked at me and smiled, "How do you like your eggs?"

"Over light." She put a cup of coffee in my hand. "How do you feel?"

"Like a two day binge that didn't end for four days."

She laughed, "Pretty close, Rich. Did you enjoy it, I sure did."

"Enjoy what?"

"Our loving, you are a wonderful lover."

"Hunh?"

"I love the way you growl when you cum."

"What? I don't? I mean when? Damn! I don't remember a thing, can I have a 'do over'?"

"You will have to pay me again."

I looked at her and felt the tears start welling up in my eyes. She ran to me and kissed my eyes. "Rich, I'm so sorry, please don't cry. Sit down and we will talk. I really hate this but I have to get it off my chest." She looked at me, "Someone told you I am a hooker, right?"

I nodded.

"Well it is true. I have been a hooker, whore, and escort, what ever you want to call it. I am not proud of it. I have known I had to tell you about it. I knew you would be gone when I did. I kept putting it off. I didn't want you to go. I fell in love with you. NO! Don't say anything. Let me finish. Then I will get out of your hair. 

"Daddy got sick the year I graduated from high school. I couldn't believe the strong man I loved and worshiped was dieing. The medical bills ate up all the savings. He needed the medications. We were going to loose the house. A wealthy friend of dad's told me how I could make a lot of money. He introduced me to a lady who was a society gal who had gone broke. She was now a Madame. She bought me some sexy clothes and put me to work. She had a very high-class clientele. I made more in an hour than most girls make in a month. I learned to pretend I liked the old guys and they wanted me to be with them for a whole day to go to the races, plays, dancing, dinner just like a real girlfriend or date. I had about fifteen steady clients. The Madame was killed in a car wreck; I didn't have to split the money anymore. My clients kept me busy all the time. I wasn't able to save Daddy but I did make his last days pleasant. I could hire a fulltime nurse for him. He never knew what I was doing. Then I made a plan. I would save every cent I could. Then I would build the boats. I would work as an escort for ten or fifteen years while I worked on the boats; then quit and find a nice guy and get married and have kids and a good life. I kept loosing clients. Some died, some went into homes; some just didn't need me anymore. I never took on any new clients. I am down to ten now. I told them I was quitting at the end of this month.

"You see I fell in love with you. I couldn't make love to you until I was positive I was clean. I have never had anything but I had to be positive. You are the only man I have ever let kiss me on the lips; I just never wanted to do that. I haven't had intercourse with anyone in two or three years. Most of my guys can't get it up anymore anyway. They just love to be with me, I try to make each of them believe I am his young sweet girl friend. I know and am friends with most of their wives. The wives don't mind me going out with them. Then they don't have to go. The old guys love to spoil me and I let them. I knew I couldn't make love to you until you knew about my past. I was and am scared to death. I'll go now. Can we still be friends?"

I saw the tears flooding from her eyes, she turned and sobbed and ran for the door. I grabbed her. I held her tightly to me. "We can be what ever you want us to be, Sally. Hey girl, you can't go out like that with only a t- shirt on. My eggs are burning and my coffee is cold, besides you owe me."

"Owe you?"

"Yes, I have a 'do over' coming to me."

"What? Oh, right. I was just teasing, we never had sex."

"We didn't?"

"No Rich, we didn't. Do you want to?"

"More than anything in the world. I don't want just sex though. If we can't make love, if it isn't something you really want deep down inside you, if you don't want my babies, let's not go there. OK?"

"That is exactly what I want. I need you Rich; I need you deep inside me. I have wanted this for a long time. Let's go to your bed. She pulled off my t-shirt and ran for my bed. I pulled my robe off and walked into my bed room and saw her standing in front of the bed. Her head was bowed and one arm covered her breasts and the other hand covered her sex. I stopped very close to her and placed my hands on her shoulders, she slowly raised her head. Tears ran from her closed eyes.

I slowly moved my hands up over her shoulders and her neck and placed one hand on each side of her sweet face. I tipped her head up and pressed my lips gently to hers. I whispered, "Please don't cry girl, I love you and I promise I will make everything better."

A smile curved her lips and her blue eyes sparkled, "Thank you, my love, come and let me please you with all the love I have in this body that belongs to only you now and forever." She backed to the bed and fell pulling me with her. I followed her onto the bed and moved beside her. I kissed her soft lips and felt them part for me. My tongue slipped in and found hers eager to play. We kissed for a delightfully long time, I didn't want to stop, but I wanted to taste other places. 

I needed to feel her breasts with my hands; I cupped them and tweaked her erect and hard nipples. I gently pinched and twisted then. She moaned deep in her throat as she shivered. I ran my tongue around a nipple and then enclosed it with my lips and suckled on it. She was shaking and moving her head from side to side. The moaning was louder. I lifted the lower part of my body and moved it down between her legs.

The legs spread wide for me. Her mound was a smooth as a baby's bottom. I ran my tongue down and cleaned her navel out for a moment then I was drawn as if by a magnet to her pussy. Her legs were now spread wider than I thought possible. Her inner lips formed an elongated oval. Her clit was hidden in a fold of the upper end. The lips were longer towards the bottom and went around her vaginal opening.

I ran my tongue flat and pressed hard into her pussy and upward to her clit. I closed my lips around it and I watched as her eyes jumped open, She looked blank. She blinked hard and slowly closed her eyes again. She murmured my name and I fluttered the tip of my tongue rapidly across her little nub as fast as I could. 

She stiffened and pulled hard on me wanting me to cover her. I moved to the right position and rubbed my iron hard cock all over her pussy. She moaned and then mewed as I slipped all seven inches of my cock slowly into her vagina. It was wet, hot and slippery. She soon matched the rhythm as she moved to meet my thrusts.

She was screaming now, "Yes. Oh! Yes. Oh, oh, oh, unhuh, unhuh, unhuh. JUST LIKE THAT! Oh! MY! GOD!" She was vibrating now and softly mewing. I gritted my teeth and tried to last longer for her but she felt so damned good I couldn't resist the way she felt as her vagina spasmed around my cock. My muscles felt as if they had gone rigid and my sperm spurted into her love channel. The sensation in the head of my cock was so overwhelming I was unable to move. 

My eyes drifted closed and I eased down beside her body and drew her as close to me as I could. She pulled the covers up over us and snuggled up against me. Heaven. I was in heaven.



Steamboat Willy Ch. 02



I awoke and looked at the clock, it was almost noon. I was alone in bed again. I got up and but on my robe and looked for Sally. She wasn't in the bath or in the kitchen. I saw the t-shirt she had been wearing. I looked out the window; there was no vehicle in the driveway. She was gone. I felt empty. I walked toward the living room and saw a note on the dining room table.

I looked at the signature and saw it was from Sally. It read;

Dearest Rich, 

I will never be able to thank you enough for your tender warm loving. It was by far the best of my life. Tears still drop from my eyes as I think back on it. I know I have placed you in a very awkward position, please feel no obligation of any sort to see me again in light of the things I revealed to you today.

I will always cherish the time I have spent working with you and every second of the other times we spent together. I will never forget your kindness in helping me realize my dream of completing part of my father's project. I know you are the finest most honest and honorable man I have ever known in my life. My deepest regret is that I chose to live my life in a manner I know is abhorrent to you. I wish with all my heart it was otherwise. Please remember me fondly.

All My Love,

Sally I read it again. I had to think this through. What if I never saw Sally again? Then why live? What harm did Sally do to other people? Who did she steal from? Who suffered because of what she did. The answer was clear. Only Sally suffered. Her father got his medications and lived out his life in comfort without pain. She brought a reason to live and happiness to a group of wealthy old men. Hate her for all that?

No, not hardly.

Did I still love and want her?

You bet your ass I did.

Could I trust her?

With my very life? Hell yes!

What the shit was I doing here with my finger up my ass?

I jumped to my feet and ran to my room. I slipped on some shorts and a polo shirt. I grabbed my wallet, money and keys and dashed out the door. I jumped in the old Jeep and was off in a cloud of dust. I kept that gas pedal firmly on the floor until I braked hard to make the turn into her drive. 

I jumped out of the Jeep as it slid to a stop in front of her doorstep. Her car was there! I jumped out of the Jeep and screamed her name. No answer! Where was Sally? I ran to the door and tried it. Locked. OH no! I slumped on the porch. I tried to think. I ran to where I could see the dock. Where was WILLY? She had to be out in WILLY. I ran down the hill and out on the dock. Nothing! I saw a bass boat coming up the river and waved him over. He pulled into the dock and I asked he would take me out to look for WILLY. He said he had passed the sternwheeler about ten minutes before. I offered him a pair of 50-dollar bills. He grinned and yelled, "Jump in mister, We'll find them pretty quick."

The man was eager. The bass boat had a 225hp Mercury outboard on the back and he knew how to handle it. I almost lost my ball cap and my sunglasses. We got to the place where the river straightened out and headed east. The guy grinned at me and shoved further forward on the throttle. We were flying low now at about 70 miles an hour. I saw a wisp of smoke in the distance and the steamer underneath it. In a little while we started hitting the wake from WILLY and he had to slow down. He eased up behind WILLY and jumped the wake and pulled up beside her. Sally was at the helm and Jeb was the engineer. Both of them grinned when they recognized me. WILLY slowed and the bass boat pulled along side. I stood on the bow of the bass boat and jumped aboard WILLY. Sally ran to me and hugged me.

She looked into my eyes and kissed me passionately. I whispered, "Sally, don't ever leave me again, I love you." She buried her face in my chest and sobbed. Jeb yelled, "Hey! One of you guys got to stop kissin' and steer the boat." I got to the wheel in time to turn away from the riverbank. I stole a couple more quick kisses as she clung to my side. I looked down at her and she looked back up at me. I placed my lips to her ear, "Are you ready to go home. I never finished making love to you; I was only resting. I need to start all over now."

She wiped her eyes, "Your place or mine?"

"Yours is closer."

"Let's go, lover."

I looked behind us to see we were clear of traffic a turned us around. When we were headed home I turned to Jeb, "OK Engineer, FULL SPEED AHEAD!" We surged forward and we were going faster than I thought the boat would go. Spray from the paddlewheel rose in a rooster tail plume behind us. Grey smoke marked our trail. I guessed our speed at over twenty.

The boat moved smoothly through the water. This was not the speed she was built for but it was nice to know it was available if you needed it. We had to slow down when we reached the curvy part of the river but we were getting very much better at handling the boat now. The engineer was learning that a little burst of power at the right time helped turn the boat faster. Practice made the coordination lots better. Sally and I discussed the possibility of using the more advanced articulated or feathering paddle wheels. I was familiar with the type and expressed my opinion that the fixed paddle was more than adequate for our needs, our interest being more in strength, safety and reliability than in speed.

People who bought tickets with us would be interested in a leisurely sightseeing cruise and not be in a hurry. I felt that the fixed type was better for us because the whole assembly was constructed of wood instead of the all metal feathering paddles.

The river was full of submerged logs and limbs of trees. Some were a hundred years old and some were from recent storms. A log in the paddle wheel was bound to be catastrophic. Hopefully it would never happen. We agreed that the KISS (Keep it simple, Stupid.) theory was applicable in this case.

We secured WILLY and Sally and I drove Jeb home. On our way back to Sally's house we agreed that we were going to finance a car for the Chief Engineer in the near future. He had a driver's license and we had learned to trust him. He was a very sensible young man.

We sat and sipped icy cold long necked Buds. Very refreshing. I couldn't take my eye off of Sally. The more I looked the more the hunger inside me raged. I desperately needed to devour her. She seemed very solemn in contrast to her earlier joyfulness.

I asked, "Girl, you seem very serious, have I done something wrong or disappointed you in some way?"

"Oh no. I just don't know what you feel about me. I don't know where we are in our relationship, if we have one."

"Sally I am not good with words, I can only tell you how I feel. Baby, I love you, our relationship is whatever you want it to be. I have no other information about you other than what you have told me. I totally believe everything you have said. There is no way in hell you have to answer to me for anything you did before we declared our love for each other.

"Since that time I expect your complete honesty and loyalty to me. I shall respond in the same way. If you want to remain just friends I will be heart broken but I will honor and respect your decision and feel I am fortunate just to be near you. I won't lie to you. I do not think I will be able to live that way for long. I would have to leave.

"I must tell you that your statement earlier today that you wanted to have my babies thrilled me like nothing I have ever heard before. I had a great surge of love and adoration towards you accompanied by an overwhelming need to protect and nourish you that far surpasses any emotion I have felt in my entire lifetime. "As I said earlier, our relationship will be what ever you want it to be, if that includes marriage it will make me the happiest man in the world. If not, I will strive to make you happy any way you will let me."

Sally stared at me and said nothing.

I sighed, "Honey, I know I embarrassed you with that long winded explanation. I just got carried away." My eyes started misting up and I stood to walk away.

"NO! That was the most beautiful and sweet thing anyone ever said to me. You just sort of left me speechless. Everything is my decision. Everything I have wished for and dreamed of is there for me. YES, OH, Richie, Yes, I do love you, I do want your babies, I do want to marry you. Yes, I will never lie to you. I never have and never will. I know that there will be times I will hate to tell you the truth but I pledge with all my heart and soul that that is what you will get." 

My arms enclosed her and our lips met. We held each other for a long time.

Her cell phone rang. 

"Hi Tommy, how are you. Oh! No, not tonight Tommy, I am so happy I can't think straight.. ..My sweet man just asked me to marry him........ About two minutes ago. I said yes... Thank you Dear that is so sweet of you. Can I call you back in five minutes?

Right. Bye bye."

I raised my eyebrows and said, "What was that?" She smiled, "That was one of my clients, He wants to meet you and has invited us to be his guests at the club tonight. He is a sweet old man and I am very fond of him. He was crying and said he knows this will be the last time he will ever see me."

"Do you want to go?"

"I have dated him for fifteen years. He is sort of like a father to me."

I grinned at her, "An incestuous father?"

"Yes," she blushed, "That was true ten years ago but has not been for a long, long time."

"I don't know if I can handle that. Would you agree to meet my old lover?"

"I don't know, let me think. Hummmmmm! No, I don't think I could do that. But if she were forty three years older than you, I might do it."

"He is 77 or 78 years old?"

"Yes he is Dear."

"I will do whatever you want. I can't lock you up so you can't see anyone. The trust start here and now." 

"Rich, that is so sweet. I love you for it but I don't want to go if you will be uncomfortable."

"If I am uncomfortable and I say I want to leave will you leave with me?"

"In a heart beat. I don't want you to be at all embarrassed or uneasy about anything. I will watch you like a hawk, I can think of nothing that would happen that would upset you, but if I see one frown on your sweet face we are out of there."

"Can you get us in the club?"

"Sure Sweetie, I am a charter member with a life time membership. I am currently the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. I am also the head of the membership committee."

"How did that all happen?"

"Well, a dear friend bought my charter membership when there were only six other members. They were broke and sold me a lifetime membership for two thousand dollars. The monthly dues are more than that now. At first I volunteered to do almost everything. They needed me to keep every thing running. I even washed dishes one night in my evening gown when the dishwasher got sick. I know most of the members except some of the newbies like your friend Jack. Have you known him long." "Yes, he used to work for me a few years ago. He is a nice guy."

"I could tell that he thinks you are something special."

"Yeah! We get along. He wants me to join the club, but do I get to be a member automatically when we get married?"

"I don't know. Normally you must have a net worth of over a million dollars to be invited to join. I don't think it has been waived since the original ten charter members got in; did he tell you that?"

"Yes he did?"

"And you are qualified?"

"Yes."

"Oh! I thought you were well off, but not that." She giggled and said, "Then it is OK if I quit my job?"

"I insist on it."

"Let me call Tommy and tell him we will meet him at eight. You come with me and help me get dressed."

"No way!"

"You don't want to shower with me and watch me dress?"

"Certainly I do, but if I do, we will never go out tonight."

"Oh! I think you are right. Hmmmmmm! That is a tough decision but we can always come home early."

We arrived at the Club on time and Sally was treated like a queen by all the staff. We where escorted to a large table where twenty or more people were seated. Everyone stood until we were seated at the head of the table. Sally introduced me to Tommy Bernhard and his wife Elsa. They both kissed and hugged Sally. I was introduced to everyone at the table. There were several names I recognized. When we were seated Tommy picked up Sally's left hand and said, "Where is the ring."

Sally laughed, "He only asked me late this afternoon. Then I had to think it over for a while. About two seconds I think it was." Tommy looked at me, "Young man, I have a first rate Jewelry store. Be there Monday and ask for the Manager. Let Sally pick out what she wants. Wholesale." 

It was a very nice group of people; every one of them had a nice little story to tell me about how sweet and thoughtful Sally had been to them or others. After about an hour Tommy got slowly to his feet. He hit his fork against his glass and the room became silent. 

"I have an announcement to make this evening. This announcement gives me great joy and pleasure. Someone all of you know and love is about to have a huge change in her life. Our friend and Charter member of this Club, Sally Thompson has consented to become the bride of Mr. Richmond Murphy. They have not yet announced a date for the wedding. I think I speak for everyone here in wishing them the very best of everything in their life together. I couldn't be happier if it were my own daughter getting married. I have a little gift for the couple in this envelope. At my age I never put anything off because I might not make it 'til tomorrow. Thank you." He sat down. The clapping and cheering started and never slacked off until Sally rose and pulled me up beside her. She smiled up at me with tears in her eyes. She raised her hand and the room was silent. She looked out over the crowd of people that had moved close to the table. I noticed all the staff including what appeared to be the Chefs and kitchen help were there. 

Sally said, "Thank you, all of you. I can't begin to tell you how very happy I am. This will be the only wedding I will ever have. We have made no wedding plans as yet. I can tell you where the reception will be though, RIGHT HERE." She sat down and I noticed there was a pile of envelopes in front of Sally's place. Many more people stopped by the table and wished us well, each of them had a sweet word for my girl. Many dropped an envelope on the pile. About eleven o'clock I was feeling a little tired. I looked at Sally and put my best frown on my face. She looked at me and covered her mouth with her fingers and had a giggle fit. Sally tapped on her glass. Only the people at our table heard it. She said, "Dear friends thank you all so much for everything. My sweet husband to be just signaled me that he is in dire need of some comforting and pampering. That is now MY job. I can't wait to get to work. Goodnight all." She grabbed my hand and dragged me toward the door to the sound of laughter. I was getting pretty tired after the night before. Sally drove my BMW and said it was a hot rod in disguise. We stopped and got two ice cream cones and I had to wipe Sally's face and chin as she drove. I think she got the chocolate ice cream on her face on purpose. I licked some of it off, and then she got real messy. She got it all over her lips. I licked it off. She said she thought some of it had run inside her dress and over her nipple. I tried to unzip her dress to lick it up but she could wait until we got home. It was a wonder we didn't kill ourselves on the way home.

We went to my place and I felt the need to relax and unwind with a cup of coffee laced with a dollop of brandy. I sat and looked at Sally and realized that she was really gorgeous tonight. One strand of her long blond hair had escaped from her French braid. It hung in front of her face and bothered her. She would blow on it and it would flip out of the way. Then it would slowly move little by little back until it was in her face again. She would unconsciously push the recalcitrant strand of spun gold back over her ear. As she talked and moved her head it began its adorable trip back to its proper place in front of her eye. 

"Why are you smiling at me, Rich? Do I have ice cream still on my face?"

"No, girl, I just love to watch you. It make me very happy to see you content and relaxed."

"I love being here with you, I am overwhelmed with love for you."

"Sweetheart, I have to tell you I am about ready to carry you to my bed and ravish you. However I am curious about what was in those envelopes everyone gave you."

"Oh! I forgot!" She jumped up and got the plastic bag one of the waiters had brought her. She sat back beside me. She with drew an envelope and opened it; it contained a note folded around what appeared to be a check. She read the note and a tear ran down her cheek. She handed the note to me.

I opened it, it read;

My Dearest Sally,

This is a small token of the love and affection we feel for you. You brought love and happiness into a life that had become dull and without reason to continue. Both of us were rejuvenated by your youthful energy and appreciation of every aspect of life. The joy of having known you has never dimmed through the years. Thank you.

Helen and Jim Walters 

I looked at the check. I was made out for two million dollars. Sally was looking at another note and sobbing. She handed it to me. It read about the same as the first one.

She wiped her eyes and looked at me. "You know don't you that every man at our table tonight was one of my clients. It is over now. I think they wanted to show you that what I did with and for them was not just about sex. Does it say that to you?"

"Honey, I already knew that. I also noticed that you danced with each man and kissed him on his lips."

"Yes, that is true. I cried as I kissed each of them too. It was a sort of good bye even though I know you and I may see them at the Club, I will never be alone with them again, and that is how it has to be." I held her for a while as she cried. She sat up and finished opening the envelopes. The last one was from Tommy and Elsa Bernhard. The enclosed sentiment was very much the same but the check was not. It was in the sum of twenty million dollars and was signed by both of them. We added the total of all the checks together. The total was 48 million dollars.

I grinned at her. "You are a rich little bitch now. You don't need anyone now."

She pulled me to her and kissed me hard and long. "I will always need you, I have never needed money."

I stood and picked her up and carried her to our bedroom. We watched each other undress. I jumped on the bed first. She was right behind me and she rolled on top of me. She straddled my waist and leaned forward over me. She teased my lips with a perfect pink nipple. She would just let my lips close around each succulent morsel when she would pull it away and replace it with the other one. I reached up and pulled her head down until our lips met.

I kissed her lips for a long time and I could feel her warm fluids falling on my lower belly. I reached down and pulled her hips up over my face. She gently lowered her pussy on to my mouth. I held her just above my mouth and let my tongue and lips explore every speck of her. 

I rimmed her little puckered asshole and then drove my pointed tongue as deep as I could up inside of her. I fucked her tight little pucker as best I could with my tongue. I could hear her mewing and moaning and moved her so I had better access to her pussy. 

I sucked and licked on her clit until she wiggled away from me and slid down and reached between her legs and guided my cock into her vagina. She moved slowly up and down my shaft. She clinched and loosened the muscles in her vaginal tract and the feeling was exquisite. She would pause with her pussy pressed tightly to my pelvis and grind on it. 




Steamboat Willy Ch. 02



She leaned forward raising off me a little and pressing her mouth to mine. I held her at the correct place for me to be able to pound upward and in to her. I love it. Then she lifted off of me and asked me to take her doggy style. I moved behind her and my cock slipped deep inside her. She seemed to really like it when I would let the head of my cock slide all the way out of her and then plunge back in her on a different angle so that the head rubbed on a new wall of her tunnel. I felt I was nearing my climax and told Sally I was near cumming. She said, "Let me turn over, I want to watch you when you cum." When she was on her back she had her heels pushing against me deeper. She said, "Oh Baby that is so good, so wonderful, I am ready to cum too. Tell me when, so we can finish together. God! I love you so damned much. Fuck me Rich, yes, fuck me dearest. Shoot your cum up inside me. Oh! I am there nowwwwwww!" The sound of her reaching her climax sent me over the edge and I spurted again and again into her slippery pussy. I collapsed on her body and her arms held me in place. "Please don't move Dear, I am coming down slowly and love the feel of you still inside me. You feel so good, so very good. Oh how I love the way you love me. I never knew anyone could make me feel this way." I softly kissed her lips. I heard her sob. "Did I hurt you Girl?" I asked.

"No Sweetie, Your kiss was so sweet, tender and loving I had another orgasm, a biggie too! You are amazing."

"I'm not through yet." I moved down and spread her legs and plunged my face into her wet dripping pussy. I licked and sucked on her until she was totally clean. All I could reach anyway. 

She reached down and pulled me up beside her. She grinned at me, "That is another of many firsts for me tonight. That is a very nice and perfect way to end for now. You have so much to teach me, I thought I was experienced but I feel like a novice in the hands of a true master. Damn you are good."

"I have to confess that I did things with you I have never done with anyone else. I have never felt the compulsion to please someone else like I want to please you."

"I know, I feel the same way. I have never wanted to try anal before but after tonight I know we will try it soon. I'm dieing to get your sweet cock in my mouth and learn to deep throat you. I will do anything you want, I know you will never hurt me."

I sorted out the covers and pulled them up over us. 

"Honey, I am done for a while. Snuggle up and let me rest a little while."



Steamboat Willy Ch. 03



Sally and I were still sound asleep in the morning when the phone rang. I reached over and picked it up. I answered, "Hello!"

"It's me, Jeb, Mr. Murphy. Are we gonna work today?"

"Good morning Jeb. No we are not working this morning. Are you at home if I need you for something?"

"Yes Sir, I'm not plannin' on goin' anywhere."

"Good, stay home until four and we will count it as a paid day even if we don't call you, OK?"

"Yes Sir. I'll be here if ya need me."

I looked over at Sally, she was smiling at me. She jumped out of bed and ran for the bathroom. She was nude. I walked in the bathroom after her. "Hey!" She yelled, "I'm already in here." She was sitting on the toilet. 

"Sorry girl I have to pee too, real bad." I stepped in the shower and pissed down the drain. I heard her giggling. I ran some water from the shower and rinsed everything down the drain. I stepped out of the shower and stepped to the basin and brushed my teeth.

"Don't I get any privacy here at all?"

"No! I have seen and kissed and loved every inch of you. You have done the same to me. There is nothing left to hide, unless bodily functions that everyone has, embarrass you. If they do I will leave you to pee all alone and never embarrass you again."

"Rich, please don't get up set, it really doesn't bother me that much, but no one ever did that before. I'm just not used to it."

I looked at her, "Hey girl, I have to confess I have never done that to any other person. I just want no secrets at all from you. Not that I didn't have a pretty good idea that you do pee on a regular basis, but there is nothing you can't see me do, ever. If I haven't embarrassed the hell out of you; and you aren't wondering what kind of pervert you have promised to marry, I have something I didn't get to finish last night in our bed."

I ran and jumped in bed. Sally was not far behind me. "Alright pervert, show me what you mean, please." I flipped her onto her back and kissed her sweet lips. "Hush, my sweet! Lay back and relax. I am going to make love to you." I crawled down and picked up her feet I kissed each of her toes and them massaged each foot and ankle. I worked each calf between my hands kneading the muscles and then gently caressing them. I moved up to her thighs, lifting one leg and rolling the long muscles between my hands and then caressing softly all the way up them. I then lifted both legs straight in the air. I put my hands inside each knee and pressed legs wide apart. I plunged my face between her legs and she squealed with glee. I pulled my hands up under her fanny and used my thumbs to spread her labia wide open.

I licked every place I could reach with my tongue wide and flat. I gently sucked her inner lips into my mouth and pulsed then in and out between my lips. I pulled back as I sucked and stretched the thin lips as far as I could without causing discomfort. 

I used the thumb and forefinger of one hand to pull back the little hood over her clit and ran my tongue around and around it. Next I pressed my pursed lips over the small nubbin and sucked on it hard in and out while rubbing the tip with my tongue.

I inserted three fingers in her vagina. It was hot and wet with her juices. I fucked rapidly in and out as fast as I could while watching her face. Her eyes were closed and her head flipped from side to side as she mewed and moaned. She said, "YES, Unhuhhhhhhhh." The last syllable stretched out to a long purr deep in her throat.

She grabbed my head and pulled me away and up over her. "Now, I need you NOW! Fuck me NOW!" Her head fell to one side as my cock plunged inside her, Her eyes rolled back in her head and her lips mumbled something incoherent.

I was beyond the point of gentleness or tenderness. I pounded deep inside her, thrusting the full length of my rock hard cock in her grasping pussy. I heard the squishing sound of the liquid surrounding my shaft on each stroke and the slap of my pelvis and thighs hitting her little ass.

I knew she was trembling and shaking and could feel her humming vibrate into my cock. I could resist no longer and stiffened as my pulsating cock drenched the walls of her pussy with my seed. 

My arms were shaking as they held me above her body. I was weakening and moved to drop beside her and I pulled her in my arms and kissed her forehead. Her eyes fluttered open. She gently kissed my cheek. "WOW! I mean WOOOOWIE! No one ever fucked me before. They were just teasing me. Rich, I know is not right to compare lovers, But, damn man there IS no comparison. I mean, I'm not exactly a virgin and I feel I have just now found out what sex can be like."

I kissed her tenderly, "Sugar, the difference is because of a little thing called love. When the most important thing in your life at that moment is to please your lover everything changes, you reap the rewards as much as they do."

"But I didn't get a chance to even try and please you. I just moved with you a little, I was so enchanted by what you were doing to me I couldn't move much at all. I just loved every thing you did."

"I'm not through yet."

"What?"

"Yeah! I didn't clean you up yet."

"Oh My God!"

We had a late breakfast and went into town. We stopped at Bernhard's Jewelry Store and looked at ring sets. I insisted she pick out two sets, one set for everyday and one good set that showed how much I valued her. We were looking at rings when Tommy Bernhard walked out. He greeted us enthusiastically and told the salesman to go get the case on the top shelf of the safe. He got out a ring gauge and found that Sally took a size 7 ring. 

He took the case from the salesperson and put it in front of Sally. He started to open it and I put my hand on top of his and stopped him. "Are these your very best sets?"

"Why yes they are. Our top merchandise."

"Are the prices visible in the case?" 

"No they are not."

"Fine, I do not want price influencing her choice."

He looked at me and grinned, "Well done young man."

He opened the case and Sally took a deep breath. "They are all so beautiful."

"Sweetheart, which one do you like best. Which one catches your eye."?

"This one!" I picked up the engagement ring and slipped it on her finger. It was too large. Tommy assured us it could be sized.

He looked at me and shook his head slightly. I raised my eyebrows. He took Sally's hand, "Here try this one on. What do you think?"

"Oh, it is gorgeous, it seems smaller but prettier."

Tommy said, "Sally I think the other one was too massive for your small hand, you would tire of wearing it very quickly. I believe this ring with just the one main stone of superb quality is of far better value and will fit you better. It has one other advantage; it comes with a second identical set only in the new artificial man made diamonds. The second set is for every day wear and costs a fraction of the cost of the real diamond. It is almost impossible to tell the difference even by a trained gemologist. We mark our rings clearly inside showing it is artificial. Still one this size is not cheap the sitting alone being several thousand dollars but we have a setting that uses a less expensive quality of gold which is actually stronger and wears better. Both the real diamond and the more inexpensive set are included in this price. He wrote a figure on a piece of paper and gave it to me. Sally was holding the two rings side by side. She looked at me, "I can't tell any difference." She held them out so I could see.

"Do you like them, my love? Will they make you happy?"

"Oh yes. I love them."

Tommy smiled at me. "A wise choice." He looked at Sally, "Which one do you want him to put on your finger to wear home?"

"The phony one of course, Tommy."

I smiled and told Tommy I wanted the original engraved inside with the inscription 'To Sally from Rich 2004'." 

"It will be ready tomorrow and by the way I showed you the retail price, this is what you will pay."

I gave him a debit card. He smiled, "You have this much in a debit account?"

"Yes but I had to activate the account with a private code and counter sign earlier this morning and you will be required to give an answer to a question when the bank calls you. The answer is the inscription I gave you to put inside the ring."

"Very good. I like that, I'll have to get an account like that."

"Well, you will get you money almost instantly." 

"Have you deposited your gifts as yet Sally?"

"Not yet Tommy, We are going to the bank to open several accounts when we leave here."

"Splendid, Rich, here is the ring and the wedding band if you want to put it on her finger now." 

I took the box and opened it and removed the engagement ring, "Sally will you marry me?"

"Yes I will." I slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her. 

We went to the bank and deposited the checks. We opened several accounts. Two were trusts that we needed legal guidance in setting them up. We opened a joint account with some of my money and some of hers. It carried a substantial balance but not excessive. It was fed by other accounts and trusts that were in turn fed by investments.

Sally was assured of a very substantial income for the remainder of her life.

From the bank we went to City Hall and after taking care of a bunch of paper work we were married by a Justice of the Peace. We would have a more formal wedding with a reception later, or maybe just the reception.

That afternoon Sally sat near me as I made a couple of long distance calls. 

My father answered on the first ring, I said, "Hi! Pop, how are you doing today? Good, do you remember me telling you about Sally? Lots of times, right, that is the girl. Well, I married her this afternoon. Thanks Dad. We want to see you soon. How is uncle Fred? He is, great.

Listen I have a proposition for the two of you. Would the two of you come down and help with the building of a large stern-wheel steamboat for us? .. Ninety feet long by twenty-five feet wide. All the frames are to be hand hewn naturally bent oak. There are only about twenty frames left to do. Can you still swing a broad ax or an adze? Not since last week. Well you guys aren't too rusty then. Right, I'll call you tomorrow with the details. Goodbye."

I called another number that one of my people had found for me. I talked with a Mr. Don Mitchell. He is a very well known nautical historian and has specialized in river steamboats and has worked on restoring a number of them. I asked him if he was familiar with the Ocklawaha Riverboats. He said he knew them well but the acknowledged expert on them was a Mr. William Thompson of Orange Springs Florida. I explained that Mr. Thompson had died sometime ago and that we, his daughter and I, were finishing two boats he had started. Would he be interested in supervising the completion of one of them?

I told him I would send a round trip ticket for he and any assistant he might need. I said we could negotiate his fee for finishing the job and would pay him $1000.00 dollars for his time in looking at the job. He agreed and was very interested in seeing what we had. I E-mailed him some pictures we had taken of WILLY and the frame of the big boat. After he saw what we had done he was very excited. He said he would call within a day or two.

The next call was to Jeb. I asked him if he could get a ride to my house. He said he could. When he arrived I handed him the keys to my old Jeep, I told him he could buy it for just what I had in it if he wanted it. I would finance it for him. He was very happy; he had long admired my old Jeep. I told him to take it and be at work in the morning. We would take care of the paperwork later.

Sally looked at me with a sweet little smile on her face.

"What?" I said.

"Lover, you have made a lot of people happy this day."

"I have?"

"Yes dear, you gave me a wonderful present this morning, and probably the best one of the day, with your loving. You made me happy again with my beautiful rings, Tommy made a nice sale, Jeb got a Jeep, the bankers got tons of money for their banks, the steamboat guy gets a free trip to Florida and a chance to make some money later. You made me the happiest girl in the world when we were married. Oh yes, my baby has been a busy guy spreading joy all over the place." 

"I'm not finished yet Hun. I have another little idea you might like in bed tonight."

"Oh! I just know I will LOVE it. Yes I do."

"Good, watching basketball on TV in bed is one of my favorites."

"What? I'll bet you don't even turn it on."

"No bet. You would win that one easy."

"I'll give you two points every time you put your round thing in my basket."

"Hummm, sounds like my kinda game. Do you think I can score tonight?"

"I have no doubt about that."

"You know just kidding about it has me excited again. Let's go to bed. I'll lock the doors and shut off the ringers on the phones."

"I'll be waiting for you my love."

I was only minute or two behind her. She was flat on her back grinning when I got there. She was stark naked and her arms and legs were spread wide. I walked slowly around the bed looking at the magnificent feast that lay before me. Her breasts stood proud and only sagged a little with their weight. Her nipples were dark pink with the influx of blood making them stand erect like pointing fingers begging to be tasted.

Her legs were spread displaying the delicious throbbing clit that also stood erect and ready for my attentions. The labia were fully engorged and held the inner lips slightly open where the fleshy hood over her clit was open enough to reveal the luscious morsel awaiting my tongue. Her vagina was also slightly open and shined with the moisture seeping from inside. Her eyes followed as I slowly surveyed the gifts she offered. I had to be the luckiest man alive. I eased onto the bed beside her and tenderly pressed my lips to hers. Every fiber in my body was screaming, "ravish her", "take her", and "fuck her." But I knew in my heart that she did not want that at this moment. Her eyes were fill with a softer desire and that was what I had to give her as long as I could. I knew that eventually my lust would overpower the gentle side of me. I recalled what seemed to have set her off earlier and I stopped at the foot of the bed and crawled up between her legs. They opened wider for me. I softly licked every place within the confines of the oval of her inner lips. It was not a large area and I moved very slowly from place to place being sure to not miss any spot.

I licked as far inside her hole as I could reach and then pressed my face harder into her pussy holding my breath while I reached in another inch with my tongue. She was having trouble staying still. She didn't want me to stop and her natural reaction was to roll her hips up harder against my mouth and my tongue. She was trembling now and I moved to my next target.

I dropped my mouth a little lower and rimmed her little pink ass hole. I smelled the muskiness of it and tried to penetrate her rectum with my pointed tongue. I spread her cheeks farther and watched as it tightened up a little. I lubricated my index finger in her pussy juices and pressed it against her rosebud. It tightened again. I tapped gently with the pad of my fingertip and saw thee sphincter relax a little bit more. 

I got more juices and tried again. This time, after the tapping, I pressed a little harder and my finger slipped in to the first knuckle. I licked all around my finger imbedded I her ass. When it was very juicy I pressed in again another inch. I slowly moved my finger in and out.

I twisted it a little against the strong pressure of her anal sphincter muscle. Meanwhile I was lavishing her pussy with long flat-tongued licks ending with a gentle suck on her clit. I held my intruding finger completely still for several moments then slowly removed it all the way out. I lifted my body and moved up beside her, licking as I went. 

I kissed her gently on the lips and said, "Sally, I love you. Tell me how you want me to love you."

"Darling man, I have loved every single thing you have done to me. I would like to explore you some too. I want to do some of the things you did to me. I need you to tell me what pleases you the most." She rolled up over me and kissed my lips. Then started licking her way down my chest to my nipples. My nipples are not very sensitive but she brought them to life with the way she licked, sucked, and nibbled gently on them with her teeth. She pinched, twisted and squeezed the other nipple. Then she traded nipples. No one had ever played with my nipples that much, I liked it. She worked her way down over my belly button and cleaned it out with her tongue. She lifted her head and looked at me, "I think he would look cute with a piercing, maybe a gold ring. Perhaps a little gold tag saying I belong to 'Mistress Sally'." She giggled, "Would you like that my slave?"

"I am yours to command Mistress Sally."

"Really? Would you really do that for me?"

"I think you know I would."

"Don't worry, I hate piercings on anyone. I have never seen one that I thought improved on what God gave us. An ugly girl or guy is just as ugly or uglier with ten gold rings as they were with none. So, no my Darling, no matter how you beg you can't have one." 

"Aw shucks, I was hoping for a 'Prince Albert'."

"Oh God No! What if I got a bar bell in my tongue and we got hung up." I had to chuckle at the thought of that. She moved down and I felt her breath on my cock. Her lips pressed softly against the crown. Her lips opened and slipped over the head. She held just the head in her mouth with the tip of her tongue tracing all over it. Then she slipped further down until I felt it hit the back of her throat. I felt her throat swallow and he moved further in, She swallowed twice more then pulled off of him gasping for air. 

I held her head, "Sweet girl, please don't make yourself uncomfortable to please me. I know that has to hurt some."

"Just a little. I don't mind if it pleases you."

"No Dear, I don't need that to know you love me. I liked what you were doing just before better. You scare me when you take too much." She smiled and slurped my cock back in her mouth. She stopped and licked all over him making him very slippery with her saliva. Her hands stroked the length of him and swirled around the head and back down the shaft as her mouth kept him slippery. "Hmmmm, I like that!" I whispered, "That is heavenly."

She said, "I want you to cum in my mouth, I need to taste you."

"You don't have far to go girl, I'm almost there." She increased the speed of her strokes. She was licking the crown, and then sucking on it. I felt it coming, "Oh God! I'mmmm cummming nowwww!"

I felt her lips close tightly around him. I didn't feel a drop escape. 

She crawled up beside me and kissed me passing my cum into my mouth. "Do you want to snowball, I've heard about it but never tried it." I looked at her and shrugged my shoulders; I didn't know what she had in mind.

She said, "Pass the cum through your teeth, back and forth a couple of times then pass it to me, I'll do the same and pass it back. We do that until it get too big for our mouths then we split it and both swallow." We did it and I loved watching her and the fun she seemed to get from it. It was sort of arousing if you thought about what we were doing. I was amazed at how quickly it grew. When I felt I couldn't hold any more I bit it in half as I passed half to Sally. She opened her mouth and showed hers to me. I did the same and we both swallowed.

I told her I had liked that and asked if she did. "OH yes, I loved having your cum I my mouth, I really like how it tastes and I love knowing it is your precious gift to me."

"You can't eat all of it if we are going t make a baby."

"I want you babies more than anything in the world, but not quite yet. I want to go places and do things with you first. I'm 33 and we still have plenty of time. But right now my tummy is empty, I'm hungry."




Steamboat Willy Ch. 03



"Me too, Dear, do you want to go out to the Bar-B-Que place?"

"How about 'The Yearling', we haven't been there in a while?" 

"Great, let's get dressed and go."

I slipped on some shorts and a Golf shirt. I looked at Sally; she was almost ready in a very cute yellow sundress. It had puffy little sleeves that extended across her breasts, dipping in the center to show some cleavage. It fit like a second skin below her breasts to her waist then flared out a short flippy skirt that stopped about six inches above her knee. She wore ankle-wrap sandals with a stiletto heel. Her makeup was done to perfection and her long blond hair was in a flirty ponytail.

I held her at arms length and leaned forward and kissed the tip of her nose. I whispered, "When you get out of High School little girl I am going to marry you." She smiled and pressed herself to my body, she pulled my face down and kissed me. "You had better wait for me, I graduate in a couple of hours"

We had a drink in the bar before dinner. Several guys asked her to dance; she smiled, thanked them, and told them that the only man she danced with was her husband. She would cling tightly to my arm, and then lift enough to kiss my cheek. A nice song I liked came on and I asked her to dance. We had never danced to Country before so I stuck to pretty much standard stuff. She was very good. I figured she could handle almost any thing I tried. We did a few twirls that showed off her long legs and yellow panties and we did a few low dips she enjoyed. Then an old favorite of mine played. I asked, "Do you Jitterbug?"

She grinned. "I love it, just tell me what you want to try." We danced for a while then I smiled and said, "Between the legs?" She nodded. I twirled her then held both her hands and threw her back between my legs and then whipped her back out into another twirl. I swung her on a low dip where her legs went up and over my back. Then I gave her a low toss in the air. She never missed a step and the lovely smile only left her face if she were laughing with me.

I noticed the hostess watching us and when the music stopped we found she had our dinner table ready. The meal was excellent but I was so enchanted by the lovely creature with me it might have been alfalfa. She excused herself to go to the Ladies Room. I saw a large man grab her arm and pull her towards him. I was on my feet in a second. I heard her say, "I am married now, let me go." I moved beside him and jabbed my elbow into his ribs. I thought I heard some ribs crack. He staggered back and I followed him. I was ready to drop him if necessary but he still didn't know what had happened. I stepped closer to him and softly said in a hard voice. "Apologies to my wife immediately or suffer a whole lot more pain. You WILL treat her with the respect due a lady or the consequences will be quite severe. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

"Yes, yes I'll tell her I am sorry I bothered her."

"Do it now!"

"Ah! Ma'am I am terribly sorry if I disturbed or embarrassed you in any way, please forgive me." 

Sally nodded at him and he turned and exited the old restaurant. I paid the bill and the cashier apologized for the way she was treated. I asked if the man was a regular customer. She said she had never seen him before. I smiled and told her we had a nice meal and would be back. We went out and saw the man pointing us out to several deputies. Two deputies walked over and said the man wanted me arrested on assault charges. I asked the officers to look at my wife's arm where he had grabbed her. You could see the bruises his fingers had caused. I then told them he had been abusive and insulting to her in a public place. "Next time I will not be so gentle with him. If he presses charges I will counter sue for assault and verbal abuse. Do you know Charlie Proust?" 

"The Sheriff?"

"Yes, tell him old Rich Murphy said hello. You might do it before this goes any further."

One of the deputies pulled out his radio microphone and walked off talking. He hurried back to us in a few minutes and consulted with his partner. They looked at us. One of them went and talked to the man. The other turned to me.

"We have nothing more for you Mr. Murphy, Sir. You may go now. I suspect you will hear no more from that guy. Good evening Ma'am, Sir."

We passed an Emergency Medical unit a few miles down the road headed for The Yearling.

"So, you and the Sheriff are big buddies.

How do you know him?" 

"His little brother was in my unit and I got lucky and saved his life. He and his brother and I own a fishing camp in the Keys."

"You are full of surprises, I know you must have guessed that guy at "The Yearling" knew me from before." 

"Was he a client?"

"NO! He did some work for Tommy and he made so many nasty remarks Tommy fired him."

We were both tired so we sat and cuddled and kissed. Sally lifted her head and kissed me, "Rich, I love this snuggling and kissing you almost as much as the sex. I feel so loved and so content. I love every thing about you."

"It is really wonderful for me too." 

We went out the next morning and bought a new Jeep Liberty. It is a small SUV and nimble enough to go through the woods in real comfort. I still liked the Old CJ's better, but my real favorite was the old MB-38 Military model from the early fifties.

We met Jeb at the boat and went for a cruise recording every thing historical we knew about the river on a cassette recorder. Both Sally and Jeb knew more than I did. What we got on tape would be the foundation for a narrative description of the river and it's history. It could be easily revised and added to. Decided it would not be a continuous narrative. There would be blank spots where the crew could add their own information or point out wildlife, gators, eagles and such.

The Riverboat expert Don Mitchell arrived the next day and was amazed with what had been accomplished by Sally. Sally showed him the completed ribs for the big boat. She delighted in showing Don the ribs she had cut. Then she showed him some others I had done. He was surprised and asked, "Who did these, I don't think there is anyone alive who can do such fine work with a broad ax. Each of these is a work of art. I almost hate to see them buried in the hull of a boat."

"We can get more anytime we want them."

"The artisan who did these is still alive?"

Sally giggled, "He is standing right beside you."

He looked at me, "YOU?"

"Yep. I'm guilty. But if you decide to accept our offer you will have two craftsmen who are better than I am with a broad ax or an adze."

"I don't believe it. I have never seen better ax work. I can recognize the ax work of most of the modern boat builders and a lot of the old timers. I have never seen better than this workmanship."

"Well sir, my father and his brother are the best I have seen. I am not positive they can still turn out top quality work, they are both in their mid sixties, but they are still doing it. We are not trained boat builders. We are Timber Framers. Houses and barn builders."

"That is wonderful, I can tell you what needs to be done and let you do it your way. I have never seen but one or two frames like these made of one piece of wood with a natural ninety-degree bend in them. All oak? Really and grown on the property. Wow!"

I noticed Mitchell was eyeing Sally appreciatively. I was a little miffed when he took her hand and placed it on his arm and walked away toward the dock to see WILLY. Jeb was already aboard and had a head of steam up. Mitchell helped Sally aboard I cast the lines off and jumped aboard and took the helm.

I rung three bells, Tooted the whistle and WILLY moved slowly backwards. I turned the wheel and WILLY backed down river. I rang two bells then one and WILLY surged ahead. I turned up river and we were off. Mitchell was very impressed with the way the boat handled the turns. He was not familiar with the bow rudder and Sally explained it to him and the reason we used it.

We turned around and headed back toward the dock. Mitchell was sitting very close to Sally and talking very quietly with her. She looked back at me and smiled sweetly. I stuck my tongue out at her. When we were along side the dock Mitchell helped Sally to the dock and holding her elbow walked off with her.

I finished helping Jeb secure WILLY and then he and I walked up to Sally's house. Mitchell and Sally were seated at the dinner table talking. She was explaining that Murphy Construction of Miami was handling all of the financial aspects of the project. He was very impressed and said he was familiar with the company and remarked that we were fortunate to have the support of such a prestigious firm. I motioned for Jeb to sit at the table and I got a couple of soft drinks out and offered them to Sally and Mitchell. I got a couple for Jeb and myself. Mitchell looked a bit peeved at Jeb and I sitting right there with them. Mitchell looked a Sally, "Miss Thompson, Sally, If you will not be needing these men any longer today might they go home?"

Sally smiled sweetly at him, "Why certainly, Jeb you run along now. Rich will be driving me home." She smiled at me. "I am Mrs. Murphy, Mr. Mitchell. Rich is my husband, Mr. Richmond Murphy."

Mitchell stared at me for a moment. "Of course, the owner of Murphy Construction. Please forgive me Mr. Murphy, I thought you were a workman, an artisan."

"It is an easy mistake to make when I am wearing these raggy old shorts and a dirty T-shirt. Mrs. Murphy will probably take me home and hose me off before she lets me in the door." 

Sally grinned at me, "I won't do that darling, but I will get in the shower with you and scrub you clean." She looked at Mitchell, "He does scrub up really well and I adore doing it for him. And oh, by the way, you will stay here in this house if it is all right with you. It is almost twenty miles to the nearest motel. The master bedroom is clean and ready for you. The refrigerator and the cupboards are fully stocked if you want to fix your self something. If not, Rich and I would be delighted to take you to dinner with us about seven. It will be casual tonight."

"I think I will take a rain-check on your dinner offer. I am still tired from the flight I think I'll fix myself something and relax and go to bed early."

"The freezer is full of TV dinners and things. We will see you in the morning."

Sally took my arm and we walked to the Jeep. I handed her in and got in myself. We went to our house and showered and changed and went to dinner.

In the morning Sally and I oversaw the placement of four rented travel trailers just to the side of her house. They were for the use of my father and uncle and other workers we were hiring to help get the big boat completed. It was going to be a much bigger project than WILLY.

I asked Sally if she had decided on a name for the bigger boat. She smiled, "Daddy picked the name for this one, he called her the OCKLAWAHA PRINCESS. He said she was named for me." Tears ran from her eyes. I held her close and she looked at me and said, "Daddy would have loved you. You are his kind of man, mine too."

I smiled, "Girl, I need to go to Miami tomorrow to spend a couple of days. I have some business matters I must attend to there. We need to have everything arranged here so things will progress smoothly while we are gone."

"I'm going with you?"

"I was planning on it unless you would rather stay here. I had a number of things there I wanted to show you. I promise you will enjoy it."

"Wonderful, I can choose to stay here and work all day then crawl into a lonely bed every night, or go to Miami with my lover and be loved and pampered all the time. How long do I get to think about it?"

"About as long as it takes this coin to hit the ground."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Yes what?"

"Yes, Sir, Master! I WILL go where you go. You will never leave me behind; you are far, far too precious to be out of my sight for that long. When you get horny I want to always be within reach." She pressed her lips to mine, "Are you horny now?"

"I will be in a second or two if you keep kissing me."

The next morning I parked the BMW 760 Li next to the sleek Grumman Gulfstream V And I guided Sally aboard. The stewardess showed us to our seats saying, "Good Morning Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, we will be departing shortly.

We have all our clearances and will start to taxi as soon as your baggage is aboard. I will bring coffee now if you desire." We both nodded and she hurried off and returned quickly with our coffee. She had cream and non-dairy creamer and sugar and various sweeteners. We felt the aircraft gently begin to roll. The Stew checked our seat belts and said she would take our breakfast orders when we were safely airborne. 

We stopped for a moment then the engines roared and we started to roll. The nose tilted up and we heard the wheels thump into their wheel wells. The sun shined brightly in the left side of the plane as we leveled out at cruising altitude. The girl rushed back and adjusted the window shades and offered various omelets, pancakes, and other breakfast foods. Sally requested Western Omelet and OJ. I went with that too. Sally looked around the interior, "This is pretty nice for a Timber Framer. You must have a night job too."

I smiled, "I have to moonlight a little now and then as a rich girl's husband."

"You do a splendid job of it too, I might add."

It seemed we had just finished our breakfasts when the Captain announced we were descending for our landing at Miami International Airport. When the plane stopped moving we were shown to two waiting Cadillac Sedans. We were just seated when the vehicle started to move. We drove for about three minutes and we were placed aboard a waiting Helicopter. 

A Stewardess got us strapped in and we rose in the air and the nose dropped as we flew off. In about ten minutes we landed at a heliport behind a huge building. A fancy electric car met us and the driver greeted us, "Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, Good Morning, would you like to freshen up a little or would you prefer to go directly to your office?" I looked at Sally and she smiled happily at me and I opted for the office. We stopped at an unmarked door and entered a hall. The driver opened another door and we were in a small office. Sally looked around, "This is nice."

I answered her unspoken question. "Yes it is a bit small, this my Personal Assistant's Secretary's Office."

Sally laughed, "Does she have a Secretary too?" I opened the door and we were in a larger office, a man rushed to us and I introduced him to my new wife. He was not some one I knew. I asked, "Were is Mrs. Baker?"

"Oh sir, she is in your office making sure all the papers for you are in order." I headed for a large door and escorted Sally through it. The office was huge. An older lady stood and walked toward me and hugged and kissed me. Then she said, "And this lovely lady has to be Mrs. Murphy, You are right Richie, you said she was beautiful." I said, "Marge, This is my child bride, Sally.

Sally this old bag is my dearest friend and my secretary for twenty some years. Call her Marge." 

Marge held Sally in front of her, she looked Sally up and down, Damn boy ya sure done good for your self, I can't say the same about her."

"Marge you are fired, you old bitch."

"What is that? Number 387 or 388?" She hugged Sally, "Sweetheart, you married the best man in the whole world. No one else even comes close."

I laughed, "Sally this wonderful woman has guided me through the cutthroat business of construction ever since I first started. I have retired her and fired her and just can't get her to leave. She will have a retirement income in six figures now. I have loved her dearly for years, but I'm too old for her.

She likes real young guys, after twenty she says they slow way down."

Sally sat in a large leather chair, She giggled, "I refuse to comment in any way...

this is a death trap. It is a lose, lose deal."

I looked at Marge, "I will just assume without embarrassing you by asking, that the apartment is ready and waiting. I have several meetings with my banker I need to get out of the way, While I am doing that I want Marge to show you around and especially take you to our advertising and promotions department.

"Sally I want you to give them your ideas on putting the boats to use. I have been toying with the idea of a promotional trip around Florida by Steam Paddle Wheeler. Do it in like six or eight stages and sell tickets for each stage. Just a thought Honey, drop it or run with it. We will be here for three more days. You can work on it some each day."

Sally said, "I have to change first, I can't walk around with Marge looking so elegant and me in jeans."

I grinned at my wife, "Come on, the apartment is right through this door or that door, you guess which door." She walked to one door and opened it. 

I said "Wrong, that is the conference room. She looked at me; "You could hold basketball games in there." She walked to the other door and tried that one.

She stepped into a huge foyer. It opened into a large formal living room. Sally wandered in the living room looking all around.

"Come this way Sweetie, here is the Master Suite." She followed me into a smaller informal family room. The bedroom was off to one side. There were his and hers dressing areas and walk–in closets. Her things were hanging in her closet and in the drawers.

Marge said, "Your cosmetics are in your dressing area. Are you going to change too Rich?"

"No, I'll change later."

Marge said, "Miss Sally take your time. Rich and I will be just outside here in the family room." Marge and I sat and talked about things I needed to get done in the next few days. I told her to schedule in plenty of sightseeing and shopping for Sally and I.

"You want to go shopping with her?"

"Yes, I will go shopping with her and after this afternoon Sally will attend all meetings I go to and accompany me at all times. She needs to get an idea of what is going on here. I know you think I am besotted with her, and to a certain extent I admit that I am. But I think you will be surprised by this girl."

A couple minutes later Sally walked out wearing a Navy blue pinstriped pants suite with a white fitted blouse and stiletto heels. She looked damned good with her hair drawn back in a severe bun. Sharp, classy and powerful was the image she projected. Marge looked at her and grinned at me, "She'll do." She grinned at Sally, "Honey, I'd give my left titty if I could look half as good as you do. I thought you looked like 'eye candy' at first but I suspect I was wrong."

"No Marge, I try to be eye candy for Rich when ever I can. He loves it. I love for him to love it."

"Smart girl. I will tell you this right in front of the big guy. He will never cheat on you no matter what. That is just who he is. He doesn't cheat or lie. Ever. Now let's go let all the men drool over you. You will snap a few necks today. I have a VIP name tag for you in my office."

I said, "Hey! You guys meet me back here for lunch, OK?"

They walked off, Sally wiggled her ass as she walked away and she looked back and winked at me. I had a good couple of meetings and arranged a few things for Sally. She now owned forty percent of Murphy Construction. I owned another forty percent. Marge and some other long time employees owned the other twenty percent.

Sally and Marge found me in the family room sitting at the dinner table sipping on lemonade, Sally wanted one too, and Marge wanted a Bud Light. A door opened and a waiter entered and placed the requested drinks in front of the ladies. He handed a menu to each of us. Marge asked for a Caesar Salad, Sally wanted one too, I asked for a grouper sandwich." When the waiter left Sally asked, "Is the kitchen in there. How did they know what we wanted to drink?"




Steamboat Willy Ch. 03



Marge answered, "When the Boss had this apartment built he had made up his mind he would not live here full time, so he didn't include a kitchen. Actually the kitchen for the company dinning room is through that door. It is staffed twenty four seven, so he just orders what he wants. He has a button he presses and the staff hears each order.

They even have a bed tray sitting proudly in its original wrapper in a place of honor. He would never dream of using it. The food is amazing. If you order a Burger King Whopper it will be exact, without the wrappings. Any fast food can be duplicated. I thought I had them fooled a month or so ago, I ordered a Quiznos Prime Rib Sandwich. Ten minutes later I had a duplicate. It was good too!"

After lunch Sally and Marge sat with the financial people and me. Our CEO, Charlie Farrigut explained the changes in ownership I had made. Sally stared at me, "Rich, you didn't have to do that."

"Yes, Dear, I did have to do that. Sally, I think for a matter of clarification I should point out to these good people, that a week ago Sally and I deposited checks made out to her, in the amount of forty-eight million dollars in several joint accounts. This girl gave me virtually every thing she had, I can do no less. I still have many other things she now owns jointly with me. I also know some of you think this sweet innocent lady doesn't have a clue about construction. Let me ask you a question. If I placed an oak log twenty feet long, bark still on, in front of you and handed you a broad ax and an adze, how many of you could cut a perfectly square timber from it in half a day.

"What? No one? Well I have seen this delicate little girl do it. If she wants something done, it will get done. If you bet against her you will loose." I grinned, "I don't know if it is appropriate for me to say this, but she is also as wild as hell in bed."

Laughter ensued. Hell, when the big boss makes a joke, everybody laughs. I looked at my wife and smiled, "It's true."

She smiled back, "Yes, but who makes me wild?"

"Guys, I think that is enough for now, I have to take Sally shopping, and I think we have a personal shopper waiting for us."

Sally, Marge and I returned to my office. Marge walked out to her office and returned wit a very attractive woman about 40 years old. She was introduced as Jennett Parton, a personal shopper. She smiled and asked Sally to please stand up. She looked Sally up and down. She grinned, "This is going to be easy and fun. Please sit down, Mrs. Murphy, I need to get all your sizes for everything." Sally answered all her questions.

Ms. Parton said, "I understand I am to buy clothes to stock an apartment here in this complex and to stock a yacht docked on Biscayne Bay too."

I nodded, "Yes that is correct. My intention is that you take us shopping this afternoon to get an idea of my wife's tastes in clothes and the styles she prefers. These wardrobes are to be from the skin out, everything necessary so that she can walk aboard the boat, for instance, and have everything she needs there for her. I mean everything from cosmetics to bikinis. We will require that you update when you think you see something she will love. A must have deal, you know what I mean?"

"Yes Sir, I do understand. I am going to have to spend more time with her than just this afternoon in order to really learn what she wants."

I grinned at both of them, "I think you guys better get to be buddies, Sally will decide in a day or so if she thinks you two will click the way you need to for this to work. Why don't you two go in the apartment and get acquainted, show Ms. Parton what you brought with you. That should give her some ideas about what you like."

Sally smiled at the other woman, "Just all me Sally and let's go look at my clothes, I need to change to go shopping anyway. I like to wear a dress shopping, I find it easier to try things on that way.' They walked into the apartment. 

I signed some routine papers for Marge and she told me the head of the Ad and Promotions section was there. He introduced himself, he was John Norton. He came in and he sat down and I told him of the two riverboats. I told him that the prime consideration was to find a useful way they could be put to work. They were too important to my wife to have them just sit. They were utilitarian objects and moving through the water on some sort of mission was their natural habitat.

I told him that we had talked about sightseeing trips as the crew pointed out points and objects of interest were one idea. We had envisioned sort of a historical trip along the way. I invited him to come and see the boats and the river. He said he would and that he had several ideas. I told him that he would be meeting with my wife and to get her input and ideas on the boats.

I smiled at him and said, "Miss Sally is my new bride, it goes without saying that her ideas far outweigh yours and mine. Her late father started building these boats about twenty years ago. She worked along with him until he died. She earned the money to pay for the help she needed and continued to work on them until a week ago.

She is a determined young lady. She feels these boats are a tribute to the memory of her father, a nationally recognized expert on this type of riverboat. He drew the very precise and complete plans for these boats that are being used to construct them. Please her and you will please me, the bottom line economics are no longer a factor.

He smiled, "As a kid during summer vacations I worked on the sightseeing boats on the Erie Canal in New York. Later my folks moved to Florida and while in College I worked summers on the sightseeing tour boats in Fort Lauderdale."

"Please tell my wife that. I think you can help us. If things work out maybe you can get a job on one of her boats, we are looking for good people."

Sally and Jennett walked in and I introduced them. I apologized and said I had promised to go shopping with them. We went out the private entrance and the car and driver were waiting for us. It was the same Cadillac sedan. Jennette directed the driver to the Mall she wanted to start in. She said she thought Sally was a perfect size seven, but that women's clothes varied from brand to brand. 

Sally tried on a bunch of outfits; I thought they all looked great on her. Jennette laughed and said I loved Sally so much my opinion was biased. They always asked my opinion. She tried on about thirty outfits. I vetoed two of them, was so-so about four or five of them. The rest I liked. We moved to a lingerie shop and to a shoe store.

My preferences were duly noted.

Jennette said she was going to bring out some outfits for my wife to try on in the morning. She asked if ten would be all right. We said that would be fine. They excitedly gabbed all the way back. I think I dozed off once or twice. Sally kissed me awake when we were back at the apartment. Jennette left and we relaxed with a drink. I smiled at my girl; "Shall we test them for dinner? What would you like, Filet Mignon. Prime Rib, Chateaubriand, Surf and Turf, or Pizza?"

She said, "I want to be fair, let's order from their menu. We can't expect them to whip up a good meal in less time than it takes to cook it."

We Sat at the table and I pressed the magic button and asked for tonight's menu. A smiling waiter rushed in with it. We looked it over. It was a surprisingly complete menu. Sally ordered a Surf and Turf and wanted her Filet medium, I wanted a Prime Rib, medium rare. We were both pleased with our meal. We complimented the chef. I told him we would be eating in the next night and to surprise us with something special. He was delighted. We told him we would be looking forward to tomorrow evening. I walked around the table and picked up my wife and carried her to the family room. We sat and sipped a coffee discussing the day; she said she felt good about Jennette, that their ideas were not far apart on clothes. I looked at her and said, "Sally, I think you would look good in an old feed sack with holes cut out for the neck and arms. I love my little girl; I love the present not the packaging. I am ready to unwrap you now. I started for the bedroom, she was right behind me. We quickly undressed. She pushed me on the bed. She climbed on top of me and kissed my lips. She pulled my lower lip into her mouth and sucked on it. She let my lip go and giggled, "I was going to suck it really long and hard but I didn't think the hickey would look nice. I'll do one on the head of your cock. OK?"

Hell no! All the girls will want to know who did it."

"WHAT?"

"Forgettaboutit!" 

Too late, she had hold of my cock and squirmed down to slip her warm mouth over the top of it. One hand gently stroked my shaft while the other hand tenderly played with my balls. It felt so damned good. I heard a noise and realized I was slowly growling deep in my throat. It was almost a hum, only lower. I put my hands down to her face and let the tips of my fingers feel her lips as they gripped my cock. Wow! That was a very erotic feeling, I loved it. She turned her head quickly and licked the fingers of one hand sucking several into her mouth. The little hand playing with my testis let them go and joined the first one in gripping the shaft of my cock. She moved one then the other out of the way as she slathered saliva over it with her mouth. Both hands now gripped it and stroked it, twisting around it in alternate directions. Her mouth sucked the helmet and she let saliva run down from her mouth. My hips involuntarily pushed up against her hands faster and faster. Her hands stroked faster and faster until I yelled and exploded in her mouth. She moved up and passed the cum into my mouth. She pulled away before I could pass it back. She lay on my chest and put a finger into my mouth. She was watching me carefully. She wiggled her finger around and rubbed the sperm onto the inside of my cheeks, over my tongue, and on the roof of my mouth. She opened my lips with her fingers and gently pulled my mouth open. She dipped two fingers in the cum and rubbed them across her lips. She licked her lips and smiled softly at me. "You are such a sexy man. You do anything I ask. I love you with all my heart. You have played with your cum long enough, I want it now." She pressed her lips to mine and I passed the cum into her mouth. She smiled as if she were really savoring the taste of it and swallowed. She reached down and pulled the covers over us then turned out the light. She snuggled up close to me, a leg over mine. "I bet all the girls went crazy over this bachelor pad."

"No, you have actually christened it for me tonight but it has lost the 'bachelor' title."

"Really?"

"Yep. You are my first female in this place."

"How about your yacht?"

"No, you will not be the first there, Sorry. But it has been redecorated and the master suite enlarged since then. I haven't even seen it yet."

"Did you do all that just for me?"

"Not really, I never really liked the master cabin. A lady owned it before me and it was too feminine for me."

"Oh! Was she pretty?"

"The lady? I don't know, I never met her."

"No, your girlfriend."

"Honey, I will answer all the questions you might have about my prior sex life if you will answer all of mine about yours."

"I'll have to think about that. Just that little talking about it was getting me really jealous. We better just let sleeping dogs lie. That is a totally new feeling for me. I have never in my whole life been jealous of another girl. Especially of one I never met and is long gone. She is gone isn't she?"

"Long, long gone never to return."

"Were there many girls?"

"Not really, more than you I guess, but none even lasted a year, none got a ring and you are my first and last wife. OK?"

"Now I feel better and I can sleep. You just don't know how much I love you.



Steamboat Willy Ch. 04



We walked aboard the yacht about ten that morning, Jennette had met us early and Sally had tried on several outfits and liked them all. There were casual, sports, business, and eveningwear to try on. Sally was stunning in every one of them. Both Sally and Jennette were grinning after the fifth outfit. Jennette said, "Sally you are perfect. You are a perfect size seven. Every thing I brought this morning was in size seven and every thing fits perfectly."

When we were board the Captain showed us around the ship. Everything was spotless and in perfect operating condition.

Sally and Jennette were happy with the master stateroom. There was plenty of closet space for her things, lots of drawer space and a spacious dressing table.

Sally wanted to know how close he could get to Orange Springs. He said he knew he could get to Palatka and down the St. Johns River but he would have to check on how far. I told him I thought the controlling depth to the south entry of Lake George was eight feet.

"Well with the Hamilton Jet Drives we are equipped with that is about what we draw."

"Well skipper, check it out, we may want you in the St. Johns for a while."

"Yes Sir I will have that information in less than ten minutes."

"Fine. Tell me what you find out before we leave. See about birthing arrangements too." I found Sally and Jennette in the salon partaking of a nice buffet brunch set up there. I find it is seldom too early for me to enjoy a good Shrimp Cocktail. I do not care for a fancy sauce; I prefer just Catsup and Horseradish. The girls loved the vessel and were ready to cast off and go on a cruise. There was a retractable Heliport over the stern and a Chopper was due to pick us up at 11:30. We heard the deafening noise of him landing and walked toward the stern. The captain met us to escort us to the Helicopter. He told me I was right about the river but that he hadn't found any place that could dock a vessel our size.

The whirlybird had us back at the Murphy Building well before noon. I sent Sally off to meet with the promotions experts and we said so long to Jennette. She was to go head with the plan and stock the two places with clothes for Sally. Later Sally sat beside me in a meeting with our plans department. They tried to chart a course for the company through what they thought would take place in the next five, ten, fifteen and twenty years.

Sally asked some questions that showed she completely understood the presentation and thought it's predictions were a little too rosy. I mentioned that she thought that a worse case scenario might also be enlightening. The head of the department reached into his brief case and withdrew a few papers He grinned at Sally. "Ma'am I have one here if you would like to hear it."

Sally looked at me and I nodded slightly. She said, "Certainly, Sir, please continue." He gave a five-minute presentation. I thought it was rather well done. Sally gazed at him and said, "That was excellent but as far as I am concerned it asks more questions than it answers. I believe I would like to hear and see a comparison of the two extremes and a median estimate."

The plans people put their heads together; them one of them scurried about in several stacks of material and found three slides he had projected on the huge TV monitor on one side of the room. One slide portrayed the best case, another, the worst case was projected over it. The middle ground case was shown beside the others.

Sally said, "Very good Gentlemen. Might I summarize all this by saying that in the foreseeable future the net profits of this company will be some where between very good and stupendous." 

"Yes Ma'am, You are exactly correct in your analysis."

Sally leaned over and kissed my cheek, "I love you," she whispered. The plans team thanked us and left. Sally and I decided to go into the apartment, only a few steps away and have lunch before the next meeting. Marge walked in after a few minutes and held out her hands toward Sally. Marge pulled my wife to her and kissed and hugged her. She grinned, "Sally I hear everything that goes on in this company, I have my spies everywhere. The word is out, "If you have a meeting with the gorgeous new Mrs. Murphy you better have all your ducks in a row or she will call you on it." That is the best compliment I have ever heard a female receive in twenty years. You have them eating out of your hands and knocking themselves out to please you." Marge looked at me, "Boss you were right about this girl. She surprised me. She is definitely not just a pretty face, she is damned smart and people savvy too."

Sally beamed, "Thank you Marge, I hope I can count on you to help me though. I need you to brief me on what to look for and to expect at these meetings. It is difficult going in there cold. I feel a lot of skepticism from the people giving the presentation. I felt it even more so today. I think I need to change into a business suit again to have a quicker rapport with them. If I dress like this in a dress they think I am just fluff and try and gloss everything over."

Marge said, "I picked up on that too. The comments on your appearance yesterday were very positive in that everyone who commented on your looks said you looked 'smart' and 'sharp'. Today I just heard 'lovely' and 'pretty' and 'cute'. Another thing, you don't have to check with Rich before you do anything, just let it fly, he isn't going to say no to you anyway."

Sally jumped up, "I'll go change. I'll be right back." She was back in ten minutes just as our lunch was served. She was a vision of business beauty in an all gray outfit; a gray fitted suit, knee length skirt, with a gray blouse. She had on gray shoes and stockings. I looked at Marge, "I'll bet her lingerie is gray too."

"I won't take that bet. Sally you look just great. I love that suit." Marge remarked.

"Me too!" Was all I could think of to say?

Sally grinned and lifted her skirt to show a gray garter belt and panties.

We went back in the conference room. There was a group from the advertising and promotions division waiting for us. John Norton who I had already spoken with about the boat project was leading the group.

I introduced Sally and myself and afterward I said, "Please direct your ideas, questions and what ever else may be pertinent, to Mrs. Murphy. This is her pet project. However, I do have one thing I would like to say then I will let you guys have the floor. I think this is super chance to have the Company sponsor a historical project. I understand there is a movie that is planned that has a large part to be played by both types of boats. It is called 'The Cry of the Red Hawk' and is about the 2nd Seminole Indian War taking place in North Central Florida in the 1830's. We should have the second boat completed before shooting starts. If that doesn't give anyone some ideas I need to fire all of you. OK folks this is my beautiful wife Sally. She is the boss on this project."

Sally stood and glanced around. "First let me say I am glad to meet all of you. First I must say that my husband and I are newly weds. It is my sworn duty to keep a smile on his face. Everything else comes second. Because of that duty I am going to trust you guys to do all the work. I feel it is my job at this point in the project to listen to your ideas and try and select the best path to take. We may pursue more than one idea. Now I want to hear your ideas." I listened for a while, and then I stood and kissed her on the cheek. I went into my office and pressed a button so I could hear what went on in the meeting and started to read a letter when I heard Sally say, "There went my biggest handicap to getting anything done. I just tend to think about him all the time. If I look a little dreamy eyed sometimes that is my problem. I miss him already. Now, where were we?"

I listened to the rest of the meeting, I was proud of my little wife. She made the staff work toward her goals. She was fair and listened to all the different ideas. Finally I heard her say, "Yesterday on our way here my husband mentioned an idea he had for a promotion, he suggested that the large boat be set up to do a cruise around Florida. Many short legs each featuring a visit to a historical site along the route. This was just off the top of his head with no research or feasibility check. I would appreciate it if you could pursue that as one possibility. Thank you everyone, I am available by cell phone during working hours. If I answer and I am breathing heavily and moaning a lot, please call back in an hour. Have a nice evening."

She walked into the office I met her half way to my desk. I picked her up and carried her to my desk a set her on top of it. I pressed a button locking all the doors. I buzzed Marge and asked her to hold all my calls for an hour. I pulled my chair in front of Sally. I kissed her passionately then I lay her on her back. I lifted her legs straight in the air. I pulled her panties up her legs. I left one leg pointing straight up and pulled her hips toward me as I sat in my chair. I spread her labia with my hands and buried my face in her sweet pussy. She was damp and warm. I licked her into a fast orgasm. She was eager to help me all the way. I lapped and sucked every bit of her I could find. It was very erotic with my beautiful wife fully clothed except for her pussy. I knew I was dribbling inside my trousers. Sally was trembling and moaning. I slipped two fingers in her vagina and pumped them in and out of her. Her hips began humping up against my plunging fingers. I felt her reach another climax and pulled my fingers out and substituted my tongue. I slurped up her juices as fast as they seeped out my face was completely wet. My mouth, eyes and nose were full of her sweet moisture. I loved it. 

She pushed my face away and stood and said, "In the bed, right now!" She ran for the bedroom dropping clothes as she ran. I was close behind her. I was also leaving a trail of clothes. She jumped on the bed still wearing her garter belt, stockings and shoes. 

I managed to get my shoes off but still had on my socks as I jumped between her legs and plunged my cock into her hot slippery wet pussy. "YES!" She screamed as she felt my shaft slide in her pussy and go right to the hilt. She was pulling hard on my hips on the in stroke and whimpering and softly mewing. I tried to slow down because I knew I was going to cum very soon but she was having none of that. Her hands and her heels pressed me forward at the speed she needed. She shook violently and screamed with joy and ecstasy. I ejaculated at nearly the same time and collapsed on her body, I tried to move off her but she wanted me where I was. She was crying softly. "Sally, what's wrong girl, did I hurt you?"

"Oh no, it was heavenly. You didn't hurt me at all, you never have."

"Why are you crying, girl?"

"I want to go home, I want to be in our little double- wide mobile home with just the two of us. I want to care for you, do your laundry, cook for you and be a real wife to you and not be on a schedule. I'm homesick I guess."

"Me too."

"Now I know why you live out in the country way away from all this. This just seems to close in around you like a jail doesn't it?"

"Sweetheart that is exactly how I feel. We'll go home in the morning. They can bring the important stuff to us, or We can come down one or two days a month. OK?"

"Yes, that sounds wonderful."

" I'll have them move the yacht to Lake George and the helicopter and zip us there and back. With all the communications gear aboard her we can meet with them just like we were there in Miami."

"Let's do it."

"You know, we can bring a chopper up to your place and land it in your front yard. Then it would only be fifteen minutes to Ocala, forty-five to Miami and another fifteen to the office, say an hour and a half door to door. We could be home by four or five. I like it. And another thing girl, we haven't had a proper honeymoon yet. Right?"

"You are right dear. Jennette can have all my stuff aboard before the yacht leaves to come up here."

"Yeah, that boat really moves, it will cruise at near forty miles an hour if the weather is nice and the seas are smooth. Or they can run at twenty miles an hour and leave in the afternoon and be here the next morning before noon. They won't want to run the St. Johns at night."

Then I looked at Sally, "This is all bullshit, and we are just bringing the jail up here. I see no reason for us to be this involved with the business. If the CEO we have now can't handle it we will get one who can. We can fly down for a day or two on a quarterly basis. We could even sell the damned business. We have plenty of money, what we need is time to be ourselves together."

"Oh! Honey, I love it, that is perfect. We are both happier here or over in the yard swinging a broad ax or an adze. I enjoyed playing at being a businesswoman and I could possibly pull it off, but why? Other than finishing the boats and then putting them to work what real goals do I have? Just one, and I really believe I can do that better from here. That goal is to keep my darling husband happy and content."

We got settled in and drove over to Sally's place. My father and his brother were there with Don Mitchell. I introduced my wife to my father, Mike Murphy and to my uncle, Ike Murphy. Dad held Sally at arms length then looked at me, "She looks like a real keeper Rich. Miss Sally welcome to our family. I hear you can use an axe and an adze, I find that hard to believe, but my boy don't ever lie. So it must be true."

Sally smiled at him, "I can use those tools but I am not in the same class as Rich, he is awesome and I have to admit I love him with all my heart."

I took my dad and uncle and showed them some of Sally's father's work. They were impressed and remarked that the work on the curves and the notching and beveling were excellent. Then I showed them a frame that was half completed and asked if the person who had done that was any good with axes. Uncle Ike said, "Damn boy, you know this work is fine craftsmanship, did you do this?"

"No Uncle Ike, Sally did that one. This one over here is one of mine. They walked over and looked at one of mine. They looked at me. My Dad said, "Sally, when I looked at yours I thought it was some of the best fancy cutting I have ever seen. You can work with me any time. Then I saw what my boy did. It is the best I have ever seen. I have seen work done on a band saw that is not near as smooth as what you and this little gal of yours do. I'm damned proud of both of you."

Sally didn't resist being pulled into my arms and gently kissed. "I'm proud of my wife too."

Dad looked at me, "Son, I think we can handle most of what you do here except one thing, how in the hell do you cut those inside curves with a broad ax?"

"We really don't; we use several special curved carving axes that are made like an adze with the blade at ninety degrees to the handle. The handle is short and each one has a different curve. They are often used like a chisel with a maul. They have to be really sharp." 

Don Mitchell asked, "How do you take a bent log like one in this pile and cut the faces on both sides?" Sally said she would answer that, "We have the things over here that look like big sand boxes. The log is placed on the sand and leveled with more sand. Planks are placed around it from side to side These blocks hold up the central planks. Now we have something to stand on. We level to the walls of the sand box. Watch Rich rough this one out."

I climbed on the planks and let the adze do the work. In about four minutes one side was flat. Sally brought a plywood layout pattern and traced around it with a yellow crayon. I took my ax and let the axe do all the work on the outside. Then I cut out the inside using a gouge like adze. You had to smooth the cut with diagonal cuts. Then several of us flipped the rib over and we leveled it with the sand so that where we wanted the finished thickness was even with the top of the sand box. There was only a quarter of the wood to remove as there was with the first side. I finished it in not much time. 

I wiped my brow and jumped down and looked for Sally. I didn't see her and left every one looking at my work. I walked around the corner of the shed and saw Sally riding off in my old Jeep with Jeb. What the hell was going on? Dad yelled for me and I went to him and explained how we selected which log we would use for the next frame. I told everyone I would see them later and walked out to our Jeep Liberty.

I saw a note on the steering wheel. It was from Sally. She said she had an emergency call from one of her old clients and would call me at home later. She said Jeb was taking her to the doublewide. I hurried home. There was no one there.

I fixed myself a Rum and water and sat down to think things over. This was weird. Here I sat alone while my wife ran off to see an old client/lover." I just had to trust her. She had never given me any reason to doubt anything she ever said. If she were up to something she wouldn't tell me where she was going. But then she really didn't tell me anything. No name, no place, no nothing. I had no choice I had to keep my mind open and blank until she got home. I fixed another drink and thought about what I could make for dinner to surprise her.

I looked in the freezer and found a package of two Rock Cornish Game Hens. I unwrapped them and dropped them in a bowl of warm water. I put a couple of baking potatoes in the oven. I found a package of frozen broccoli flowerets and decided to make a mock Hollandaise sauce to go with them. I got out a class bowl and put an inch and a half thick slice of Velveeta in the bowl. Next I put a heaping tablespoon of mayo in accompanied by a tablespoon of sour cream. A teaspoon of regular mustard and a squeeze of lemon finished it off. I zapped it in the microwave for a minute then whipped it together, it would be heated again prior to serving. I would wait until Sally got home. Where was she?

Finding a plastic container for the broccoli I set it aside to be cooked later. I took the hens from the water and split them through the backbone and flattened them out. Rubbing butter and lemon and fresh ground pepper with a sprinkle of kosher salt had them ready for the broiler. I sat and watched the evening news until the timer on the oven dinged. I took the potatoes out and slipped them in the freezer to cool down a bit. I had expected Sally by now, where was she?

I fixed another drink and waited a while for the potatoes. When they were cool enough to handle I cut them in half lengthwise. I scooped out the skins and put the insides in a bowl and mashed them with a fork. Sour cream and chopped chives were added and mixed in. I took a plastic baggie and cut one bottom corner off and slipped a piping tip out through the hole and piped the filling into the skins finishing with some nice swirls on top and garnished with more chopped chives.

I watched some more news and fixed another drink, I put a nice lace tablecloth on the table and set two places with good silver. I found some candles and put them on the table in silver holders. Where was Sally?

I had another drink and put the birds in under the broiler. I put the broccoli in the microwave. When it was done it went in a nice serving bowl and went on the table. The hens checked out ok, they weren't ready yet. I finished my drink and checked the hens again; they were looking good, browning up nicely. I took them out and put the potatoes in. They browned on top and heated though. I put one on each plate with a hen. The sauce was reheated and put in a nice small server. I sat down and waited. I wasn't worried about the dinner getting cold it could be reheated. Another drink seemed appropriate. Where the hell was Sally?




Steamboat Willy Ch. 04



I woke up the next morning and told myself I knew better than to drink that much. It was stupid on my part what if Sally needed me; I couldn't have gone to her. I went to the phone and checked the caller ID. There ware a number of calls. Some were from a Hospital. I called there immediately to see if they had a patient named Murphy; they didn't. I went to the bedroom and showered and shaved. I didn't look as bad as I felt. I was worried to death about Sally by now. I sat down at the phone and got out the phone book to find the Sheriff's Department non-emergency number. I heard a car in the drive. I rushed to the door. It was Sally. She looked terrible. She looked as if she had been crying for a long time and had slept in her clothes. I held out my arms and she walked right in them and hugged and kissed me. "Oh Rich, it was terrible." She started crying and I held her and petted her head.

I asked if she were all right. She nodded, "I'm fine now. Oh my god, look at that! Oh Rich! Look what you did for me and now it is all ruined. It is so beautiful. She started weeping. She cried uncontrollably. I kissed her and got her calmed down and I asked her if she would like some coffee or something to eat. She said she would like some coffee, she said she hadn't slept all night.

She told me that an old client's wife had a stroke, a massive one. She had died this morning about five. The children didn't get there in time and she hadn't wanted to leave him because he was so distraught and confused. He refused to believe his wife was dead. She tried to call in the afternoon on her cell phone. Then she was told she couldn't use it in ICU because it could interfere with the electronic gear. 

She went to the lobby several times later and got no answer. She cried and said she had missed me terribly. When we finished the coffee I took her to the bedroom and undressed her and helped her get a quick shower and put a gown on her and tucked her in bed. She didn't want me to leave her. I told her I would be right back. I fixed myself a couple of pieces of raisin toast with a smear of peanut butter and a glass of OJ. I called Sally's place and told them we would be over later. 

I knew Sally and I had unresolved feelings to talk out. I was very jealous even though I felt she was only trying to help a friend whose wife was dying. There was a long time when I didn't know what was going on. Hey, that was a problem in my brain. She had nothing to do with it.

It was three in the afternoon before she woke up. I fixed her some coffee, and some breakfast. She asked if I had gone to the boatyard at all that day. I said, "No, I stayed here with you. I didn't want you to wake up all lone. I know you are up set about your friend passing away and I hoped you would want my company."

She looked at me, "Of course I want your company. Why would you say that?"

"You didn't want or need me yesterday."

She looked me for a long time, and then tears ran down her cheeks. "I was wrong, I just didn't think. It will never happen again. I really could have used your comfort and help yesterday. Please forgive me, I guess I am not really used to being married yet. I am not used to having someone I can always call on no matter what. I have never had you before, my sweet love. I made a mistake, I did need you but it was too late when I realized it."

"Don't cry Hun, I guess I got a little jealous and hurt that you went off with out me."

"Yes and I spoiled your beautiful dinner you fixed too."

"Listen girl, how do you feel now? I really need to run over and check on things at the boat. It is starting to take shape now. They should be ready to start planking the hull now."

"I want to go with you, I feel pretty good now. Maybe we can have an early dinner somewhere and go to bed early and get in a long day tomorrow."

I smiled at her, "Sounds good to me. Let's get dressed an hit the road."

They did just fine without us; we needed to get a pair of cranes in to turn the hull over onto the ways or wooden tracks the boat would slide on down the hill to the water. A cradle was almost ready to receive her.

Within a few days the hull was proudly on its cradle and the boiler and the engine were ready to be lifted in by a crane. It took several weeks to get the machinery all in place and bolted down. The galley stove, sinks and the large icebox were in place too. Lots of plumbing had to be sorted out as others were working on the framing the super structure and installing the main deck floors.

When completed the steamer would have twenty-four staterooms with two bunks each plus bunks for the crew of eighteen. It was akin to building a small hotel. The structure grew day by day until the framework was completed. The smoke stack and all the plumbing associated with the steam engine were in place. The paddle wheel was fitted and ready. The paddlewheel on this boat, unlike WILLY, was completely enclosed within the hull. There were even doors that closed off the stern of the vessel hiding the wheel. Twin rudders sat behind the hull in the discharge from the paddle. The steering system was quite long; the steering wheel was in the pilothouse mounted on the front of the upper deck. 

The vessel was an exact copy of the steamboat OKAHUMKEE built in 1873 in Palatka, Florida especially for the Ocklawaha River trade. Sally's father had picked the name OCKLAWAHA PRINCESS for this boat in his daughter's honor.

Sally and I were enjoying life much more now that we were back in the doublewide mobile home by ourselves. We attended the funeral for her friend's wife together and Sally loved being able to hold my arm for support during the whole ceremony. All of her old clients attended and were happy to see Sally again. We promised to go to the club more often.

The yacht was anchored in upper Lake George. We spent several weekends aboard her and enjoyed her very much. We made two trips to Miami and were home each night. We bought a slightly smaller Doublewide and put it behind our house. We outfitted it with all the communications gear so we could use it as an office. One of the secretaries from Miami moved up and lived in half the trailer. She was able to bring her disabled husband with her. He loved being able to get outdoors and enjoy nature. It worked out well for everyone.

One afternoon Sally stayed at the boatyard while I went back to the office to sit in on a meeting being held in the company headquarters in Miami. It worked very well; I was able to take part as if I were there. When we were finished I returned to the boatyard.

I didn't see Sally anywhere and went looking for her. She wasn't anywhere to be found and I went to her house and yelled for her and got no answer. I looked down toward the dock and thought I saw some movement aboard WILLY. I walked down the hill and out on the dock. My eye caught the movement again and I couldn't believe my eyes. I saw Jeb's naked black rump rising and falling between a pair of white legs. I saw blond hair flipping from side to side and I saw Sally's yellow dress draped over the back of the bench they were fucking on. I started to run towards them and my foot caught on something and I felt myself falling and every thing went black. 

I heard people whispering and couldn't make out what they were saying. I tried to open my eyes and couldn't see anything; something was over my eyes. I tried to sit up and something was holding me down. I struggled and fought to sit up. Then it hit me. I had to get to Sally. I screamed her name and tried with all my strength to get up. I got one arm free and tried to pull what was covering my face off. Something pushed me back down. I felt soft lips on mine. I heard Sally say, "No Baby, be still, I'm here with you, and please don't move Sweetie. Please, you'll hurt yourself. I could tell she was crying and I could feel her tears on my jaw.

What the hell was wrong with me? "Sally is that you?"

"Yes Dear. How do you feel?"

"My face hurts, what happened, where am I?"

"You fell on the dock and hurt your face then fell in the water. Jeb saved your life. He jumped in and pulled you up on the ramp. You are in the hospital."

"Sally are you all right? I was trying to get to you to save you, then I saw you didn't need saving."

"What are you talking about?"

"I saw you and Jeb fucking and you weren't struggling, you had your arms around his neck."

"WHAT?"

"I don't want to say it again. It hurts too much."

"Honey, I don't know what you saw but I was with your father and Uncle Eli when you fell. We were out in the oak grove looking at some logs I cut a year ago but haven't hauled out to the sawmill yet."

"I saw his black butt going up and down between your white legs and I saw your blond hair. OH! I saw your yellow dress too. The one your wore to the "Yearling" that time."

"Oh! You poor thing, I gave that dress to Helga Olson a month ago. She's Jeb's girlfriend. I'll bet that is who you saw."

"What? Oh thank god! I didn't know what to think."

I heard her sniffle, "You don't trust meeee!"

"Hey girl, I was running to save you, I thought you were being raped. Then I saw your arms around his neck. The dress carefully folded. Then I couldn't believe what I was seeing. That is the last I remember. Sally, please kiss me again. I love you." 

"Baby, I am afraid to kiss you again, it looks as if you ran face first into a dock piling. You have split lips with a couple of stitches in them. Your nose is broken; you have a bunch of loose teeth. Your eyebrows are split and bruised. Everything is so swollen you can't open your eyes. Your chest and left arm are scraped and bruised. You have a gash in your right thigh and foot. Try not to laugh too much!"

"Thanks, you are all heart. Well, you won't have me bothering you for sex all the time now. You will be catching up on your sleep."

I heard her crying and I reached out trying to find her. I heard the crying fade way and sleep claimed me again. When I awoke again I heard someone say," Mr. Murphy, can you hear me."

"Yes, I hear you."

"Good, I am Dr. Rumalla, Rakesh Rumalla. I am going to remove the bandages over your face to inspect the swelling and to check your eyesight. OK?"

"Certainly Dr. Rumalla, Do what you need to do."

I felt some tugging and pulling at my face. Suddenly bright light shown in my eyes, I had to shut them. If I squinted I was all right, I could see fine. I told him that and he said to take my time and see it I could see if I could get then all the way open.

He hurt me some when he removed the bandages over my nose. "Does it hurt at all Mr. Murphy."?

"I am just fine Doctor, just a little discomfort on the nose and the cheeks, other than that I feel fine. That is normal isn't it?

"Yes some pain is to be expected. I will give you a prescription for a pain killer and you should be able to go home to day."

"Great." I tried to reach Sally on my cell phone. No luck. No answer at the house and none on her cell phone. I called the club and was informed she was there put couldn't be disturbed at that time. I was discharged and tried to reach Sally again and got the same answer. I got a cab to the club and was told she was in her office but was not to be disturbed. 

I walked to the office and tried the door. It was locked. I knocked and after a few moments the door was unlocked and opened. It was Tommy; he looked shocked to see me. I asked if Sally were there, he said she was sleeping and said he would see if she were awake and turned and went to another door. I turned and left. I walked several blocks and saw a small park and sat for a few moments. What the hell was going on? I couldn't think straight. I got my cell phone out and called the Yacht. I told them to send the helicopter for me. I would meet it at the airport private aviation terminal. I called a cab and gave them my location. An hour later I was aboard the yacht and in bed getting some much needed rest.

I woke up and felt an arm around my chest and a warm body pressed against my back. I knew it was Sally and smiled before I went back to sleep. I awakened again later and was in bed alone. I sat up and looked around. I was on the yacht. Had Sally been a dream? I got up and found a robe and went out to the salon. 

There she was. Sally saw me and rushed to me. She started crying and hugged me. "Damn it why are you so difficult to hold down? I love you Rich but you drive me nuts. You are supposed to be at the house and you are on the dock getting hurt, you are supposed to be in the hospital and you are at the club, you are at the club and I run out to find you had disappeared again. I called everywhere and finally found you here. I am setting here watching your door so you don't get away again. I love you Baby, but if you don't want to be with me just say so and I'll leave."

I looked at her. "Sally I'm sorry, please believe me, I love you with all my heart, sometimes I have trouble believing that a young beautiful girl would want me too. Look at me now. My face is a mess and we don't know what it will look like when the swelling goes down."

"Rich, dear boy, I didn't fall in love with you because you are so handsome, or rich, I never thought you were either of those things. I love you because you are just YOU. I can't stand to be away from you. I tried to sleep at the club last night and I couldn't sleep without you. Tommy and I talked for a while and he checked on me later. I was crying over you and he sat and held my hand until I fell asleep. He sat there for hours holding my hand; he is such a sweet old man. Please don't be jealous, but I still love him. Oh! Like a father, not like I love you."

"I can understand why he loves you. Any man would love you."

"He doesn't love me that way anymore. He thinks of me as the daughter he never had. Damn, I forgot, are you hungry, do you want something to eat or drink?"

"Yeah, I guess I am hungry. It will have to be something soft; my front teeth are till loose. I feel like something for breakfast. O.J., maybe oatmeal; then a couple of eggs over light with grits." Sally pressed the button near her and the steward walked in moments later. She gave him my order and ordered a breakfast for herself.

She grinned at me as we ate. "I don't want to get out of sync with you on our meals. I don't want to be having Shrimp Scampi while you eat breakfast."

After breakfast we went back to bed and just relaxed. It was wonderful to just cuddle with her or even just to hold her hand. She seemed very content to just do that. We talked and I was able to tell her a lot of things about my feelings for her. I asked her to be patient with me and how jealous I often got for little or no reason. I told her I was rock solid in my love for her but that I wasn't always sure she loved me."

She smiled at me and said, "I do not understand how anyone as wonderful as you are could doubt that I would love you. You are so self confident in your business affairs and you always do the right thing in an emergency. Please understand that I worship you, you are perfect for me, you are my soul mate, you need never be jealous about me, and no other man will ever touch me. I belong to you and only you, heart, body and soul, forever and ever. You are my love and I am yours."

"Damn Sally, you make me cry and the tears sting in my cuts. God! I wish I could tell you how much I love you. I'll do my best to not get jealous, lots of times I know you don't mean anything when you smile with another guy, but I feel that knife twist in my guts anyway."

"Honey, you are right, my smiles at anyone else don't mean what they mean when I smile at you. I have to confess that when you get jealous I feel a tingle because I know you treasure me, but at the same time I hate it because I know it hurts you and that hurts me too. Please just know in your heart that I well never touch another person sexually, I am your woman, I belong only to you."

She looked at me with tears running down her cheeks, "I want to kiss your sweet lips so badly but I can't. I dearly love kissing you. Oh, look you are hard as a rock. May I kiss that?"

"I would love that."

She pulled the covers down and untied my pajama string and I rose up so she could pull the pants down. She licked all over him. Her lips were oh so soft and wet as she closed her mouth around him. It felt so damned good I couldn't believe it. She pulled up for a moment and scooted down between my legs. She leaned down and sucked a ball into her mouth, I am very sensitive there and there is not much difference in pressure between what pleases me and what hurts me. Sally knew that and she did it just right so I felt the full pleasure and no pain. Wonderful! She slurped that one ball gently in and out of her mouth. Then she sucked the other one in and played with the first one gently with her hand and fingers.

Next her lips closed around the glans and she swirled her tongue around and around it. She moved off of the head and slobbered her slippery saliva all over the shaft. Her hands grasped the shaft and slid up and down him as she twisted her hands. Meanwhile slurped over and down the helmet. Her twisting and gripping hands followed her lips over the wet surface of my cock. 

I reached down and grasped her by the hips. "Please stop and put him inside you, I want to feel your pussy around him." She crawled up astride my legs then straddled my hips. She reached between her legs and rubbed my cock up and down her slit. Then she inched down until the whole head was inside her. She looked down ad me and smiled. She said, "Ready?"

I nodded and felt her drop like a rock taking him to the hilt as her ass slapped against my pelvis. She moved slowly up and slammed down once more. She grinned and said, "Give me your hands and steady me. She worked one foot then the other in under her. She slipped down over him so juicy and hot only to feel as if she bounced off of my pelvis and back to the top not pausing a second before starting down again. She got her rhythm going I knew by the expression on her face and the keening and mewing sounds she was making that she was really into it. Then she looked at me, "unhun, I'mm 'bout ready, baby, how about. . . .Aghun yes, yes, oh yes, yes, my love, cum too sweety, cum with me, oh I feel it, that is soooo damned goooooood. YES!" She smiled at me and I saw that her legs were getting unsteady and helped her over along side of me, then I held her close to me, she was still trembling. I kissed her as best I could. She quickly pushed me away, "Your stitches stick me and I know that had to hurt you a lot." 

"A little, but I needed to kiss you!"

"I love you for trying, it was a little like kissing a porcupine." I pulled her back to me and licked her lips.

"Mmmmm, now I liked that. Does it hurt you?"

"Not a bit if I do it right. Let me try again."

We had the chopper drop us off a Sally's house and we went to look at the PRINCESS. She looked huge. A lot of the outside sheathing was on, both the cabin deck floors were in place and the stairs were in place. The main stairs were in the stern over the paddlewheel housing. There were two outdoor stairs leading from the main deck to the front of first cabin deck, this part of the deck forward of the saloon was called the observation deck. The windows in the cabins on both cabin decks were tricky to build. Each window had a built in shutter that was kept closed whenever the vessel was under way to protect the glass windows from being broken by tree branches in the narrow parts of the river. Dad and uncle Eli had built jigs for the assembly of the forty special shuttered windows. About half were assembled and piles of the precut parts lay nearby. Sally's father had accumulated a large number of old photographs of various parts of the original boat. They were extremely helpful. 




Steamboat Willy Ch. 04



Sally insisted we go home to our doublewide so I could get some rest. She was right, I was pretty tired when we were settled in and we took a nice nap after lunch. We went back and helped out as best I could for three or four hours. This established a routine for the next ten days until I went back to the doctor and the stitches were taken out. I was feeling much better by then. 

Sally and I took upon ourselves the task of arriving at solutions to a bunch of problems that required deviation from the original practices and operations. For instance we could not operate at night with out electric lights for running lights. That meant we had to have a generator. We decided to install a steam-powered generator since we had a source of steam.

We had to install holding tanks for all the waste, solid and liquid. The wood fired stoves were removed and propane stoves were added. We had to install a fire fighting system and some other things to please the Coast Guard. We decided to use oil-fired boilers. The original boiler was retained; we just added oil fed burners. We had bunkers of false cords of wood hiding the fuel tanks. There were seemingly endless things to evaluate and decisions had to be made on all of them. 

We decided that because all the tests were to be done on the Ocklawaha River with its sharp turns we would install modern bow and stern thrusters. They would be under water at all times and thus invisible. I called Miami and put some of our engineering people on researching what units were available and what size would be needed to turn a flat bottomed displacement hull 84' 4" long and drawing 4 feet of water and weighing 65.5 tons.

They came back with a recommendation of a unit called a SP285TC made by Sea Thrust. The company would install the thrusters and set up the controls. The units required 24 Volts of DC power. These thrusters delivered almost 750 pounds of thrust each; which had to be plenty of power. I knew that there was no way two slaves pushing on poles could produce that much thrust. 

I contacted Sea Thrust and we were able to schedule the installation for the following week. We bought a Diesel powered generator which would run using the same oil we would be burning in the boiler. The generator was large enough to carry all the lighting for the whole boat. We wouldn't be able to use oil lamps for anything while carrying passengers for hire.

Sally and I decided to take the yacht and run to the Bahamas for a week or two. We would be back in time for the launching.



Steamboat Willy Ch. 05



Sally and I lay on a deserted and beautiful beach in the Bahamas. We were both completely nude. I applied more sunscreen all over her body. She softly moaned as I covered every exposed piece of skin on her adorable body. I had completed her back and was now making sure I didn't miss any place on her front by going over it for the third time. I wiped my hands on a towel and rubbed across her mound and slipped a finger in her pink slit. It was wet and slippery. She bucked up against my hand, "Richmond Murphy, enough foreplay, do me now. I want your cock inside my hot pussy right now. Hurry."

I knew it was time to obey my lover. I eased between her spread legs and slipped my penis around in her slit and running her lubrication all over my cock with my hand making him nice and slippery. I eased him against the entryway to her vagina. She lunged up against me sinking my cock half way inside. I pressed forward and slowly eased all the way in until I felt my pelvis against hers. I felt her squeeze her vagina tightly around my shaft. I pulled slowly back out until only the crown was inside her. I eased out a little more and just felt her inner lips close around him. I moaned and plunged back inside her as hard and deep as I could. She felt so good. The hot wet folds of her pussy were heavenly. Then she clamped hard around my shaft. I thought it was going to hurt to move my cock out but no. But no! It was a feeling out of this world. I was almost out when I plunged back in as hard as I could. I slowed down and went to our favorite long, deep, slow strokes. 

Her juices were slippery and plentiful and the pleasure was almost more than I could stand. My beautiful wife was watching me with half closed eyes, "Honey, are you close?" I asked.

"I am right on the edge waiting for you."

"Then I'm not pleasing you like I should. I can't stop; I'm there now. I stiffened and squirted my load deep inside her. She held me tight and trembled. She didn't make a sound. She didn't really cum. I could no longer satisfy her. I looked at her and cried, "I'm so sorry. What did I do wrong. You have to help me.

"What are you talking about?"

"About you faking an orgasm. I hate that. If I am not able to please you never fake it. Please. I understand that sometimes women just don't cum. I can live with that. I can't live with a lie, that is what faking it is."

"Sweetheart, I love you with all my heart and soul. I didn't want to hurt you. Please forgive me. I worry about your face and your nose. I am afraid I will hurt you if I get too passionate and energetic in my loving. I love the closeness and sweetness our loving brings even if I don't cum. Please don't be angry with me."

"Was I doing something wrong? What was it?"

"No, Baby, it was me, all me. Don't blame yourself?"

"Who else do I blame? You always came before."

"Listen big guy, I love you, only you. I love your loving, when I start reading a book or fixing my makeup while you are screwing me then start to worry. That is never going to happen, I know that."

"All right, I will try harder, just don't fake it. Please! That scares me."

"What ever you want dearest, what ever you want."

We loaded up the little skiff with the cooler, the picnic basket, and the rest of our stuff. The outboard motor started instantly. We ran around the point of land and saw the yacht at anchor. A few minutes later we eased up to the gangway and climbed aboard

We retired to our suite. Sally went into the shower and I waited until the stewards delivered our things then joined her in the shower. We washed each other carefully being sure to remove all the sand from the beach. We washed each other's hair to remove all traces of salt from the water and the beach.

I lay on the bed and waited for Sally to join me. She didn't, she rang for the stewardess who was also a hairdresser. I asked Sally, "Are we going out tonight?"

"Yes, don't you remember, this is the night of the charity ball at the club. I have to go."

"Even if I don't want to go?"

"I don't want to go with out you, but I really need to go tonight."

"I'll join you later if I feel better."

She looked at me carefully, "If you feel that bad I'll stay with you." 

"No! You are the chairperson; you go do your duty. If I feel up to it I will join you later. I let my eyes droop and watch her check the time, and then She walked into the dressing room. There was a knock on the door and Sally pulled the sheet over me and went to let the Stew in. They went in the dressing area and I heard them talking. I got up and dressed myself. I put on my new Armani Tux with the wing style collared shirt. I managed the bowtie and cummerbund. I looked in the full-length mirror and thought I looked pretty good. I walked in the salon and fixed a light drink. Sally walked out with the hairdresser and her face lit up in a huge smile. "You are going!"

"Yeah girl, I just couldn't let you go alone. If I feel worse I'll lie down in your office on the couch."

She said, "Stand up and let us see you. Oh! Wow! You look really nice. Why don't we skip the party and just go to bed?"

"Sounds good to me? Seriously though, what time do you want me to order the Chopper?"

"The party starts at seven with dinner at eight. I guess we should leave at six."

I pressed the captain's pager and he answered instantly. I asked if the Helicopter could be ready to leave at six. He assured me that it would be ready. Sally and the stewardess went back to finish dressing her. A few minutes later she came into the room, I was literally stunned. She was unbelievably beautiful. Her gown was fantastic. It was a metallic gold color and the bodice fit like a second skin and showed her lovely breasts to perfection, lots of cleavage without being tacky. The rest of the dress fit perfectly also. She turned and the dress was molded to her shapely ass and her upper thighs then flared to just above the gold stiletto heels and was slit knee high in front. She was a vision of beauty. I would have been willing to bet her picture would be in the local fashion pages. She smiled at me and my heart almost thumped it's way out of my chest.

She looked into my eyes, "You like?"

"I love. Damn, they should put a bell on you. All those old guys are going to have hart attacks, me too!" We heard the chopper engine wind up and the stew brought a black gold trimmed evening cape to put around her shoulders. As we approached the door to the helicopter pad the engine stopped and we waited for the blades to stop. She was handed a clear plastic dome to put over her hair to protect it from the wind and downdraft. I helped her aboard, and then joined her. The engine started and we were soon on our way.

We were over the club in about half an hour then the pilot told us we would be number three to land. In another ten minutes we were in the club. We went to her office and she left her cape and touched up her hair and makeup. We went down to the ballroom. We circulated and talked with a lot of her old friends, everyone was sweet and friendly. She told me she just got a signal that she was about to be introduced. She hugged me and went through a door beside the stage. Tommy Bernhard walked out on the stage and held his hands up.

The place became instantly quiet. "Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to introduce one of my favorite people; she is our chairwoman of the board. She is a charter member of this club. She has at one time or another held every office we have. This club owes its very existence to her. My good and very dear friend Sally Murphy, nee Sally Thompson." He turned toward the wings of the stage. Sally walked out on the stage to a thunderous applause. Everyone was cheering, whistling and clapping. She curtsied and smiled. I was so damned proud I could have burst. 

She was absolutly gorgeous. Flash bulbs popped and she raised her hand. It was instantly silent. "Ladies and gentlemen, Good Evening. Tonight we are here the raise money for a charity dear to my heart. We want to build a new wing on the regional hospital. It is to be called the William Thompson memorial wing for the recovery and treatment of stroke victims. I wish to start the contributions with my personal donation of ten million dollars, Thank you, please be generous. One of our own, Mary Snyder passed away just last month from the result of a stroke. Thank you. 

I rushed forward and helped her from the stage and held her tight. She put her head on my chest and hugged me back. Tommy took the microphone and gave directions for donating. We moved around the room shaking hands and talking to everyone. An announcement was made that dinner was being served in the dining room.

The meal was outstanding, a choice of Surf and Turf, (Lobster and Filet Mignon) or Roast Wild Pheasant. Everything was perfectly prepared and served. After dinner a band tuned up in the ballroom. Sally and I finished sipping some coffee and I asked her to dance with me. She said she would love to dance with me. She stepped into my arms and looked into my eyes as we danced, "I love you dearly my man. I hope I looked nice for you."

"Nice? You are beautiful tonight. I felt a tap on my shoulder and heard a man ask to cut in. I smiled at him, "Only with a 100,000 dollar donation." I saw a huge grin light up Sally's face. The guy pulled out his checkbook and wrote out a check. Sally danced a number with him and soon the word got out and there was a line of seven or eight guys and three women waiting to dance with her. 

A young familiar looking guy was next. He handed me his check. When Sally saw him she grinned hugely and they were gone. They danced one song and I lost sight of them toward the end of it. As the next song ended they returned. Sally gave me a kiss on the cheek and moved off with the next man. Her previous partner smiled and walked away. Her lipstick was on his mouth. 

The next guy in line handed me his check and said, "You must be her pimp." And he grinned.

I softly asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"I heard she used to be a whore and you are collecting money for her."

I turned and caught him with a lovely right cross and dropped him on his ass. He was shaking his head and trying to get up when three or four waiters rushed up. One said, "Is there a problem Mr. Murphy?"

"This man made an inappropriate remark about Miz Sally. Please get his name and bring it to me. You might want to explain how you feel about her to him and point out the error of his ways."

Sally rushed over and wanted to know what was going on. I told he that a man was suddenly taken ill and the waiters were helping him find a way home.

The next man in line said, "Sally, that is exactly what happened, the man was lucky someone as nice as your husband was here to help him. It could have been serious."

Sally said, "Well it gave me a little break anyway, my feet are killing me."

The next man in line said, "Sally, I'll trade you the dance for a kiss on the cheek." Sally grinned and kissed him sweetly on the cheek leaving a nice lip print. The next guy said he would make the same deal if she would freshen up her lipstick so he would get a good print. Sally got rid of all her dances that way.

We returned to our table. Tommy Bernhard shook my hand and asked me to please call him in the morning. I said I would. I smiled at my wife, "Sweetie, are you ready to go home?" 

She smiled and said, "I thought you would never ask." I took out my cell phone and called the helicopter. The pilot told me that he had anticipated my call and was first in a holding pattern about five miles away. I told him to come on and get us. We paused in her office to get her cape. I pulled the hood up over her hair and we waited a in the glassed in waiting room until the chopper was down and the rotors were still. We hurried out and I helped her in. I ran to the other side and climbed aboard. We were both glad to feel the rotorcraft settle onto the deck of the yacht. We sat and savored a brandy with our shoes off. I took off the tie and jacket. I told Sally how proud I was to be her husband. "Sweetie, not near as proud as I am to be Mrs. Richmond Murphy. There is no way I could ever be prouder of anything than that."

She walked to me and asked me to pull her zipper down in back of her dress. I did and she held the dress up and turned to face me. She released the gown and it fell at her feet. She stood before me; she wore no bra and only the tiniest thong with her thigh high stockings. No wonder I saw no panty lines in her gown. I asked if she were through with her drink. She nodded. 

I picked her up and carried her to our bedroom. I put her down and we undressed as we watched each other. I picked up the remote and shut off all the lights but a nightlight in the bathroom. I crawled in bed and she slipped over next to me and we cuddled. I rolled onto my back and she put her head on my shoulder and an arm across my chest. She pulled my face to her for a kiss. She purred and whispered, "Darling, this is Heaven." In five minutes she was sound asleep.

The next morning we went to check on the OCKLAWAHA PRINCESS. She was beautiful. Only a few minor things were being touched up, she looked incredibly top-heavy setting on the cradle on the ways. She rose almost twenty-five feet above the waterline and only extended down four and a half feet below it.

All systems were checked and ready. Hoses ran to the various water pick-ups for the diesel generator, the steam engine and the intake for the reverse osmosis system. The diesel GenSet would kick in when ever the steam generator was overloaded. The steam plant could handle most daylight operations, but was overloaded at night with all the lights on. 

The vessel the PRINCESS was replicating had a fire basket mounted on top of the pilothouse. Running at night a fire was built to provide light so the crew could see to steer. The fire basket set on legs in an iron tub containing a few inches of water. Pine and lightered pine gave off the most light. We had not decided if we would really try it or not. I slipped off and called Tommy Bernhard. He was happy I had called. He had investigated the incident from the night before. He asked I was happy with the outcome or if I thought we should deny the application for membership. He said the gentleman in question had been educated by the staff as to how wonderful Miz Sally really was and how much every one of them worshiped her. He apparently realized the error of his ways and was sincerely contrite about his actions.

I asked if there were such a thing as a probationary or trial membership. He said he thought that was an excellent solution to the problem. 

Every thing was ready to christen and launch the PRINCESS the following morning. A pair of large bulldozers were already hooked up and ready to regulate the slow decent down the slope to the water. 

The PRINCESS was decorated with red, white and blue bunting and looked very festive. I saw Jeb up in the pilothouse and I had noticed steam venting a few places and knew the pressure was pretty high. I pumped my fist up and down in the universal signal and steam horn blasted out. What a beautiful sound. Jeb grinned from ear to ear. Sally smiled up at me. "She really is ready, isn't she?"

The ways were carefully greased and everything was checked for the tenth time. Everyone gathered around Sally and I. I asked, "Can anyone here think of anything that needs to be done to finish The PRINCESS? No one? Ok. Sally do you wish to add anything?"

"Yes I have a couple of things. You are all still employed after the launch. We are considering another project. After the launch there will be a party for the whole crew Saturday morning on board the Princess. Starting Monday everyone gets a weeks paid vacation. That is all I have." 

There were smiles and backslapping all around. Sally and I walked to my Dad and Uncle Ike. They each hugged each of us. "You guys are really fun to work for, this was without a doubt the most fun I have had in years. Ike and I have been talking it over and we want to look around for a place down here."

Sally kissed each of them. "You have one, Move in my trailer over here and stay as long as you want. We hope you will stay forever."

"We couldn't do that."

"Why not? The two of you love to catch catfish off that dock. It will be hard to find a more convenient spot."

"Honey, Ike has been a widower for eighteen years and I have been one for fourteen years. We have decided to start dating. We may need two places."

I looked at both of them; something wasn't being said here. "OK, what is going on here? I know something is going on."

"Well son, you guys been so danged busy and so have we that we ain't told ya we met a couple of gals we kinda like."

"What?"

"Yeah! Son! They are a couple of cuties, sisters, both widows, five or ten years younger than we are. We are gonna need a little privacy."

Sally said, "Not the Purvis sisters, Peggy and Patsy?"

"Why yes, that's them."

"Wonderful, they are beautiful and both as sweet as they can be, I have known them all my life."

"Yeah! They think the sun rises and sets with you, Sally."

"We are probably gonna take that week and go home and sell out and pack up and bring our trucks and tools down here."

"Oh! That's just wonderful, promise to bring them on the party cruise day after tomorrow? I want Rich to meet them."

"We'll ask them tonight, we're goin' over there for dinner. Can we borrow the Liberty Jeep tonight?"

"Hell yes, do you like it?"

"Yeah! We been usin' it while you was gone."

"I'll get two more tomorrow, the Company will own them and fuel them, they will be assigned to the two new foremen of the boat division."

The next morning there was quite a crowd at the boatyard. Sally swung a bottle of champagne across the bow, it shattered beautifully as she yelled, "I christen thee 'the OCKLAWAHA PRINCESS'." 

The men along the carriage began knocking out the wedges holding the cradle in place. The first movement was slight, and then it moved slightly faster. The two dozers controlled her speed and she slowly eased down the ways. Her stern hit the water first. WILLY moved in behind her as the dozers cast off the chains that held her. A heavy rope was passed between the vessels. Willy was put in reverse and pulled the PRINCESS off the cradle. She was floating. Her horn let out a long joyful blast. I was in the pilothouse and used the thrusters to ease her into the dock. She was secured while the personnel required came aboard. Sally climbed the ladder to the pilothouse. She kissed me and grinned. I picked up a walkee talkee radio. "Engineering are you ready?"

"Aye aye Sir!"

"Deck ready?"

"Aye aye Sir!"

"WILLY ready?"

"Aye aye Sir"

"Cast off all lines." I watched as the order was obeyed.

I rang three bells and we moved slowly astern. Two bells put us in neutral. I moved the bow thruster to the left. We turned nicely to the left. I moved the control to neutral and dropped my hand to the stern thruster control and moved the stern to the right. I centered the control. I rang one bell and the PRINCESS Moved ahead. I looked at Sally and saw tears running from her eyes. I quickly kissed her cheek and we were off. I noticed a man standing behind her. It was the younger man from last night. I approached the first sharp turn with trepidation. I handed the thruster remote control to Sally. I turned the wheel full to the right. We eased into the turn. "Turn us damn it!" I yelled at Sally. I saw her move the control and watched the bow swing nicely around the corner. She looked back with a grin. I turned as hard as I could to the left. Sally was on the ball this time and we had no problem with the turn. The young guy stepped up close to her and she was telling him all about the thrusters. 




Steamboat Willy Ch. 05



We were in the middle of the next turn and I had to yell at her again. "Sally, Damn it, pay attention to your steering, get your guest off the bridge deck if he is distracting you." I saw a tear run down her cheek. I felt bad and beckoned her over to me. I said, "I'm sorry, let me have the control. I want to see how much trouble it is to do both things. I tried several more turns and while I could do the turns alone, it was tricky, I didn't like releasing the steering wheel to use the remote. Jeb was standing behind me so I let him steer. I handed the remote back to Sally. She was perfect the rest of the time. I quietly told Jeb what I wanted to do and he nodded. I went down the front ladder and went to the bow. I opened the hatch there and checked as the bow thruster was used. There was no sign of leakage. The bilge was bone dry. I continued the inspection of the little ship. 

When we reached the end of navigable part of the river Jeb slowed us and Sally used the thrusters to turn the vessel around. Jeb held us in neutral for a moment while WILLY came along side and I jumped aboard. I watched as the PRINCESS moved away a little, then the paddlewheel thrashed and a large wash of foam and spray boiled out from behind her. 

She was an impressive sight as she negotiated the tight turns in the narrow river. She really looked huge. There were five photographers board the WILLY. They asked if I could get the PRRINCESS could make a little more smoke. I called on my radio and told the engineer to increase the oil flow to the burners.

"But, Sir, They are perfect now. We have complete combustion. Almost no smoke."

"Yes, you are right. The photographers are requesting you make a little smoke. Just enough to see, if you please, Engineer."

The smoke from the stack looked about as thick as that from the wood burning WILLY. It was perfect; a nice visible stream of gray smoke. I knew it would require the cleaning of the boiler, flues, and the stack sooner but that didn't matter. I told the engineer to let me know before he cleaned the stack.

About a half an hour later he called and said he was ready to clean out. I told the photo guys to be ready. A huge cloud of black smoke erupted from the PRINCESS and trailed behind her. The photographers loved it. I got on the radio and told the PRINCESS we would catch up soon. I had the WILLY drop me off at the home landing. As I walked up the slope to the boatyard I heard Jeb call me several times. I didn't answer. Next he called WILLY and asked if I were listening to my radio. They answered that they didn't know because I was no longer aboard. I heard Sally ask were I was and they told her I had disembarked at the Thompson Landing.

I heard my cell phone start ringing, after a short debate with myself I answered it. It was Sally. "Why did you leave me like that?"

"Listen girl, I am in no mood to play stupid games with you. If you have something to say, say it. If not we'll talk when we see each other again."

"Why are you angry with me? I haven't done anything wrong."

"Let's just say I don't like unpleasant surprises in my personal life. You could even say I hate it. Surprises have ended more than one personal relationship for me. If you have done nothing wrong you haven't a thing to worry about. We will sort thing out when you are ready to talk. I prefer to do it face to face. I really hate this."

"OH! Baby, I hate it too, I love you with all my heart, and I belong exclusively to you, forever. I will never in any way break the vows I made before you and God. Never, I will die first."

"Then finish the test runs and I'll be here in our home waiting for you. I want you to know I do love you too and I sincerely hope I am just being a silly fool."

"I think everything will be just fine when we can talk. I have thought about it and I think I know what is bothering you and it is entirely my fault. I love you Rich, always assume that to be true, and then work from there. OK?"

"I'll try that! Hurry home." 

I thought about what was bothering me. 

The young guy, she obviously knew him from somewhere. 

She didn't introduce him to me at the dance. 

Why not?

She obviously had invited him to go on the maiden voyage and didn't mention that to me. 

Did she just forget both times?

She still didn't introduce me in the pilothouse. 

Did she forget again?

Was she trying to piss me off?

Why?

The only thing that sense to me was that she didn't want me to meet him.

Why?

If she is still true to me and knew him from before and doesn't want to introduce me there has to be a reason.

Ah! She knows I will meet him anyway, and that I will find out something she thinks will anger or hurt me.

If I read her right I think she is more worried about hurting me than anything else.

I remember talking about meeting old lovers; both of us agreed it was not the best idea. Had to be awkward at best.

I got out the fixings for some drinks and put ice in the silver ice bucket I mixed myself a Spiced Rum and water and had a sip. I heard cars in the drive. I started toward thee door when it flew open and Sally rushed to me and hugged and kissed me. "Are you still angry with me?"

"Should I be?"

"Not yet, you don't know anything yet."

I nodded at her friend, "Sally, I listened to what you said about your love for me and started from there." I held out my hand and he had a nice firm grip. "I'm Rich Murphy, Sally's new husband, she doesn't have me broken in yet, and I'm still a bit rough around the edges."

Sally said, "Rich, Dear, this is Tom Bernhard, Junior, Tommy's son."

"I grinned at him, "I see the resemblance now, I am very fond of your dad. Let me finish telling my sweet wife what I figured out by assuming she loved me. I thing she didn't want to introduce us because the two of you are old lovers and she was afraid I would be hurt or upset. How am I doing?"

Sally stared at me with her mouth open. "How--? What" Who told you?"

"Honey, it is the only thing that made sense if you love me."

Tom said, "Rich I hadn't seen Sally in seven or eight years until last night. I loved her dearly at one time, I asked her to marry me. She turned me down. It broke my heart. Now I see it as a blessing, I have a lovely wife I love and two kids I adore. I still have feelings for her though and I am thrilled to see her so happy."

I looked at Sally; she had a tear in her eye. "Baby I sat here and thought about things before you got here. I realized I was worse than you were. I hid something that happened at the club last night from you. I told you a fib. I didn't want you hurt or upset. Please forgive me."

"Will I ever find out if you don't tell me?"

"I don't think so."

"So why tell me?"

"I think you know. If you hide something it can do the very thing you are trying to prevent, and even make it worse."

"Rich, I really do love you. Damn you make me so proud to be your wife. Now tell me before I scream!"

"Do you remember the guy I told you got sick when you were coming back from dancing with Tom?"

"Yes I do."

"He didn't get sick, he made a remark and I decked him."

"What did he say?"

"What purpose would it serve for Rich to tell you that Sally? He stood up for his woman, that's all that counts."

"I would still like to know."

"Sally he said something I thought was uncalled for and insulted both of us. I told four of the waiters what he had said and I was afraid they were going to kill him. The headwaiter told me they told him how they all felt about you and explained to him what sort of person you are. He said he was mistaken and should never have said what he did. He is up for membership in the club. Tom's Dad called me this morning and I suggested he might be given a provisional membership." Sally pulled my face down and kissed me again.

I asked Tom if he needed to call home or anything. He said no, he said he had talked to his wife on the way to the house. I asked if he and his family were coming on the short cruise tomorrow?

He said his children were two small to enjoy it, but that his wife was looking forward to it.

"Does she know about Sally?"

"She knows everything about Sally and wants to meet her. She was tickled I danced with Sally last night. The baby was cranky last night and Mom wanted to stay home so just Dad and I went to the club last night. Doris, my wife, has heard Mom and Dad talk about how wonderful Sally is for years. It has just never worked out for them to meet. I have a feeling that Sally being married now may have had something to do with it working now."

I looked at the two of them. "I have a million questions I want to ask both of you, but I don't really want to hear the answers. Does that make sense?"

Sally looked at me, "I'll tell you anything you want to know. I don't want to ever meet one of your old girl friends. I would be so damned jealous I couldn't stand it."

"Hey! What happened before we knew each other existed is no issue in all respects as far as I am concerned. Now if I catch you hiding him behind my back again it could be a hazardous experience. My sense of humor and good will are strained enough."

"Rich, you are a stronger man than I am. I would have been furious."

"What makes you think I am any different?"

"Oh shit!" said Tom.

Sally buried her face in my shoulder and cried, She looked up and touched my cheek and cried harder. 

Tom saluted me and turned and left. I held my wife tightly in my arms. She sniffled and jerked a bit. "I didn't mean to hurt you. You are my true love. I feel so bad. I was afraid you wouldn't understand, and that was my big mistake. You are the most understanding person I know or have ever known and I didn't believe in you. I was just so excited to see Tom, I wanted to drag him to meet you, and then I thought, Shit, what will I say, anything but the truth would be wrong, the truth would hurt you. What could I do? I chose wrong. I was scared. All that is no excuse, I did wrong. Please forgive me."

"Well, you were a bad, bad girl. I think a barehanded spanking is in order. Or, for a serious infraction like this, a belt might be in order. Yes, A belt with your little panties down sounds about right."

She looked up at me. "Really?"

"Well I don't know about the belt, I think my hand will do. Or maybe my lips or my tongue would inflict sufficient pain."

"OH! I never knew you were so cruel and mean. Isn't there some way I can make it up to you? I'll do anything to please you."

"Let me think about that for a while, I can't imagine what you could possibly do to appease me."

"Why do you have your hand in my panties playing with my little wet pussy then?"

I pulled my hand out and picked her up and put her over my shoulder and carried her to our bed. I told her to kneel on the bed and take her punishment. She climbed on the bed. I yanked her jeans and little thong panties down to her knees. I buried my face in her bottom. She squealed, "Oh! No, not that."

"Yes bad girl, you smell real yuckie down there, I had better clean that up with my tongue before I punish you."

"Yes, Sir, I think that would be the proper thing to do to really make me suffer."

I ran my wet tongue down over her little puckered hole as I held her cheeks widely spread. I went up and down and managed to get about an inch of my tongue inside her rectum. She moaned softly. She was in terror I guess. As I licked all around there she became louder and louder.

My saliva was running down into her pussy. I spread some of the slippery stuff around and ran three fingers into her vagina. She twisted around and looked at me. "Can we take our clothes off and really get my punishment going."

"I think that would be a good way to make you sorry you were so bad. When you are nude you may get back on your knees back with your legs spread. I'll take your internal temperature with the probe in my mouth."

"Oh, that is so cruel, the old tongue on the clit torture?"

"I am afraid you must be taught a lesson, bad girl."

"Teach me big Daddy, teach me!" I let a large mouthful of my spit lubricate two of my fingers and pressed them slowly and cautiously in her asshole. I felt her relax and I was in as far as I could go. I dribbled some more spit around my fingers and slipped a third one into her.

She moaned, "Mmmmmm, that feels so good." I spread and gently twisted my fingers and spread them open as wide as I could. 

I eased my cock into her pussy and slowly moved in and out. I quickly pulled out and shoved my cock to her little puckered hole. I worked a couple of inches into her. I spit some more then eased into her some more. Soon I was fully embedded in her ass. I started slowly stroking in and out.

She lowered her face and shoulders to the bed and raised her little ass higher. That seemed to give me a better angle and it felt as if I was in deeper than before. I loved it. She was so tight and warm, I could feel her tighten the little circle of sphincter muscles, as I pulled outward and then relax them as I thrust into her.

I wanted to increase my speed but I knew about three fast strokes would finish me off. I asked if she were all right with what I was doing. She said it was wonderful "I never knew it was this good, this is heavenly. I love to feel you fill my whole body with yours, then pull it slowly out until I feel empty and wanting you to fill me again. Do you think another hour will be enough punishment for a while?"

"You are dreaming girl, you feel so delightful I'll be lucky to last one minute more, have you cum yet/"

"Only constantly for the last five minutes. I am having a monster one, RIGHT nowwwww. GOD THAT IS GOOD! Oh my God. I may never walk again but it was worth it. Yes, YES I feel you cumming in my ass, oh! So slippery and nice, I love how that feels. Don't stop."

I felt myself go flaccid and pulled out. I pressed her gently down on the bed and said, "Don't move Darling, I'll be right back. I hurried in the bathroom and washed my cock quickly. I took a hand towel and turned the shower on hot and ran to the bed. "Here girl. Put this between your legs so you don't dribble as you walk. I'll wash you in the shower. I managed to get her nice and clean with out getting her hair wet. 

We dried ourselves and we hung our towels up and she stood in front of me, nude, and reached for my face and pulled me down for a very sweet kiss. She pulled away and tears coursed down her cheeks. "I have been scared to death ever since last night. I was afraid you might feel upset with me. I was so afraid something bad would happen. I think I cried all afternoon after you left. Poor Tom had to contend with that. She kissed me again. I took her hand and led her to bed. We cuddled for a while and she ran her little hand down over my belly then up and around my chest.

"Hold it right there girl. You are getting me excited and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast. Do you want us to fix something here; go to the Yacht for dinner or go out to dinner?"

She smiled her sweet innocent little girl smile at me and said, "I have another idea, and we can eat later."

I grabbed her and kissed her passionately. This time she pushed me away. "Wow, I was just teasing but you are serious. We better eat first. Lets fix some hotdogs and open a can of pork and beans to go with them. OK?" I nodded and took her hand and led her to the kitchen.

"We are going to cook and eat naked?"

"Why not, look at all the time it will save when we are through."

I opened a package of hotdogs and put four on a cutting board. I cut four slits just through the skin on opposite sides then split them lengthwise. I flattened them out and put them in a pan with some butter. Sally opened her beans and put them in a bowl. She did a little doctoring on them; she wouldn't let me see what she was doing. I grilled the dogs and put them aside while I grilled the buns. I assembled them on the plates. I chopped a small onion, and put out mustard, relishes and catsup.

We ate at the little kitchen table. Her beans were excellent. I think she added some brown sugar and a little mustard but I'm not sure. I liked them. She liked my hotdogs too. We cleaned up and went back to bed. Lovely evening.

The next morning we were at the PRINCESS early. She looked great, 'ship shape and seaman like' as they used to say. The boiler was slowly heating up. She was producing just enough steam to heat the hot water for the galley. The fuel and fresh water tanks were full and she set right above her waterline. She was drawing only sixteen inches of water. She would float in a damp hanky. We figured we would have about sixty guests aboard plus eighteen crew. She would draw about eighteen inches then.

The caterers were on time. Everything was onboard in short order. Sally and I inspected the crew in their new uniforms. Hey looked good. They laughed at each other. The uniforms were period clothes from about 1895. No two were the same. Only the Captain had a real uniform. The Stewards wore white cotton outfits. The deck crew was in tattered looking nondescript clothing and hats. The officers wore jackets, shirts and ties. The man dressed as the captain was really just a greeter.

The guests started arriving. They were directed to parking spaces and several golf carts brought them to the dock. My Dad and Uncle Ike were proud as punch with two very pretty ladies on their arms. Sally made a fuss over the ladies and kissed the two smiling men.

The Advertising people and planners from my Company were on time. Tommy Bernhard, his wife and Tom, Jr. and his wife arrived. Sally greeted all of them. Elsa, Tommy's wife pulled Sally to the pretty girl standing next to Tom, Jr. She was introduced to us as Tom's wife Doris. Sally and Doris stood looking at each other, suddenly Sally screamed, "Doris Patterson!" The girl stared and yelled, "Sally Thompson! They hugged each other while Tom and I looked at each other.

Sally grinned, "We went to High School together. We were good friends." Doris pulled Sally off to one side saying, "We have to talk." Tom and I talked. He wanted to take a good look at the steam engine. He was an old steam engine buff. Tom and I walked down and looked her over carefully. He said, "Who installed her for you? He did a good job." I told him I had done it with help and direction from an expert. Professor Don Mitchell. Tom said, "I know of him, is her still here?" 

"Yes, he should be aboard today."

"Wow! This is an old Taylor and Almy Water Tube Boiler, They were one of the first modern style boilers. She probably has about a 115 degree working pressure, right?" 

"That's right." We walked back and looked at the engine.

"Hey! OH! What a beautiful Bailey Brothers double piston engine. About a forty horsepower beast! Tremendous torque but not much speed. A really fine looking example, she looks like new. I love the way she looks, all black and shining steel with gold trim and scrollwork. Did you do that too?"

"I cheated, I used decals. It does look nice though."

" I envy you being to mess with this engine every day."

"Tom, I never see it unless there is a problem. Are you looking for a job?"

"Not really, I just resigned my Navy commission. I was a Commander and was captain of a destroyer on my last trip to the Persian Gulf. Doris told me I had to choose between her and the kids or the Navy. But I don't need a job. I have plenty of money."

"Well how about helping us out, Sally and I are talking about building a couple more boats and perhaps opening a theme park with a history of this area and its boats and life style. It won't really be for the money but for the fun of doing it. We all need to talk together."

"Now you have my attention. Lets get together and hash it out."

"We need to find the girls. We should be getting under way." We ran up the ladders to the pilothouse and found them there.




Steamboat Willy Ch. 05



Sally said, "Here they are! We were wondering if you guys had jumped ship."

"Well is everything ready to get under way?"

Sally said, "Yes dear. Everyone has reported ready in all respects."

I looked at Tom, "Well then get us under way Skipper." He grinned and walked out to the starboard side of the little ship and looked fore and aft. He yelled, "Cast off fore and aft. He moved to the wheel and grabbed the thruster joysticks and moved them both to port. The PRINCESS moved slowly sideways through the water. He checked the distance to the dock and moved the aft thruster to the starboard. The bow was moving to the left and the stern was moving to the right.

When we were pointed in the opposite direction he centered both joysticks. He yanked on the bell rope and we faintly heard the bell in the engine compartment ring once. The paddle wheel started the first of many turns for that day. Tom yanked on the horn line and blasted out four toots. He looked at me. I said, "North." 

When we got to the channel he turned left. I picked up the thruster remote. I helped a hair with the turn. On the next turn he needed a lot of help. I stepped to him and told him to always cheat to the upstream side of the turn. He handled the next turn better. He grinned at me, "You are right, makes a big difference." I saw Jeb, dressed as a Negro pilot, standing behind us. I smiled at him. I called him over and told Tom that Jeb would steer for him if he desired. Tom smiled and stepped aside. I handed Tom the remote and walked to the two ladies. I lifted Sally's hand to my lips. And mouthed, "I love you."

Doris smiled, "I saw that, you never had to hide how you feel about each other from Tom or I. Tom is still too 'Navy' to do that yet, but he is learning. It is ingrained in his brain that PDAs are a No-No." 

Sally looked puzzled, "What's a PDA?"

"A PDA is a 'Public Demonstration of Affection.' Taboo for officers, not dignified you see." Laughed Doris. She looked seriously at Sally and I, "I love to see how you and Rich hold hands or touch when ever you are close." Tom had walked up behind Doris; he leaned forward and kissed her cheek. "I'm learning." He turned back to helping in the turns. Doris watched him go with a smile in her adoring eyes. I took Doris's hand and pulled her gently and put her little hand on Tom's arm. I patted her hand and they looked at me. "Sally and I need to go mix and talk to our other guests. Will you guys be OK?" They nodded yes.

We walked aft and went down the stairs over the paddle- wheel. When we reached the first cabin deck I pulled Sally out a door to the stern observation deck. We watched the wake as it boiled out behind us. I pulled her into one of the two deluxe cabins adjoining the Stern Observation deck. I shut the door and pulled her into my arms and kissed her. Her arms went around my neck. She looked at the neatly made bed. "Shit, we just can't, maybe later we can christen her." I pouted and only got another kiss for my trouble.

We made our way forward to the Salon and Bow observation deck. The caterers were setting up a buffet in the salon. It looked very attractive. The dumbwaiter between the galley and the salon was getting a workout. We were getting to the straight part of the river. Uncle Ike was explaining some part of the boat to his companion, Patsy. I told Patsy that Uncle Ike had almost built the boat single handedly and that Dad had only helped a little. She grinned and pulled me aside, "I know better than that, but thank you for doing that any way. Your uncle is a very fine man and doesn't need any help. I think the world of him. Now you, you married the sweetest girl in the world, don't you dare hurt her or sis and I will hunt you down. I swear it!"

"Ma'am, I promise that will never happen." I kissed her cheek. Sally walked over and said, "Miz Patsy are you trying to steal my man?" 

"Danged right I am sweetie, he's a real stud." She turned and walked away. We both watched her walk away with our jaws hanging down. We looked at each other and giggled. I looked up and saw my father watching us. He said something to Miss Peggy and came over to us. "You two aren't funnin' about Miz Patsy are you? She and her sister are very special people." 

"Dad we couldn't agree with you more, they are super special. Miz Patsy just threatened me with dire consequences if I ever hurt Sally. I guess You, Uncle Ike, and Miz Peggy would help her too!"

"Won't happen, I know that. But be careful, everyone who knows her would be after your ass if you hurt Sally."

"What if she hurts me?" 

"Then you probably deserve it."

"WHAT?" He smiled and walked back to Miz Peggy.

Sally finished talking with a couple I didn't know and came over and held my arm. We walked out on the open observation deck and talked to other people. This time Sally never let go of my arm. Everyone we talked to loved the PRINCESS and thought brunch trips would be a big hit. I kissed Sally and told her I needed to go check on Tom and Doris.

Tom smiled as I stepped in beside him. He and Doris were relaxing in two chairs while Jeb steered. I told them to go on down and get brunch. Another black deck hand was there and Jeb told me he didn't need any more help. I took him at his word and returned to find Sally sitting at a table with Tom and Doris. Sally had fixed a plate for me and I thanked her for thinking of me. The food was good but not what I had hoped for. I asked the others for their opinions about the food. They were happy with it. "But not really impressed?" I asked. They all agreed. I told Sally I thought we could do better. We would need to start our own commissary and hire a chief before we started making paid trips. The way the Salon was arraigned out we could seat 44 people for a serving. 

Since the maximum number of passengers was 80, two servings would be adequate. On the original boats the cooks served Florida country cooking. Venison, ham, chicken, beef roast, turkey, pork, and mullet. The boat would stop at landings along the way. Hunters and farmers would signal the approaching boats. The boats would stop and buy wild turkey, venison or quail, chickens and eggs.

I envisioned something similar with a limited choice of entrées. Most meals would be precooked ashore and heated and served on board ship. We would need a full kitchen ashore in addition to the commissary. We would need to research if the cooked items should be plated on the boat or on shore. We would need to get help there from some food service experts.

I looked at Sally, Doris and Tom and said, "This boat building business has sure gotten complicated. All I know how to do is swing an ax."

"Bull," said my wife, "You don't get to be a zillionaire just using an ax. We know better than that, you will find the best people and put them to work for us."

"You mean I won't have to cook too!"

"No, you don't have to cook, dish washing, yes!" 

"Damn! I just knew you would match my abilities to my job."

"Sweetie, you know better than that, I just can't let you be a gigolo. I need you all to my self."

Doris laughed, "Wow! Now there is a testimonial if I ever heard one."

Tom smiled, "I don't know about that, it could mean he can only handle her, nothing left for anyone else."

Sally said, "Hey! Be nice."

I looked at each of them, "Well, I don't recall having any complaints, the most I ever did in one night was eight."

Tom and Doris looked at each other. Sally stared at me. "What? You screwed eight women in one night? That must have been last week that night we only made love three times."

"No dear, it was long before I ever met you."

"Tell us all about it."

"No, whatever we did before we met is irrelevant to today. Today you satisfy me completely."

Tom said, "Do you believe him Sally?"

"Absolutly, he will not lie. He just can't do it."

I looked at my love, "Now that we have discussed my aberrant sexual behavior would someone else like to volunteer to be dissected?"

Tom asked if he could ask a couple more questions of me. I said he could. 

"Were you and all the ladies in one room during this event?"

"Yes."

"Were there other people present?"

"Yes."

"Japan?"

"Yes."

"Were you a Marine?"

"Yes."

"Did you win a large amount of money doing this?"

"Yes."

"I have heard the story a dozen times. Damn! Rich you are a legend in your own time." 

Sally looked at me, "I have to hear about this. You won't tell me will you?"

"I don't want to."

"Can we get Tom to tell us?"

"I guess so."

"Well I heard it went like this. Rich was a young Marine Officer stationed in Japan. There was a Dance Parlor in Tokyo that offered to pay any man that got up on the stage and screwed a record number of women in one hour a prize. The record at that time was five I believe. The winner got 360,000 Yen for each woman by tying the record, 720,000 Yen for one over the record and it kept doubling for each additional woman. Oh! The exchange rate was 360 Yen to the dollar. The kicker was that the contestant had to ejaculate on the woman's ass and then be washed off before entering the next gal. He had to make at least twenty strokes in each woman. I was told the young Marine had to get a blowjob to get it up for number eight and nine but that after the twenty strokes in number nine he had no visible ejaculate. Is that about right?"

"Yes."

"Rich. How much did you win in dollars?" 

"$19,000.00. Now Sally, do I get to ask you questions?"

"Hell no." She covered her mouth with both hands and giggled. "I knew you were a stud, but a record breaker, WOW! I'll test you tonight."

"Good luck, I was only twenty one years old and had just completed an Oriental Sex School."

Tom laughed, "I guess you guys know everyone called him "Rooster" for years."

Doris, said "Why Rooster?"

"Because the Rooster services ten to dozen hens every day."

"Why aren't you good for that many now?" Asked my wife.

"The Rooster has fifty different hens, I only have you."

"Oh!"

"Variety is the spice of life."

"If I dress up as a school girl, a slut, a cheerleader, a nurse, a French maid and a lady would you do all of us?"

"I will damned sure try."

"Hush, you guys," said Doris; "you are making this plain old housewife horny."

"I want to know what else you learned in that sex school? My dear husband."

"I think you have picked on me enough for one day."

"You know you are going to nave to tell me don't you?"

"We'll see!" 



Steamboat Willy Ch. 06



Sally and I arranged to have Tom and Doris over for dinner the following evening. After dinner we sat around the dinner table. I told them that we wanted an open discussion about the ideas and possibilities of a theme park type of attraction involving the steamboats. I said that naturally a historical theme came to mind first. I mentioned that the Seminole Indian Wars were the first event involving steamers and then the next being the Civil War. I explained that there was little gunboat action on the Ocklawaha River during the Civil War but that there were several events on the St. Johns River. None of the Union gunboats were capable of operating on the Ocklawaha because it was so shallow. The Yankees did control the St. John and captured a number of Confederate vessels on that river and in Lake George.

Tom suggested that rather than constructing a new theme park we might try a return to the early uses of the steamers. They were primarily used to transport tourists to Silver Springs from Palatka. He said that as early as the 1850s Silver Springs was a tourist attraction. After the Civil War it became a very popular trip to come by ocean going steamers from New York and Boston to Charleston and Savanna then to Palatka and from there to Silver Springs.

The possibility existed that the attraction there could bring the steamboats back.

I mentioned that in order to use the Ocklawaha River from Eureka south to Silver Springs would need to be cleared and opened. It would still be cheaper than building a new attraction. We would probably have to build docks and other facilities.

Doris said, "Tom and I discussed this after yesterday on the PRINCESS. We would be very interested in becoming involved in this project both financially and operationally if it were possible."

I looked at Sally. She smiled and nodded. "That would be an attractive possibility for us. Let's barnstorm this some more." We talked until late that night. In the morning Sally and I made a conference call to my people in Miami. We gave them all our ideas and told them they had a week to research everything and get back with us. 

We called Tom And Doris and invited them on a short cruise to the Bahamas. We told them to bring the kids and a nanny if they had one. Tom's parents were invited too. The parents declined but Tom and Doris were excited and happy to accept the offer. We had the chopper take us to the yacht then pick up Tom's party at the heliport at the club.

When they arrived Doris was laughing at something and Tom was grinning too. Sally asked what was so funny. Doris said, "It's really more cute than funny, the name on this boat."

"What name, I don't even think it has a name." She looked at me. I smiled. She walked over and pressed her chest into mine looking up in my eyes. "When did this happen?"

"The day we got married."

"What's the name?"

"I picked up a paper napkin from the coffee table and handed it to her. The napkin had a Vargas Girl picture of a sexy beautiful woman in a pin-up type pose wearing a sheer negligee. She was smiling. The name was MEAN'SALLY. Home Port- Orange Springs, Florida. She looked at me puzzled, "Mean?"

"No, that is pronounced ME an' Sally!"

"Oh! Rich, I love it." Thank you so much!" She cried a little and kissed me. "I can't believe I didn't notice it. I never saw any name on it anywhere."

"I must confess that it wasn't put on until we returned from the Bahamas."

Doris said, "Well I don't know about that but I think it is very sweet."

The two children enchanted Sally. They were adorable. The three-year-old boy was Tom III, and they called him Tommy3 or Trey. The tiny one-year-old girl was named Hilda.

Sally held Hilda and cuddled her by the hour whenever she got the chance. She got down on the floor and played with Tommy3 by the hour too. 

I went on the bridge with Tom when we were underway. He was very interested in all the high tech gadgets and equipment we had aboard. He asked the captain what our cruising speed was. He told us that we were pretty much limited to a no wake speed because of the damage we could do to the boats and docks along the riverbanks until we passed Jacksonville. After that it would depend on the seas. 

We went below and Doris greeted us with a finger to her lips. Sally was on the couch; sound asleep, with a child in each arm sleeping too. Doris pulled us off to the side. She whispered I my ear. "Rich, she wants a baby so badly she can taste it. She may be telling you she wants to wait but she really wants one very soon."

"Honey, I want one too. It is her body though. She is the boss in this case."

She reached up and kissed my cheek. "Who are you kidding, when isn't she the boss?"

"You know damned well I can't say no to her."

"Bull, you know she will never go against what you want. She told me you wanted to wait a few years before you try. Watch her with the kids and look me in the eye and tell me what she wants."

I grinned at this sweet lady. "Tell me what to do."

"What, how to make a baby?" Tom laughed, "I think he already has an idea of how to do that."

"We have been practicing every now and then."

"Ha! That is a big fib, Sally says several times a day."

I laughed, "No it isn't a fib, Several times a day IS now and then, it is not ALL the time."

Sally said, "Hey! You guys hold the noise down. You will wake my babies up."

Doris took one child and told Tom to take the other. They put them in their beds and the Nanny, Maria, watched them.

We went out on the upper stern deck and watched the sights along the river. Sally and Doris went inside and came out wearing skimpy little Bikinis. They watched the sights while Tom and I watched our wives. They were both similar in build. Other than Sally having a little larger bust they were the same size. There was no way I could believe Doris was the mother of two kids. There was not a stretch mark or any other trace of motherhood. After awhile they stretched out on some recliners and tanned. I put some lotion all over Sally's back and legs. Doris said, "Do me too."

I looked at Tom and he nodded and smiled. I rubbed the sun tan cream over her back and legs too. As I was finishing, Doris reached back and untied her top. "Get where the strap was too." She asked. I laughed and saw Sally watching me, I said, "Under the panties too?"

Mmmmm! "Maybe later." She lifted her head and looked at Sally, the two of them giggled. Sally picked up the tube of cream and handed it to Tom and said, "Get mine too." as she unfastened the back. Tom made very sure her whole back and the outsides of her breasts were covered.

Sally looked at Doris and said, "Over?"

Doris said, "Yep!" and they turned over holding the cups of the tops in place. Doris handed me the lotion and closed her eyes. I saw Sally watching me so I handed the tube to Tom. He started putting the lotion on Sally. Sally looked at me and smiled, then she looked at Tom, "Please let Rich do me." 

I moved over and took the lotion from Tom. I applied it to Sally's legs and thighs and then moved to her flat little belly, she moved her hands out of my way and the little scraps of cloth that made up her top fell off her breasts. I saw a tiny smile on her lips and applied the lotion carefully over the globes of her breasts and rubbed it in to her skin gently. 

I made sure I got good coverage on the areolas and nipples. The nipples were standing up proudly now. I moved my hands up over her shoulders and upper chest. I very carefully spread some across her forehead and cheeks. I gently kissed her lips and each nipple and heard her softly moan. I sat up and handed the tube to Tom and leaned back to watch.

Tom moved right to Doris's top and pulled it away. I saw Sally slowly turn her head to watch too. He spread the lotion on his hands and rubbed them across her lovely breasts. They were smaller than Sally's but were more cone shaped and pointed upward with her perky little nipples. Her nipples appeared to be hard and erect.

He would rub across them and press them over. They would snap right back up. I noticed he was smiling at me as he did it. He quickly covered the rest of her body. He did her chest and upper body and then went to her legs and thighs. Her legs parted slightly and he paid a lot of attention to the inner portion of her thighs. He rubbed the side of his hands hard against the crotch of her Bikini bottom many times, evoking a groan and a twitch from her each time. She smiled and looked up at him, "You are a naughty boy, now you have me all hot and bothered." 

We were startled by an announcement over a speaker saying we were going to increase our speed for a few minutes while we could. After a moment the boat begin accelerating smoothly. Tom looked at me wide eyed. 

"Wow! This baby has power to burn." The boat was running nicely now without any fuss and not much of a rooster tail. I smiled and said we were at less than half power.

"You are kidding me, right?"

I pulled out my shipboard communicator and pressed a button. The captain answered. I asked our present speed, he replied, "Twenty-two knots. There is about a five mile stretch where we can open it up if you desire."

"Go ahead and let her rip for as long as it is safe."

"Aye Aye Sir." The boat surged ahead.

"Holy Shit! We are flying, look at the rooster tail, it must be fifty feet high."

In a few minutes we slowed down. I pressed the com button again and asked what we had topped out at. I grinned and clicked off. "Our top speed was fifty two knots."

Tom just grinned and shook his head, "I've been faster on the water before but not on anything this big. What do you have 3000 horses?"

"Yep! On each side."

"Damn she is incredibly smooth, no vibration at all. How does she handle seas?"

"Pretty good. We can do thirty-five knots in eight to ten foot seas about as smooth as that was. When it gets rougher than that we have to slow down more. Twenty footers are as rough as I have ever been out in her. She is till comfortable with no pounding at ten to twelve knots. She has three types of stabilizers, all automated of course. She has Hamilton Jet Drives. They claim to have sucked in a telephone pole at high speed and she just burped a little. When they went back all they found was a huge area of shredded wood. There was no vibration but when they were able to examine the impellers they couldn't find a thing wrong." 

"I love it. The weather looks good too!"

"Yeah! They are forecasting two feet or less off shore all-day and smoother tonight. The skipper is a bit stogy and doesn't like to run fast at night. Me too!"

"Fifty knots in the dark when you don't have to is crazy."

"Well, Sally and I love to troll along weed lines off shore for dolphin. Sally simply loves to catch them. Is Dori an angler?"

"She loves to fish for bass. I don't know about deep-sea fishing. She is shaking her head, she has never been."

Sally hugged Doris, "I know she will love it, I'll teach her." They looked at each other and gently touched their lips together. Hmmmm? What was that? They looked into each other's eyes, oblivious to everything around them.

I saw Tom watching them. A small smile was on his face. I touched his arm and motioned him to follow me. I told Sally we were going to the bridge for a few minutes. I saw her nod. When we were out of their sight I said, "What is with the two of them?"

"Is Sally bi-sexual?"

"I don't really know, is Doris?"

"She has had some experience in the distant past, she liked it. But they sure look like they are hot for each other. How do you feel about it?"

I thought for a minute, "I played around with it as a kid some and enjoyed it. I haven't thought about it for a long time."

"I meant about Sally and Doris, how do you feel about them getting together."

"Tom, I really don't think it would bother me if they were up front about it. How about you?"

"I'm the same way, I've tried it but it was a while ago."

"I meant about the girls."

"I'll go with what ever makes them happy if we know up front or are there with them."

"I agree."

We went back down to find them sitting back in the lounge chairs. I suggested we needed to get out of the sun; we had a whole week of sun ahead of us. We went to the master salon and the girls went to shower off the lotion and get in something comfortable. We had a very good view out the large windows and we saw the city of Jacksonville in the distance. Tom and I shared a cold beer. Either of us were very big drinkers. I told him I had a drinking problem. I told him it only happened if I were alone and deeply depressed. I told him I wasn't a violent drunk; I just drank until I passed out.

He looked at me and grabbed my shoulder, "Rich if I ever see that coming on I'll take care of you. I really mean that. I'll try and prevent it first though." 

I looked in his eyes and saw that he was sincere about what he had said. It made me feel good. I said we needed to look after each other. He looked at me very seriously, his lower lip trembled. "Damned right Brother, we look out for each other." We shook hands. I looked up to see Sally watching us looking at each other, our right hands were joined and we each had our left hand on the other's shoulder.

Sally softly said, "Have you guys bonded?"

We both nodded. She walked to us and put her arms around both of us, gently kissing each of us on the lips. "I'm so happy." she said, ""Dori and I are the same way and we have been praying it would happen for you too. She is going to be thrilled. Tears ran from her eyes, "I love both of you. But Rich is my soul and my life, we are one."

I felt my eyes tear up and I hugged her tightly whispering that I loved her. I reached over and pulled Tom in with us. 

"Oh! My! What do we have here?"

Sally smiled at Doris, "We were missing you Dear Girl, join us in our love for each other. I was just telling the two guys that I love the two of them and I love you, but Rich is my one and only soul mate."

"Wonderful, I want to cry I am so happy. I love all of you too. I do love Tom more, I can't help it."

I smiled and said, "Great can I get you girls something to drink before lunch?"

Sally grinned, "I would like a small white wine."

Dori said, "Me too!"

I rang for the steward and placed our order also getting a beer split again between Tom and I. We talked and were brought a menu for lunch. It was simple fare, which was what we had requested for lunches. Sally ordered a turkey club sandwich and Doris thought that sounded good too. I ordered a Taco salad and Tom went with the turkey club also. We watched the ships at the Port of Jacksonville and at the Naval Base slip by and we were soon past the sprawling city. MEAN'SALLY took a turn to the east soon afterward and increased the speed. It was not too long before we were going out through the jetties that protected the entrance to the St. Johns River and were at sea. Now the speed really increased. You could feel the speed and see it but it was not at all uncomfortable.

I picked the remote control for the TV and turned it on. I clicked on the 'MEAN'SALLY' Channel. I then had a choice of watching the radar, the chart plotter showing our exact position and our planned course and estimated time of arrival, or the Telltale, which displayed our speed, course, and a myriad of other information data. Our cruising speed was forty knots. When the plates were cleared we sat and looked at each other. I decided to take the bull by the horns. We were all curious as to where we stood with each other. I was a bit uncomfortable and looked at my dear friends around the table.

"Guys I think we need to clarify what transpired here earlier. It was an earth shaking experience for me. I have never in my whole life had such an upwelling of pure love for three other people in my whole life. I felt that feeling returned to me threefold. Is that what anyone else felt?"

We all looked at each other. The all looked at me and smiled nodding their heads. 

"Great. I love all of you guys. I also feel I received a positive feeling that Doris and Sally would like to have sex with each other. I don't believe it will be the first time. Am I correct?" The girls smiled at each other. They looked at me. Sally looked a little frightened. "I got the feeling that Sally and Tom wanted to have sex too, not for the first time there too. I assume Sally still wants to make love to me. The only way I can see this can possibly work is for us to make a few unbreakable rules"

"This is just my idea, we must all agree 100 percent for this to work. These rules are open for negotiation and discussion.

Rule one. No person may be forced to do anything they do

not want to do or do not feel comfortable

with. 

Rule two. No spouse may have sex with another persons

spouse without direct permission from that

spouse just prior to the act.

Rule three. Any person having sex with another person 

must have sex with their spouse before having

sex with any other person.

Rule four. Every person must have sex with their own mate

last at every session.

The meeting is open for discussion, but first I must confess that if anyone here would have suggested that I would agree to this idea before today I would have truthfully said it was impossible. That is all have to say." I sat down. 

They all looked at each other. Tom said, "Guys, I like the rules, I can live with them. I just want to get one thing straight, must all sex be done in the presence of all the others?"

They all looked at me. "That had not occurred to me but it is a very good question. My answer is that we may pair off with the explicit agreement of the other two people."

Tom nodded. "You mean that if one wants to watch and the other doesn't it can't happen."

"Correct. Any other questions? I do have one other rule; any display of jealousy and all activity must cease until the jealous person agrees the party may continue. STOP is the magic word for everyone. OK?"

Doris stood and looked at Tom and Sally, " May I have permission from both of you to kiss Rich?"

"No." Said Sally, "the rules say I have to kiss him first. Right?"

Every one chorused, "Yes." Sally jumped up and stood in front of me. She took my face in both her hands and searched my eyes with hers. Tears dropped from her eyes. 

"Rich Darling, Are you all right with this? I don't want to do this unless you are positive. Please don't do it for just for me. I don't want this to change how you feel about me. I can't risk that. This is just sex for fun and enjoyment. It will never be making love."

"Sally, you know how much I love you, nothing can ever change that. I believe I am OK with this if I look at it as being to give both of us pleasure. I love to make you happy. I got a charge out of the enjoyment you got when Tom rubbed the oil on you earlier. I felt no jealousy, just happiness for you. When it comes to watching him penetrate you I don't know how I will react. It will be something entirely new for me. In the heat passion I should be OK. If I just sit and watch it might be hard the first time. I just don't know. I do know how to yell STOP."

"Rich, I want you to know that I will be perfectly happy to never touch another person sexually as long as I live as long as I have you."

"Listen to me girl, you are my life now, I know that before me you enjoyed many different men on a regular basis. From what you say you enjoyed the sex but you never fell in love with any of them. Is that about right? As long as you never go behind my back, or meet someone alone I will be fine with this. IF you become to attached to someone else I will make you chose or fight for you every way I can. I don't have any choice. Self-preservation is a very strong thing."

She gently pressed her lips to mine. She smiled up at me, "Now go kiss Doris while I kiss Tom."




Steamboat Willy Ch. 06



Doris smiled sweetly at me and stepped into my arms. It was a very sweet and gentle kiss. Her little tongue played sexily with mine. She rubbed her hips against my growing erection. My hands roamed over her back and cupped her ass. I glanced over and saw Sally watching me as she kissed Tom. I winked at her and stepped back. Sally stepped away from Tom too. I brushed my lips across Dori's nose and said, "Thank you Dear, it was delicious." I pulled Sally away from Tom and kissed her thoroughly. She pulled back and grinned, "Wow, Dori, you got him all hot for me. I liked that" 

Doris said, "Me too!"

I said, "Just a second, I have a call." I answered my ship's communicator and it was the second officer, He told me that the captain said there were some good-looking week lines in sight if we wanted to try for dolphin. I looked at my friends and told them what was happening, Sally rushed for the door and we all followed. I told the mate we were on our way. I grinned at Tom and Dori, "Sally would rather fish than make love." They laughed. When we got to the stern Sally was letting a line out to troll. One of the crew fixed Doris and Tom with rigs and I helped get Dori situated and her line out. 

"Look." I screamed as dolphin cut through the surface of the clear deep blue water. It smashed into Doris's bait and the line started screaming off the reel. I reached around her and helped her get the idea of how to fight him. When the fish jumped out of the water and flopped around in mid- air she squealed with joy. She was reeling like crazy and showed her that she wasn't gaining any line. When the fish stopped pulling out line I showed her how to pump and reel.

She took over and was working him in bit by bit. Then he weakened and she reeled him close to the boat. "Hold him right there. There are usually others with him." 

Sally screamed and I looked and she was grinning as she fought a fish. Tom was hooked up too. I had Doris reel her fish in and one of the crew gaffed it and swung the fish aboard. It flopped wildly about the deck spraying every thing with drops of blood. The colors of the fish were beautiful and I showed Doris how it changed colors as it slowly expired. 

Sally and Tom got theirs in about the same time. The school was still with them and I baited Dori's hook and threw the bait in amongst the school and handed the rod to her. She yipped and hung on as a dolphin tail walked across the surface. She giggled and laughed. I ran and helped Sally get her bait back in the water. She got a strike right away. Tom was back in action too. Things were fast and furious for a while and then we lost the school. 

We pulled the baits back in and looked at the fish in the fish box. There were eleven nice dolphins there. I looked at the angling team and asked if they wanted to fish some more. Every one of them shook their head, no. I called the captain and told him we had enough for now and that he did great, finding the fish for us, and giving us a good time. We headed for the lounge. I sat in a chair and Sally sat in my lap and kissed me. She said Peeuw! Your hands smell of fish. She let me get up and went to the head and washed up well.

When I returned Sally was in Tom's lap and Dori was nowhere to be seen. Sally started to get up. I held my hand up, "Stay where you are." I blew them a kiss and went in our cabin and took off my clothes, pulled the blinds and climbed in bed for a nap. I was half asleep when a warm nude body slipped in bed with me and cuddled against my back. I was sound asleep when I heard a tapping on the door and it opened. I looked up and there was Sally looking at me. She was still dressed. I looked next to me and there was a nude Doris. She giggled, "Well Sally, there was no more room in Tom's lap and you guys were smooching so much you didn't see or miss me. Rich looked comfy and I joined him. Sorry!" She put her head back down and snuggled against me.

Sally said, "No sex now. It's not time yet." Dori said, "We won't do any more than what you and Tom were doing. OK?" Sally slammed the door.

"Oh Oh Sally is pissed."

"No she isn't, she is laughing by now. You know I wouldn't do anything to hurt her. I wouldn't break the rules either. Do you want to get dressed and sneak out the other door and look in the window as see want they are up to?" I pulled her to me and kissed her for a long time. My hands rubbed gently over her whole little body. She squirmed and moved away. "Rich, you have me so damned hot I want what we can't do yet." I slapped her cute little ass, "Get dressed then girl and we will se what we see."

When Dori was dressed I just led her to the door to the salon I opened the door and walked on in. Sally and Tom sat on opposite sides of the table sipping drinks. I walked to Sally and kissed her. I noticed her eyes looked a little puffy. I lifted her to her feet and I pulled her in my arms and held her tight. "What is wrong Babe, have you been crying?"

"Yes, a little."

"Why were you crying?'

"Both of us were. I guess I started it. I thought about you in the other room in bed nude with Dori and I got terribly jealous. That was MY place; I wanted to be there. I wanted to be with you. The more I thought about it the worse I cried. Tom asked me what was wrong and I told him. He said he knew exactly how I felt."

I looked at Doris. She looked at me. I said, "Doris and I napped for most of the time. After Sally woke us up we kissed a lot, and we cuddled and necked. Neither of us penetrated the other in any way except with our tongues in the other person's mouth. That is the truth. We were both hotter than firecrackers but we obeyed the rules and stopped. If the two of you can say the same there is no harm done. Right?"

Sally smiled and said, "No harm done then."

"Let's all go change and get ready for dinner. We will meet in the main salon for Cocktails at six thirty, dinner at seven thirty. Dress tonight, because we are underway, will be informal, Shirts and jeans or shorts for the guys, ladies you can figure from there."

Sally leaned to Doris, "Shorts and tops?" Doris nodded.

Dinner was excellent and the company was wonderful. The children and Maria, the Nanny, ate with us. It is never too early to start training them by example.

After dinner we watched a pay per view on satellite TV. It was pretty good. I noticed every one getting a bit nervous and antsy. I suggested we all go to our cabins and change into nightclothes and meet in our private salon in thirty minutes.

I took a shower and shaved then turned the shower over to Sally. I slipped on sleep pants and a short terry robe and didn't look at Sally at all. I went in the salon and ordered two shakers of frozen Crème de Menthe. When the drinks arrived I put them in the freezer. I put the frosted glasses in there too. A few minutes later Tom walked in wearing a long terry robe, we eyed each other cautiously. Doris entered next. She wore a very attractive Baby Doll outfit that was hot, but not too hot. Sally arrived last; she was wearing a little baby doll outfit that was cute as hell on her. Her hair was in a ponytail. I got up and put a 'do not disturb' sign on the door and locked it. I checked that the drapes were drawn.

I said, "I will tell you guys what I would like to see." Everyone wanted to know what I wanted.

"I would like Sally and Doris to make out together. If you feel uncomfortable in front of Tom and I, it would be fine with me if the two of you went into our room and closed the door for a while first. Dori said, "That is not what I expected. What do you think Sally?"

"He surprised me too, I thought he would want to go with the sex with the spouse first routine."

I said that I thought that in this case we could dispense with that by unanimous agreement. Each of us nodded in agreement. I had moved the table to one side and placed cloth covered exercise mats on the floor. I pointed to the center of the mats and looked at the two girls. Sally looked at Tom and then at me, "Will you two entertain us next."

"Sally, I hate to be a party pooper but I am just not ready for that yet. You don't have to do this if you feel it is not fair, or any reason, or just because. OK?"

Dori looked around then at Sally, "I am very attracted to Sally, we experimented some as girls and I loved it. I loved playing with the guys too. If Sally agrees I would just like to kiss and neck with her for a while and see how it feels. You guys can do the same thing if you want." Dori giggled. Sally stepped to the mat and they kissed softly. Sally untied the little bow holding Doris's top closed. She slipped it over Dori's shoulders and threw it aside. Dori responded by removing Sally's top. They sank to their knees and Sally pressed Dori down onto her back.

They kissed and caressed each other through the thin cloth. Then Dori's hand slipped up in under Sally's chest and cupped her breast. Sally threw her head back and moaned low in her throat. She shook her head, her ponytail flying from side to side. Then she kissed Dori again and kissed down her neck to her chest. Sally pulled Dori's top free from her body and continued kissing to the girl's breasts. She held the breast with one hand and moved her mouth to slurp in the small turgid nipple. Dori jerked and her eyes opened wide.

"Wait, Stop!" Said Doris. Sally jerked back startled.

"What happened, are you OK, Sweetie? Did I hurt you?"

"No, Hell no, it felt too damned good. I had an orgasm. I liked it too damned much and it scared me. I didn't know what to think or what I was feeling." 

Sally pulled Doris to her and held her in her arms and petted her head, "Poor baby. I went too fast because it felt so damned good to me too! I loved what you did to me and I was on the edge of cuming too. Maybe we better let the boys play for a while, look they both are playing with themselves."

I said, "Sorry, you guys are so damned hot I couldn't help it."

Sally turned to me and softly said, "Please hold me." I moved to a chair and Sally sat sideways on my lap. I held her and kissed her. I glanced over and saw Doris in Tom's lap. I thought things over for a while. I said, "Excuse me guys, I want to ask Tom something." They sat up and looked at me. "Tom are you ready to watch me slip my hard thick cock in Dori's little pussy?"

"No, not really, I don't want that. I can't do that."

"Great, because I won't let you do that to Sally. OK?"

I laughed, "I sure feel better now, I guess I only want sex with my Sally. Now what are we going to do about the girls now that we have chickened out. Will they go out looking for other guys to satisfy them?"

"NO We WON"T. We talked a while ago; we weren't going to let it happen either. Maybe we might be ready in ten or fifteen years, and if so we all know the rules if we want to activate them again, none of us are ready for it now."

Sally picked up her top and handed Dori hers. I said, "Damn you girls are hot, do you think I could just neck with Dori for four or five hours?"

Sally said "I don't think so, you wouldn't last half an hour before she had you too hot to stop."

"Maybe, but I'll bet you can do it in five minutes."

Tom laughed, "Dori could have Rich totally wiped out in five minutes."

Sally said "I think she could too, why do you think I don't want her to get her hands on him. He would never want me again."

Sally turned to me and placed her forehead against mine. We had to look up into each other's eyes. She quietly said, "Lover I don't really know how to really please you in every way yet. When we have done everything a million times perfectly we can have this conversation again. Until then let's just concentrate on each other."

I looked around, "Did I just hear someone yell 'Bed time'?"

Tom said, "Yep, Me."

Sally said, "I'll second that."

Dori said, "I'll third it."

"By unanimous proclamation this meeting is adjourned."

Sally lay in bed that night and talked about the afternoon and evening. I told her I was glad we had backed out. She kissed me and she said she was glad too. She said she thought that things had just gone too fast. She said she was very fond of both Doris and Tom but that she didn't want anyone else involved that intimately in our lives right now and probably never. 

I said, "Sugar, I was trying to do what I thought would please you. Forgive me. Thank God we all came to our senses. I hope it was soon enough so that we can all remain close friends. I do love both of them, just not that way."

"I think we are all going to be fine. In a way it will relieve my mind, I was jealous of Dori and the way you looked at each other."

"I will not lie to you girl. I think Dori is one of the sweetest and sexiest girls I have ever known. I do love her, and I would do anything in the world for her. I like looking at her and admire her body and her brain. I know she loves you and so does Tom. I just don't have the burning unquenchable flame inside me that makes me want you 24/7. I don't have the overpowering need to be with her that I feel towards you. I don't have the deep desire to nurture and protect her that is embedded within me where you are concerned. She is not one with me, you are. You are my soul mate."

"I know that this is totally inadequate, but I feel exactly like that about you my love. I am unbelievably happy with you my husband but I do want something from you that I now find is missing in my life. I only recently found out how much I want that."

"Anything Sally, anything in my power."

"Your permission to go off the pill. I want your baby. I need your baby; I haven't been around small children for a very long time. Being with Dori and Tom's kids awakened my maternal instincts I guess. I didn't know they were so powerful. It is like I can think of nothing else. I know you aren't ready for that yet so I am begging you, please let me have your baby soon."

"Throw them overboard in the morning."

"What?"

"The damned pills."

"Now?"

"Yep! Toss 'em. You just made me very happy sweet girl, very happy. How long does it take before they loose their effect?"

"Who cares, we can just practice five or six times a day until we get it right."

"Maybe I should talk to Tom and see if he can help, I'm not sure I can hack five times a day."

"You don't get any help, this you have to do for your self."

"We can put a big cork in you and hold you upside down and shake you."

"Giggle, that sounds like fun. I never heard cock pronounced that way before, but as long as it's yours I don't care how you say it."

The rest of the week was delightful. Dori was ecstatic about Sally going off the pill. Tom said, "Yeah! She can't stand to see her friend walking around with out a care in the world, no squalling brats to be underfoot all the time for the next eighteen years, no diapers to change, she wants to get even." 

Sally said, "Has she told you she wants to be pregnant with me? Dori is going off the pill with me."

Tom looked at his wife, "True?"

"No, but I like the idea. I like it a lot." Tom grinned and said, "Fine by me. I'll get to see this one born. I missed the last two. I love it when Dori is pregnant, especially months four through eight and a half. She is so beautiful and she is insatiable, she just stays horny."

I grinned, "That sounds like fun, I haven't heard of that fringe benefit before. "

"You have to watch them though, Doris gets so hot sometimes I am afraid she will grab the postman or some poor guy jogging down the street, and drag him in the house, they don't have to worry because they are already pregnant."

"Tom, you know better than that, no other man has ever screwed me since we were married. Not even when I was pregnant and you were at sea, I would never do that. Never." Tears ran from her cheeks. Tom hurried to her a hugged her and assured her that he was only teasing and knew she was true to him.

I said, "Hey Dori! Sally and I knew he was only teasing we believe you. You could never do that."

She sniffled and looked at us. "I have to confess, I did feel like doing that, but I did my vibrator instead."

Tom looked at her wide-eyed, "I never knew you have a vibrator."

"I had to do something when you were gone for 270 days at a time. Some of the wives cheated, some of them did each other, I did my vibrator and pretended it was you."

"I did my hand and thought of you Dori, I love you."

Sally laughed, "Will you guys please stop all this disgusting sex talk, you are making poor Rich blush."

Back in Florida a month later we had a meeting of my people from Miami and those of us at the boat yard. We met in town at a large hotel. We reserved rooms for everyone and also rented a large conference suite with a meeting room and a dozen offices completely equipped. We had passed on Tom's idea for hooking up with the attraction at Silver Springs. My staff had investigated it and had even met with their people and had very productive preliminary talks.

The people from the attraction were excited about the idea because they would essentially be getting another attraction with little outlay in money. The facilities we would need would be built by us, deeded to them and leased back to us for a dollar a year on a long-term deal.

The people from The Silver River Museum & Environmental Center might want the same thing to tie into the Frontier Village exhibit.

The State of Florida was in favor of our plan to restore the Ocklawaha River to late 1800s condition and maintain it that way at no cost to the State. The environmentalists loved the idea of a nonpolluting attraction and the restoration of the river. Talks and negotiation seemed to drag on.

Thirty-four people from the State and from the Silver Springs Attraction and the Silver River Museum & Environmental Center were invited on a short luncheon cruise aboard the PRINCESS escorted by a group from the newly formed Murphy & Thompson Steamboat Lines. The trip was a resounding success. Everyone loved the cruise and the PRINCESS. Everyone was excited and wanted us to get things going.

Meanwhile we were in negotiations with the State regarding the locks on the Cross Florida Barge Canal. We had briefly talked with one person there but were now trying to work out a contract where we would fund the upkeep and pay for the locks to be operated and to agree with a schedule we would need. The locks would be needed at least once or twice on the days we had trips going from Palatka to Silver Springs and back with the PRINCESS. WILLY would probably operate twice a day on short trips from Silver Springs.

While we were in one of the meetings my satellite phone vibrated and I excused myself to answer it. It was Marge in Miami; there was a crisis in Iraq she said required my attention. It seemed some insurgents were holding six or seven Murphy Construction Company men hostage. The Al-Quida would only negotiate with me. The Gulfstream V was getting ready to leave to pick me up. I told Marge to pack me a bag from what was in the apartment and have it sent to meet me. I hurried back to the meeting and told everyone I had an emergency and that I would have to leave. I pulled Sally aside and gave her a quick briefing on what was going down and told her make any decisions we needed made. I heard a helicopter outside. I kissed her, told her I loved her, and would call later, and ran out to find the chopper. We were climbing out on course when my sat. phone rang. It was Sally, she was crying. "Rich, don't do this to me. Please come back. I don't want you to go over there. I know how you are; you will charge in and try to rescue them all by yourself. Please, I was going to tell you tonight, you may be going to be a daddy, I am two days late."

"What! Are you sure?"

"No, I'm not sure. I'll stop by a store as soon as I can and get an IPT."




Steamboat Willy Ch. 06



"Call me when you find out anything."

"No, I won't call you. I am not going to tell you until you get home."

"Are you kidding me?" 

"No! I won't tell you until you get back home to me. Hurry home if you are interested in knowing."

"I gonna paddle your little butt when I get my hands on you."

"When will that be?" 

"God baby, I just don't know. I don't want to go. Those are MY guys in deep trouble over there. I have to go. I have no choice if I am going to live with myself. Please don't be angry with me. I love you but I must do this if I want to call myself a man."

"Sob! Oh Baby, I know! I know the kind of man you are. I just can't live with out you any more. I'll give you a week, and then I am coming after you. I mean that, seven days, then start looking for me. I'll be there."

"NO! Honey please stay home, Please don't come looking for me. I need to know you are safe at home. I have to be able to concentrate on what I am doing."

"Ok, Big guy! If I go two days with out hearing from you I am on my way, is that clear?"

"Make it a week. OK."

"Oh God! It gets worse and worse! You just get your ass home. I will make you no promises. You just do what you have to do. I will do what I must do."

"Listen Sally, let me get to work, I need to call people. I need more information. I hope to get this resolved before I get there so I can turn around and come home. See if you can stay with Dori and Tom tonight I'll call as soon as I can. I love you, you are my life."

I fired up my laptop and pulled up a couple of files. I got a few quick answers from it. I tried another link and got a little more information. Then I tried a guy who owed me big time. He said, "Rich, I have been looking for you to call. I have a little something for you. Your guys are all OK. The bad guys are after money. Can we deal?"

"You know better than that, if we deal here they will grab some one else tomorrow. Right!"

"Yeah I guess so."

"You know I am right! You can't negotiate with those people; they have no ethics. Can you communicate with them?"

"Yes, more or less directly."

"OK. Tell them I will commit one hundred million of my own money to achieving the release of my men. Not one cent for ransom but what ever it takes to hire or buy traitors or information to bring me he and his people dead or alive. No games, no bargaining. Give my people up alive and well, or prepare to die."

"Damn, that doesn't leave any wiggle room."

"No, I am shipping a hit team from Israel who can pass as Iraqis. They are very good. Tell their leader I will demonstrate my power if he desires. Tell him I have intelligence asset's that can pin point him at any time.

"Tell him I know the exact location of both of his wives and of his seven children. I have his father and mother pinpointed in Saudi. His grand parents are also easy targets. I need but raise one finger and they all die. Painfully! Slowly. Please pass that along and advise him that I have no constraints upon me. The United States Government has no control over my actions. I need a reply in one hour."

I stopped my pacing up and down the aisle between the seats in the cabin, twenty-five paces each way and I sat in my seat. I had given it my best shot. I thought about Sally, my darling wife. As I relate this story to you I am constantly reminded of my inadequacies in describing her persona. She is a vibrant young woman. She has a beautiful body and a wonderful personality. She exudes confidence and sexiness. She has a smile that gives most men instant arousals. There are few men who could resist her advances. To the best of my knowledge, I am the only man on whom she unleashes the full force of her smile. It stops me in my tracks, her smile. My resistance melts instantly. She knows exactly how to do it too.

Her happiness and energy are irresistible too. I am the worlds luckiest man it be married to her. I need to get back to her. I know there are many men who are way more handsome and sexy than I who desire her.

My phone vibrated. It was my contact. He advised me he had passed my message to their leader. I said, "Tell him I will demonstrate my ability to him in thirty minutes, his youngest son will be shot in the hips by a silenced bullet a close range. The child's survival is questionable. The clock starts now."

Twenty-two minutes later I received a message that the prisoners had been released. I ordered our course reversed.

Ten minutes later my contact was on the sat. phone again. He said that the man's wife had called and told him the Iraqi Police had been in his house with his wife and son. They had received a phone call then apologized to her and left the house.

I picked up my phone and hit speed dial #1. Sally answered instantly. I said, "Sally, Sweetheart, I have some bad news for you."

"Oh no! What now!" 

"You have to cancel your dates for tonight, its all over, I'm on my way home."

"What? I can't do that. Just hurry home, Rich. Give me your ETA and I'll meet you at the airport."

"Our ETA is six fifteen."

"Rich, I am so happy you are coming home to me. I would never have believed I could miss anyone so damned much. I have been crying ever since you left. Hurry back to me."

When I stepped out of the door I saw her, She was running across the tarmac. As I hit the deck at the bottom of the stairs she slowed only a little as she crashed into my chest. Her arms were around my neck and her lips crushed against mine. I will never forget how she looked running towards me. She wore white jeans, yellow sneakers with white socks and a yellow-cropped top. Her hair was in a ponytail out the back of a yellow ball cap. God, she looked about eighteen years old, absolutly adorable. We stood holding each other and kissing for a long time.

She pulled back and smiled, "I can't believe you are home. How did you do it?"

We walked toward the helicopter and I gave her a quick idea of how things went. She hugged my arm tightly as we lifted off. She said, "We are going to stop by the Club for a while before we go home. OK?"

"Fine, what's going on?"

"Dori and Tom are meeting us there. It is Bar-B-Que Hoedown Night at the Club. We can eat something and dance a little before we go home. It'll be fun."

"Sounds good to me as long as you don't leave my sight. Well?"

"Well what?"

"Well are you pregnant?"

"Oh! Dear God, I forgot, YES! We are pregnant. I have a doctors appointment in four days to verify it, but the IPT says yes."

I looked in her eyes, "Are you happy?" Her blue eyes looked deep into mine.

"Oh! God yes! I couldn't be any happier! This is my dream, to be carrying my sweet husband's baby. To be joined in the beautiful act of creating a new person who will be part of both of us fills me with wonder and amazement. My love for you is unbounded and is limitless. I just can't tell you what you mean to me."

A few minutes later we landed at the Club. We went to her office and I washed my face and combed my hair. Sally had clean jeans and a shirt for me. She brought my old cowboy boots too. They were super comfortable. They were scuffed here and there and rundown in the heels a little. They were originally custom-made boots that were very expensive when new. She knew I loved to wear them. We walked into the dinning room and were amazed at the transformation. It looked like a rustic western Saloon or dance hall. A country band was playing and I had to grin at my lovely wife. Then I heard a voice scream, "Richey! And a warm little body flew into my arms. The scrunched up face shed tears and the arms held me tight. After a deep shuddering sob she looked up at me. Dori! She kissed me hard then sort of melted against me.

She looked up at me and said, "You had Sally and I mad, scared and worried silly. How could you do that to us? Tommy was trying to calm us down. He would get me calm and then I would look at Sally and go all to pieces again. What would we do without you? Sometimes Sally would just sit and stare at nothing and with big tears running down her cheeks. It about broke my heart to see her, what could we do?"

"Hey, I am sorry, I just had to go, luckily I got it all resolved before we got half way there. My company has contingency plans for almost every possible thing that could go wrong. In this matter the plan says I go toward the site of the incident as soon as possible, meanwhile I start playing my cards. We have resources we can call on all over the world. It takes time to get them on line and functioning. I could have been flying into danger. There is no way in hell I would let Sally go with me."

Dori was still in my arms; Tom and Sally stood watching as I held her. She looked up at me and sniffled. She kissed the corner of my mouth and turned and walked to Sally. She looked at Sally, "What in the hell are we going to do with him?"

"Dori, I guess that we just have to keep loving him. I know I can never stop loving him." 

We got a table and I ordered a Captain Morgan and water. Sally joined me. Tom and Doris had Margaritas. Dinner was buffet style so we went through the line. I loaded up on the baby back ribs. Everything looked good. It was. After dinner I got them to fill me in on the meeting. They said everything went on smoothly. There were no problems. Everyone basically agreed and the staff people were working to draw up tentative contracts.

When we finished dinner Tom asked Sally to dance. Dori looked at me and pouted. "Don't you want to dance with me?" I said, "Sure Sweetie, I would love to dance with you. We walked out on the dance floor and she stepped into my arms. It was a slow dreamy love song. Her head was on my shoulder. Her hair smelled delightful. I glanced at Sally and saw she was watching me. I mouthed 'I love you', and she smiled and mouthed 'I love you too!' Dori pulled back a bit and looked up at me. "You aren't flirting with another girl while you are dancing with me are you?"

"I sure am, I was telling my sweet wife I love her."

She smiled up at me, "Then I forgive you. I wish someone loved me like that."

"I'm sure Tom loves you."

"Not really."

"Are you serious?"

"Just forget I said anything, please."

The song ended and Doris turned and walked away. I followed her as she stepped out onto the balcony and put her hands on the railing. I touched her shoulder, "Sweetheart, please talk to me. Why are you crying?"

She turned to me, "Tom and I are getting a divorce. It is so sad for the kids. They don't realize anything yet." 

"May I ask what happened, I thought you guys were in love."

"We drifted apart I guess. He has someone else he wants to be with. I still care about him a lot. It is not the sexual kind of love anymore. He is more like a brother."

"Wow! From the way you guys acted on our short cruise I thought you were in love with each other."

"No, we were trying to put up a good front. I don't interest Tom sexually any more. I think you turned him on more than I did."

"What?" I saw a movement out of the side of my eye; it was Sally and Tom. I was holding Dori's hands. I looked back at Dori, "Does Sally know?"

"Yes she does." She looked at Sally and Tom, "I told Rich about our divorce. We had him fooled."

"Dori! What are you going to do? Where will you go? Sally and I don't want you to leave us. Tom either."

Tom said, "Hey, I not going anywhere, I have to be near my kids, I love them very much. Dori will stay with my folks for the time being. They love her and the kids. I will find an apartment for now. I want to be with my friend."

I looked at Tom and put my hand out, we shook hands and he smiled, "I'm so glad you and Sally are here for Dori. She needs you guys. If Dori can stay with you guys here until she is ready to go home I would appreciate it. Good, I love you all of you." I saw tears in his eyes as he turned and walked away.

"Dori, do you know his 'friend'?"

"Yes, I know him quite well. He was Tom's second in command on the destroyer. He is a very nice man, I like him a lot."

"Wow, that is something to think about,"

"I want Tom to be happy and to be able to see his children. I haven't decided exactly what to do."

"Sally said, "Well I know what you are going to do until you make up your mind. You are going to come and live with Rich and I. We have plenty of room. I have been after him to add on another wing anyway." 

"Sally you know why I can't do that. I just couldn't do that."

I said, "Why not, we would both love to have you with us. You will be free to do what you want but will always have a home with us. Right, Sally?"

"Yes, Rich is right. You belong with us. Tom loves us and can see the kids anytime he wants to. What is the problem?"

I said, "Well, I sure don't know. What is the problem, Sally?"

"Rich, Dori has fallen in love with you."

"What?" I looked at each of them. Sally smiled and nodded. Dori looked down at her folded hands. I stepped to Dori and lifted her to stand before me. "Dori, you make me so damned proud that you feel that way about me. I do love you too. And to be honest with you, not as a sister either. I have to tell you that Sally is my soul mate and will always be my true love as long as she lives. I must defer in this matter to what Sally wants to do. I don't really think it will be a problem for me because I will never cheat on Sally, never."

Sally grinned, "It is settled then, you and the kids move in with us. You and I will go look for a new doublewide for you to join on to our house. That way you can be as much a part of us as you want or a private as you want. Will your Nanny move with you."

"Yes, she would never leave me. She loves the kids as much as I do. She lost her husband and children in an accident and will never look at another man. She is part of my family."

Sally hugged Dori and kissed her with tears in her eyes, "Honey, we love you too! Both of us do. If you want to be part of our family we welcome you with open arms. We don't want to loose you."

"Sally, I love your idea, Tom and I talked it over and we both want to remain active in the steamboat business. We are both still friends. He is embarrassed to bring Frank, his friend, around his kids. I want him to feel free to do that. If the man is his significant 'other', he should be proud of him." He won't bring Frank around his Mom and Tommy either."

Sally grinned, "After things get settled down we will invite the two of them for dinner. Then a few weeks later we will invite yours too."

Dori and I both laughed at how devious Sally was. I asked, "Do you maneuver me around that way too?" Sally looked at me, "No, dearest man, I never do that, never." She stood and started to walk away. I gently grabbed her wrist and pulled her to me and down on my lap. I softly turned her face towards me. Her blue eyes were full of tears.

I kissed her tenderly and said, "Don't cry baby. I know you twist me around your finger to get what you want. I love it, I expect it, but if it was something really important that I really didn't approve of it probably wouldn't work." 

"I know that, dear. And I know when you get your back up I must provide solid reasoning to change your mind. Then most of the times when I think about it and sort out my ideas I find out you are right. If you want, I will stop using my feminine wiles to try and get my way." 

"No, I always enjoy your sweet wiles. I will tell you if I think you are going too far, but I don't know what too much of you is. Listen, guys! I am giving out. I want to go home. Dori you have several options, come home with Sally and I, or go to Tommie's place. We can have the chopper take us home and you can use our car to go where ever you want or you can go on the whirlybird with us."

"I think I'll call and tell them I am going home with you two."

Forty minutes later we were home and Sally and Dori went to our room to shower and change. I fixed each of us a small Brandy and sat and waited for them. I fell asleep. I awoke with a start. I looked around and found them asleep and cuddled together in the guest bedroom. I was pissed. I went to the master bedroom and locked the door and went to sleep. 

Later that night I heard the doorknob rattle and then a soft knocking. I turned over and went back to sleep. I awoke early in the morning and made coffee. I put a pan full of hash browns on the stove and some frozen biscuits in the oven. I laid out some link sausages and some eggs. I sat at the table and sipped some coffee.

Sally and Dori walked in about a half an hour later. They didn't want to face me. Sally walked to me and said, "I'm sorry. You are angry aren't you?"

"Yeah! Somewhat."

"Dori needed some comforting last night."

"So! Just because I have a cock I can't give or help give comfort, or is that all she got?"

"Rich, you are jealous!"

"Sure I am, I was ignored and shut out of your lives. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't like that very much. I might have been OK with it if you had said something, I don't know, but at least I could have been advised about what was going on."

Doris was crying now, "Rich, we didn't plan on that happening, we talked a bit and fell asleep. The last thing in the world we would want would be to hurt or upset you in any way. We both love you very much. If I am the cause I am out of here. I won't do this to you guys."

"Doris, I don't want you to leave, these thing are going to happen in any new relationship. Things will work out I'm sure. Now! How do you want your eggs."

"Cooked, on a plate with all that good smelling stuff. Any way is OK."

"OK girl, here you go, two eggs scrambled, Sausage, hash browns and biscuits. That will be one kiss on the lips please. Mmmmm. Thank you. What will you have Sally, dear?"

Sally placed her order and was served a few minutes later. She paid with a kiss plus an extra kiss for a tip.

I fixed mine and joined them.

I told them I wanted to go check on the PRINCESS and WILLY and they wanted to go too. Instead I sent them off to look at mobile homes. The boats were just fine. Minor glitches were being fixed and a few improvements were being made.

Tom showed up with his friend Frank. Frank seemed to be a very nice guy. Nothing was effeminate about either guy. Who can tell? I gave them the task of working up an estimate of cost and time to open the river back up to steamboat traffic. I told them to let us know what they would need to do the job. I suggested a good surveyors GPS unit and a boat were starters. They laughed and agreed with me. I told them to investigate side-scanning sonar; it would be a helpful tool.

There were about fifty-one miles of river to check out. I told them that I suspected that no one had any good accurate information they could use. I knew the information the State had was decades old. The idea I had was that they needed a stable platform, such as a pontoon boat with high powered trolling motors fore and aft, and an outboard on the stern. Retractable sonar head amidships. The GPS and several sonar units would all tied together electronically and sending data to a computer. 

They would need several strong young guys with chain saws and axes to get them through some parts. They would probably need a diver or two on a small workboat with winches and a small crane. They would have to get permits from the State to cut anything. Lots of fun work."

The two ex-naval officers were grinning from ear to ear to have something constructive to do.

I went home and fixed myself a tuna sandwich and a lemonade. It hit the spot. I watched the noon news and things seemed quiet. I moved to my recliner and took a nap.

I was awakened by soft sweet lips against mine. Sally pressed her lips to mine then moved aside and Dori kissed me too. It is a delightful way to wake up. They were both excited that they had found the perfect mobile home. The installers would be out tomorrow to see where we wanted it put. They had found the model they liked and discovered that the dealer had another one in stock ready to go. It even had colors they liked better than the model home. The exterior matched our house too! They also found out that if we joined the three mobile homes together with covered walkways they would be considered as one home for zoning purposes.




Steamboat Willy Ch. 07



Hi! My name is Sally Murphy; my husband Richmond Murphy has been relating this story up to now. He says he doesn't really understand a lot of what happened to us and thinks I can tell the story more clearly.

First I need to explain the relationship between myself and Rich, and our lover Doris. I met Rich by accident over a year ago. I instantly fell in love with the man. He was a bit older but in super condition. He was everything I ever dreamed of in a mate. He is strong, handsome, and gentle but tough as nails. I soon learned he was also a truly caring and sweet guy. It wasn't long before I knew he was the only man I would ever love.

He helped me bring my father's dream to life. We dated a few times and I was completely and totally in love with him. He was kind and considerate, a true gentleman. I also learned he was capable of protecting me with violence if the need arose.

I was worried to death about how he would feel about me when he learned that I had been a very high priced escort for many years. I had planned to quit for quite a while and was almost completely out when he found out about it. He didn't handle it well at first then he told me he loved me and that the past would stay in the past. After we were married I learned he was super wealthy and owned and ran the second largest construction company in the country.

We were at the club one night and I ran into Tom Bernhard, a young man I had dated about ten years ago. He is the son of one of my long time clients. I danced with him and caught up on old times with him. I was afraid to tell Rich about him so I said nothing. That was wrong. 

I had invited him to go on a test run on the PRINCESS the next day. Rich saw him and didn't say a word, he just had the other boat that was with us pick him up and he went home. I figured out he was pissed. I really couldn't blame him. I got him on the cell phone and told him I loved only him and that I would be home soon. I took Tom with me and we told Rich the whole story. He was OK with it because he had figured it was something like what it was. 

We met Tom's wife the next day. It turned out she was an old schoolmate of mine who I had liked a lot. Doris and I had even experimented with sex for a while as teens, now she was married with two kids. We quickly became fast friends again. The four of us became very close. I had sensed that all was not right in Dori's marriage and they soon got divorced. In the mean time she fell heard over heels in love with Rich, my husband. She made no secret about it from me, but she never told Rich or made any move on him. We both loved and admired him and worked things out so she came to live with us.

Dori became our lover. Rich and I both love her very much and she and her two kids are now part of our family. We all know there is no way she can marry us so we just pledged ourselves to each other. 

Dori and I go shopping together a lot. We each try to find things for the other. One day we were heading home from Ocala and decided to stop for a quick beer for Dori at a tavern along the way. Being pregnant I just had lemonade. Dori is absolutely gorgeous and I am ok; I wasn't showing yet. Naturally some guys started to hit on us. We talked with two really big guys. We told them upfront we were married. They flirted with us outrageously and Dori and I laughed at them. We told them we were very, very happily married. 

Somehow it came out that we both had the same husband. They insisted that it was not fair that one guy should have two of the most beautiful girls in the world. I said, "Hey! Who said life was fair?"

Rich was in Washington on business that day so I looked at Dori and said it was time for us to go. The guys said they wanted us to stay. I looked at both of them, "Listen, you are probably both very nice guys but we are both in love with our man and will never cheat on him. You really don't want him mad at you so please back off."

The biggest on laughed and said, "Shit, there are only about two or three guys in the whole world I am scared of. Moondog there is the same way. He doesn't frighten us one bit."

"Then you don't know Richmond Murphy."

"Rich Murphy?" They looked at each other. Moondog said, "The Boss, oh shit."

The big guy grinned at us. "You found the one guy we won't mess with. We apologize if we embarrassed you ladies. We meant no harm. When you see Rich tell him Moondog and Targon said 'Hello!' We will be in and out of here for a few days if he wants us." 

I reached in my purse and found my phone. I pressed 1. Rich answered right away. I asked if he could talk. He said he could. I handed the phone to Targon. 

"Boss, this is Targon and Moondog is with me. We was lookin' ta see if we could work for you. We are both out of the Navy now. Well, sir, we were in a bar and saw two beautiful girls and tried to hit on them. Yes Sir, that is the two." He grinned and listened. "Yes Sir." He handed the phone back to me.

Rich said, "Damn! Can't I leave the two of you alone for a day with out you hanging out in raunchy bars? Please go home, I love you with all my heart, I miss you Sally, and I'll be home in a few hours. Let me say 'hello' to Dori, I love you." I grinned and gave the phone to Dori. She smiled as he talked to her. She closed her eyes and grinned. "Yes, Dear, I love you too. Good bye." 

Dori and I hugged and kissed each other. We each shed a tear or two and looked in each other's eyes. I said, "Honey I know just how you feel, I tingle at the sound of his voice too. Damn! I love that man." Targon looked at us, "Your man is one hell of a guy, we served with him in the Navy. His word is gold. If he told me the Battleship Missouri was coming up the creek outside I would grab my camera and run like hell to see it. I KNOW it would be there. He knows everybody. They tell a story about him in Rome Italy a few years ago. It seems an Italian tour guide was pointing out things on the Vatican when two men stepped out on a balcony and waved to the crowd. One of the tourists asked the guide who they were. The guide replied, "The guy on the right is Rich Murphy, I don't know who the guy in the funny hat is." Dori and I laughed. We waved at the guys and walked out of the bar. We laughed again and giggled all the way home. Dori giggled, "The guide knew Rich but didn't know the Pope? That is some story. Do you think it's true?"

We had just finished feeding Tommy3 and Hilda when we heard the helicopter land. Rich was in the door a minute later. Rich picked me up and kissed me for a long time, and then he kissed Dori the same way. Then he kissed and hugged the kids. They both loved him very much.

Rich went in and changed then came out in a T-shirt and shorts. He fixed drinks and we sat and talked for a while. He wanted to know what we were doing in a bar in the middle of the day. 

Dori said, "Our hubby was away so we went out to play. Nobody would play with us though. We do want to know if you were ever in Rome and met the Pope?"

Rich laughed, "Yeah! I met the Pope when we were doing some remodeling there at the Vatican. If Moondog and Targon were the best you could do; you guys must be really desperately horny and must not be getting enough at home."

Then he got a serious look on his face. "Is that right? Am I able to keep both of you satisfied and happy?"

Both of us yelled, "Yes, you keep us happy as can be."

He looked at each of us, "Sally are you content with the amount of loving you are getting? How about you, Dori? Are you getting enough?"

Dori stood and walked to him, she kissed him on the lips, "Sweetheart, I have never in my life been so happy and content with the loving I get from you, Rich. It is more than I ever got before, and probably more than I need to be happy, but I will never turn any of your loving down." I hurried to kiss him too, "Hey, I love our sex life, I couldn't be happier or more content. I think our sex has gotten better since Dori moved in with us. We promise to tell you if we need more, OK?"

"Do you realize that Tom and I averaged about twice a week at the most after a year or two? With you Rich, it is more like eight or ten times a week. Right Sally?"

"Yes, I have never had this much before. But I am not complaining. I love it."

"OH! I am not complaining either, I love it too!" We looked at each other and grinned, and then we looked at Rich. "Let's go to bed right now."

That is how things went in our life; most of it was spent with Rich loving us. And with us loving Rich. It was the best.

The next evening Dori walked in before dinner crying. She said Tom had called and wanted to get back with her. He wanted to be a family again with the children. Rich held her in his arms and petted her head. "Please don't cry Dori. Tell us what happened." She lifted her head and looked at him. "Tom and Frank had a fuss and Tom wants to come home and start over again. He says it will be the best thing for the kids." I want to stay where I am, the children are very happy, Maria loves it here, she has her vegetable garden out back and loves the house." She looked at me and then at Rich, "Please don't make me go. I love it here. I am so happy here."

Rich pulled Dori into his lap and held her. He said, "First, Tom and Frank may have just had a lover's quarrel they may patch things up and get back together. Second, let some time pass, tell him you have a lot to think about. How do you know he won't find another guy he wants to be with? Third, Were they cheating on each other? That opens up a big health problem for both you and the kids. Fourth, what about your feelings, what do you want to do? Do you want to go back with him? We want you to do what is best for you. I think Sally will agree that your happiness is the key to how happy your kids will be. If you are miserable living with their father they will sense it and be frightened. Dori, you know that Sally and I love you very, very much, and it will break our hearts if you leave us. But we can live with that if you will be happy. We just want you to be happy."

Dori looked at Rich with tears running from her eyes. "I want to be with Sally and you. That's all I want."

I said, "Doris, Girl, listen to me, your divorce is final, you have custody of the children. You are in the driver's seat, now drive, girl. Go where you want to go."

She looked at me, "You are right! I really need to think about this very hard."

Rich kissed her gently, "Sweetie this is nothing that has to be rushed, take your time and think this through. Tom may very well solve this for you before you have to make a decision."

At the last meeting of the Murphy and Thompson Steamboat Lines we all agreed to start construction on two more boats. One launch like WILLY and one the size of the PRINCESS. Rich was busy getting the projects started. Lots of groundwork had to be done. We had never started from scratch before. My father had everything laid out for us. Now we had to figure it all out. Rich worked it all out pretty fast and he had the layout for the launch completed. He helped erect the stem and the sternpost while his dad and his uncle got the keel timbers ready. Rich and I got busy with our axes and adzes and were making the wood chips fly. We could each do two or three ribs in a day.

Dori was a big help in that she took over running both the houses. She hired Jeb's girlfriend, Helga to help on a full time basis. With two large mobile homes and four adults and two kids just laundry was a chore. Dori also found our Helga's mother was a retired professional cook. She came to work for us too and cooked the evening meal for us during the week. It got to where we would much rather eat at home than go out. She was a very good cook.

Then one day Rich was in town getting materials and looking at an old steam engine someone had for sale. Dori and I were walking to our house from hers after putting the children down for their nap. We saw a pick up truck pull in our drive. Moondog and Targon got out and waved to us. The walked to them and told them Rich wouldn't be home until that afternoon. They said they really wanted to see the steamboats. We told Maria that we were going down to the dock. They followed us in our Jeep to the dock. WILLY had just come in from a short run helping the crew clearing the river. The steam was still up so we asked if they would like to take short ride. Every thing went well until we were turning around to go back. There was a terrible noise from the stern and the wheel stopped turning. I ran back from the helm and looked around the paddle shroud and saw a piece of driftwood jammed in the wheel. It looked as if the wheel had jumped and broken out of its bearings.

I got the men to put out an anchor. We sat and looked at each other. "I said this is not good, our cell phones don't work here. I looked at my phone; it said 'No Service'. No one would be looking for us until Rich got home.

I wasn't feeling well. I had had a bad bout with morning sickness that day. Usually I got off very light and just had a little nausea in the morning, that day I had vomited a lot. I was feeling queasy gain. The guys handed me a beer and I washed my mouth out with it. They had a cooler full of beer with them. I got sick on my stomach again. I think it was because I was frightened about how Rich would react to us being in the boat alone with the two guys.

It was late afternoon when we saw a boat coming. When it got closer I recognized it as my pontoon boat. Rich and Jeb were aboard. I was crying for joy to see them. Rich's face looked very grim. He pulled in astern of the WILLY and walked to the bow to look at the paddle wheel. He climbed down on the wheel and kicked the driftwood away. He kicked at it for a while before it fell away. 

He climbed back aboard the pontoon boat and dug around in a toolbox. He came up with a wrench and a crowbar. He disappeared back into the wheel. Because of the shroud covering the front half of the paddles we could not see him. He came out and asked Jeb to get him all the polypropylene rope he could find. Rich took the rope and disappeared again. It was nearly dark when he came up again.

Rich yelled at Moondog to get a tow role ready. They rigged a towrope between the two boats and Rich yelled for the guys to get the anchor in. Rich yelled that he wanted the towrope short so we could make the turns. He still had not said a word to Dori or I. I looked at Dori, she was sniffling and tears ran down her cheeks. I was getting more upset as time went on. 

It was almost dark before we saw the dock. Rich had Jeb drop off the towline. He circled the pontoon boat around and came up along side us. He and Jeb rigged lines to lash the pontoon along side WILLY. He then eased us in along side the dock. Moondog and Targon jumped on the dock and secured WILLY. Rich and Jeb cast off the lines joining the two boats and they moved the pontoon boat ahead and secured it. Rich climbed up on the dock and walked to help Dori and I from the boat. I was not feeling well and just sat in my seat. Moondog said, "Miss Sally ain't feelin' well, she been sick all afternoon." Rich jumped down and picked me up. He carried me up the steps to the dock. He gently kissed my lips and I started balling. When I finally stopped crying he kissed me again. "Are you feeling better now?" he asked. I nodded. He looked at Dori, "Are you OK?"

She smiled a little smile and nodded. "I'm fine now that we are home with you." 

Moondog and Targon were standing watching Rich very carefully. He glared at them and then looked At Dori. He looked down at me. "Shit! What the hell am I going to do with you two girls? You two just keep chasing Moondog and Targon all over the place. Lucky for you they are gentlemen. I guess both of you will have to be punished. That means spankings for both of you, with panties off too!" 

I said, "Oh! No! Not that. Please not that!" I looked at Dori and giggled. "I told you how mean he is when he punishes you."

"Yes you did, I guess begging won't help will it?"

I laughed, "No, begging won't work, he won't punish you unless you are a very bad little girl."

Targon looked puzzled. "Sir, Boss, it wasn't their fault we broke down and they wasn't chasing us. We was.. .. .. Ah, no body chased anybody. Sir!" 

"Well, you guys used to guard Ambassadors and other big wheels, do you think you could keep these girls out of trouble?"

"Yes Sir, we could do that."

"Fine, call me in the morning."

Rich carried me to the Jeep and Dori opened the door so he could slip me in the seat. Rich got in to drive and Dori got in back but leaned forward and put her hand on my brow. "Oh! You are hot, you have a fever." Rich reached over and felt me too. 

Rich looked at Dori, "I'm heading for the hospital emergency room. We can't mess around with her being pregnant. Wait!" 

He pulled over and pulled out his satellite phone. He hit a speed dial number. "Is the Skipper aboard? Fine get him on the line. Hey, I have an emergency is the pilot aboard? Where is he? Great divert him to our house. Miss Sally is running a high fever and I am worried sick. Tell the pilot we will be heading for the hospital as soon as he gets here." Rich handed Dori the phone. "Get information and get the number for the hospital E-room, tell them we will be arriving by chopper. We will call them with an ETA when we have one, give them a briefing on Sally's condition. Thanks Darling! If you have a chance call Maria and tell her what is going on."

I fell asleep and woke up in the hospital. I looked and saw Dori crying in a chair. "Dori, please don't cry. Where is Rich?"

"Rich is talking with the doctor. He should be back soon, how do you feel?"

"I feel a little better. What is wrong with me?"

"Honey, we don't know yet. Rich is finding out now. He was just out in the hallway, I'll go look."

I heard her say, "Sally is awake now. She is asking for you."

Rich was there in a hurry, he kissed me hungrily. "Baby, I love you. How do you feel?"

"I feel better. I don't have a chill anymore. What is wrong with me?"

I saw tears run down Rich's cheeks, "Sweetheart, you had a miscarriage, we lost the baby."

I felt a hammer blow to my heart. I heard myself scream, "NO! OH NO! NOOOOOO! It's my fault, I am a bad person, and God wouldn't let a bad person like me have a baby. Oh! Rich! I am so sorry, it is all my fault."

"NO SALLY! That is not true. You are a good person, you have never hurt anyone, and you have never hurt a fly. I am the bad person; I have killed other men. If is the fault of one of us it is all my fault. God might punish me but he would never punish you. Never! The doctor said they could find nothing wrong with you to cause this. We can try again later. He said we could have good strong healthy babies. I have never been a religious man but I prayed with all my heart for you to be well. I didn't pray for our baby, I was wrong, I guess it needed my prayers. I didn't know. I couldn't believe our baby needed my prayers. I told God I would give anything if you could be healthy. I guess our child was what he took. Forgive me Sally, I didn't know; I would have gladly given my own life. I just didn't know!"

"I love you Rich, don't blame yourself. It was God's will and we cannot change that. We will keep trying. I believe we will make beautiful babies." 

Dori kissed me and hugged me. She said, "I know it doesn't help but I had a miscarriage before I had Tommy3. My mother always said I was her fifth miscarriage. She called my little brother her first natural born child."

I told Dori I didn't know she had a brother that I thought she had a sister. She smiled, "I love Georgie with all my heart. He was born a boy but he now lives entirely as a female, and a damned beautiful one too!" 

Rich said, "Wow! Is he a pre-op or a post –op Transsexual?"




Steamboat Willy Ch. 07



"He is pre-op, he takes hormone shots and has had a few surgical procedures but he does not intend to have the big one. He loves his penis, it is big for his size. He weighs about 90 pounds and is maybe five one. I wish I looked as good as he does. I mean she does."

"Do you see him often?"

"No, my mother and I love him to pieces but Dad won't accept the way he is. So he stays away from us mostly. She calls about once a month. I wish I could spend more time with him. He is five years younger than I am. He was a small rather effeminate boy when I left home. I always thought he was very sweet and understanding. Very intelligent too."

Rich said, "I will find him for you if you want, right Sally?"

"Yes, Dori talks to me all the time about him. Let's do it. When can I go home? I am home sick already."

Rich smiled at me. "In the morning, Dearest. I will stay with you tonight. Dori needs to be with her kids tonight."

I said, "No, you go home with Dori and sleep with her tonight. Then I won't worry about you all night and I can rest. I know they will give me something to make me sleep. I'll see you in the morning. I love both of you guys. I want kisses before you go." They left in a little while and I thought I heard the helicopter before I fell asleep. I was happy Rich wouldn't be alone.

Thing got back to normal after I got home. We worked on the boats and Rich fussed at me constantly to take things easy. He insisted we were not in a rush. Everyone babied me. I couldn't do a thing with out someone helping me. The whole gang pampered me. I loved it but needed to work to build back my strength. 

About a month after I got home Rich grinned at Dori and I at dinner and said he had a surprise for us. We both got excited, we wanted to know the surprise. We cajoled, teased and begged him to tell us.

"Ok," he said, "I give up. We are going to have a guest for a while."

"Who?" we wanted to know. "Who is it? Who?"

He grinned, "Miss Georgie Patterson will arrive at the airport about ten tomorrow morning, she will be met by our helicopter and arrive here about ten forty five."

Dori jumped up, she looked at Rich and her beautiful face scrunched up as she started to cry. She ran to him and hugged him for all she was worth. She rained kisses on his face. Rich laughed and grinned at me. "Don't you have a brother I can find for you too?"

"No, but I am so happy for Dori I will hug and kiss you too."

Rich kissed Dori, "Move over little girl, your other sister wants to kiss me too."

The next morning Dori and I were so excited we couldn't eat breakfast. About twenty minutes to eleven we heard the chopper coming. We all ran out to meet it. When the rotor blades stopped Moondog let the steps down and held his hand to a tiny girl to help her down. The girl saw Dori and ran to her. She was adorable and looked like she was a teenager. She wore jeans, sneakers and a little T-top. Her long hair was in a ponytail. They hugged and kissed and cried. Dori introduced her to Rich and then to me. She introduced the kids to 'Aunt Georgie'.

Georgie looked around and asked where Tom was. Dori looked at her, "Haven't you heard that we got a divorce six months ago?"

Georgie grinned, "Good he made me nervous when he was around me. I wondered about him." We showed her to Dori's house and left them to get reacquainted. Moondog and Targon carried her bags in for her. When the two men came out they walked over to us. "Miz Sally, That is sure one sweet and beautiful little baby girl. We both love her. Let us know if we can do anything. OK?"

After a while we heard the two of them giggling as they entered the house. Georgie walked to Rich and he stood up and looked down at her. She smiled, "Now I see why my sister loves you so. You are a handsome guy." She had changed to a pair of tiny boy cut shorts and a bikini top. She was hot looking. I could see absolutely no sign she was a male. I would never be able to think of her as anything but pure female. Every nuance of her appearance and her actions were female. She didn't even have an Adam's apple. Her breasts were perfect for her size. She and Dori were obviously sisters. They were very much alike. They sounded exactly alike when they talked. She looked at each of us, "You know about me don't you?" We all nodded. "Good," she said. I don't like secrets from my family or friends. I hope I am part of your family."

Rich said, "I know I speak for all our family when I welcome you as a new member of the Murphy clan. You are a delightful and beautiful young lady. We love your sister with all our hearts and know we will love you too."

Georgie walked to me and looked me up and down, "God, you are beautiful, Sally, I wish I could look that good." 

"Oh! But you do look beautiful. I wish I could look as young as you do, Dear. You look like a teenager. Your face is flawless."

"Thank you, Sally, you make me feel better. I just want to look as good as you and my sister."

I held my arms out, "You can be our little sister, and Dori and I could use a little sister."

Georgie walked back to Rich and grinned up at him, "Do you have room for one more in your harem?"

"I don't think I have an opening right now, but if I need another, you would be on the top of my list." She looked up at him and a tear ran down her cheek. "Thank you, thank you so much." She took the handkerchief he handed her and dried her tears. She laughed, "Where did you find those two monsters you sent to get me?"

"Did they behave themselves?"

"Oh! They were perfect gentlemen. They are very sweet. They treated me like a Princess. They think the world of you and your 'two wives'."

"Oh! MY! I think they talk too much."

"Hey, Dori told me she loves you and is your mistress. I liked her being a second wife better."

Rich looked at all of us; "If there were a way she would be my wife now. Sally and I both love her with all our hearts. I pray to God I never have to choose between them, but I must say that no matter how much I love Dori, Sally is and always will be my soul mate. I would give my life for either of them in a heartbeat."

Georgie took Rich's hand, "You don't know how I envy both of them."

"Thank you, dear." Rich murmured. He reached out and took her by the elbows and lifted her effortlessly until her face was even with his. He kissed her gently of the tip of her nose. He put her down. She touched her nose. "I hate for people to touch my nose. I really hate it. You can do it anytime you want to." 

Dori said, "Sis, are you flirting with my man?"

"Yep! Is it alright?"

"You will have to ask Sally."

I laughed, "You can flirt all you want, just don't steal him from us. We need him. Dori and I would die without him. There would be no reason to live."

Dori hugged me and looked at her sister, "That is the gospel truth. We need him. Let's show Georgie around the place. OK?" The four of us walked around the little compound. It was now all walled off from the surrounding properties. There was a special fenced playground for kids. It had a swing set, sand box and a wading pool. Out side the play area there were asphalt walks that circled everything then crossed back and forth. They were for walking and later on for trice and bike riding. We thought it was going to be a wonderful place to raise kids.

Rich and I were trying for another child now. I had to laugh at him. He was insisting I go to bed for the whole nine months when I was pregnant again. I promised I would be careful but that I wasn't going to spend anytime in bed if he wasn't in the bed with me. He was still thinking about that.

Work on the boats was going great even with me out of commission for a while. Even months later no man on the place would let me lift or carry anything. They all watched me like a hawk. The girls were just as bad round the house; they fussed every time I picked up the baby or Tommy3. I told them that was going too far.

The kids needed Aunt Sally's attention and loving. I needed to give it too. I loved them like they were my own children. I wished I had been around when they had been born, I couldn't remember being near a newborn child.

I loved to play with Hilda. She was so cute and she loved to be hugged and kissed. She was such a happy girl. She would giggle if I touched her little nose. I called it her giggle button.

Moondog and Targon were our bodyguards. When we girls went shopping they drove us in a stretched SUV that held eight passengers in comfort. They opened the doors for us and followed us through the Malls. They were very patient while we tried on things. Dori would hold a skimpy little pair of panties up and ask them how they thought they would look on her. Both of them would turn bright red. She would only do it once on a trip. We never teased them other than that. They had dove gray uniforms with caps and all. Any man that tried to approach us was told we were not to be disturbed. 

Dori and I had a lot of fun buying clothes for Georgie. We each got matching Bikini swimsuits. Dori found some really cute Halter top low-rise Bikinis and we got identical suits. Georgie fell in love with a very sexy sheer merry widow corset and panty set. It was white and she got white hose to go with it. 

Dori found some no-show low-rise thongs that were adorable. We each got Black, white and flesh toned sets. I liked a top I saw that resembled a corset, it was stretch material and had a square neck, and I also liked the sexy wide necked Tees. I got a couple of them. I got a couple of cute bra top dresses, one was a blue baby doll dress and the other was a square necked bra top dress in black.

Rich was waiting for us when we got home, Moondog and Targon carried in all our bags and packages. We all went to change and Rich insisted we model our purchases for him.

We talked together and giggled a bunch as we decided we would put on a show for Rich. We talked over what each of us would wear. We would put on an outfit or item of clothing and meet in my bedroom wearing terry robes over what we had on. I went first with a bra dress and strappy sandals. Rich's grin made my day.

Dori waltzed out in baby doll bra top dress that was cute and sexy as can be. Rich grinned at her too. Georgie wore a sexy little bikini with a sliding triangle top and a string bottom. She looked really hot. There was no way she was ever anything but a girl. 

My next outfit was halter-top low-rise bikini in a blue print. Dori modeled a pair of fringed jean shorts topped a sexy wide necked Tee that showed a lot of cleavage. Georgie had on tunic tank top with Capri pants. For out last presentation I had on tiny lace Brazilian thong and a matching balconet bra. Dori came out in a little matching bra and panty set that was adorable on her. Rich was drooling over her. Georgie pranced out wearing a show stopper. She had on a sheer white Merrywiddow corset and panty set. She had on white hose held up by garter straps fastened to the tiny corset. She wore white very high heeled shoes. Damned if she wasn't absolutely beautiful. She turned slowly so we could see her whole outfit. Rich stared at her. She looked at Rich, "Do you like this?"

"Lord yes, you are something out of 'Playboy'. I can't believe you were ever anything but a stunning woman."

I chipped in and agreed with him. Dori said that if she hadn't known him all her life she wouldn't believe it either.

Rich smiled gently, "Sweetheart, may I ask you a very personal question?"

Georgie laughed, "I know, you want to know where I put it. Right?"

We all nodded.

"Would you like me to show you?"

We all nodded.

"Alright, no secrets! OK?" She slipped her thumbs in the waistband of her sheer little panties. She pulled them down and stepped out of them. She appeared to have a normal pussy. Her mound was clean-shaven. She smiled and spread her legs a little and reached between her legs and pulled her penis out. She reached down and got hold of her scrotum and gently pulled one ball after the other from where they were tucked up in her body. Her cock was huge on her little body. It was about as long as Rich, eight inches, as it became erect, but not as thick. I walked over and looked at it.

I said "Wow!" I can't believe that trick. I didn't know men could do that."

"I didn't know it either.," said Rich, "Doesn't it hurt?"

Georgie said, "It does hurt a little the first few times you do it. I do it all the time and I am used to it. It does feel very good to let him out for a while though."

Rich said, "I loved the show, but you guys have me very aroused. I think you all need to go put on old flour sacks now. No, I know all of you would be hot in that too. Just go put on some clothes and have mercy on an old man."

I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him passionately. Dori grabbed him the second I let go. Then Georgie kissed him too. I had to turn my head so I wouldn't laugh at the expression on his face when she was through. He looked dazed. Georgie and Dori headed for their rooms to change. I kissed him again. He looked at me, "That is the first man I ever kissed. She felt like a girl."

"I know she does, I have kissed her too. I guess she IS a girl."

"Not with THAT cock she isn't." Rich snorted. "That thing looks like it is a foot long on her." 

We had a nice dinner that night and we went to bed early. Rich and I were in bed talking when the door opened and Dori came in and crawled in bed with us. She smiled at us and said, "I knew there was no use trying to sleep in my room. I can't sleep without you guys. I need kisses from both of you before I can even think of going to sleep. I need to be able to touch each of you so I can sleep well."

We hugged and kissed each other. We were all tired and were soon asleep. Rich slept on his back with one of us cuddling each side.

Georgie wanted to borrow a car the next morning to go look up some friends she hadn't seen in years and she said she had some errands to take care of too. Dori told her to just call us so we wouldn't worry about her. Rich asked if she needed ay money. Dori said she had given Georgie some money and a credit card she could use. Dori and I told her we were all going to the club that night for dinner and dancing. She said she wouldn't want to miss that.

Dori and I started getting ready early, we laughed at each other. We knew we were trying to look as good as Georgie was going to look with out even trying. We bathed together and then we helped each other dress. We both looked damned good for old married ladies. We had a drink in the living room while Rich dressed. Georgie rushed in and ran to her room.

Rich walked out in a navy suit that I loved on him. I hurried to him and gently kissed his cheek so as not to mess up my lipstick. He smelled good. I looked in his eyes and told him I loved him. He put his big hands on my hips and pulled me closer. He put his lips to my ear and whispered, "Sally I love you too. You are my life" He stepped back and held my hands and looked me up and down with a grin growing on his face. "Sweetie you look good enough to eat. Why don't we send Dori and Georgie off and stay here and make love?'

"Because Dori will pitch a fit." Dori said from beside us.

"Georgie will too!" said Georgie from the other side.

I looked at Georgie. She wore a simple little black dress. She had on very high heeled shoes and black stockings. Her hair was put up in two pigtails, one on each side of her head. She looked like a fourteen-year-old girl dressed up in her mother's clothes; except that her body was not that of a fourteen year old. No way with the cleavage she was showing. On anyone else the hair do would have looked silly. The little black ribbons on each ponytail were real cute. On her it was adorable and sexy as hell.

Rich just said, "Wow!" I wish he hadn't said that. I hate it when a guy in drag looks better than I do.

The chopper was ready and we were soon at the club. We sat at a nice table we had reserved and ordered drinks. Tom, Dori's ex was there and came over and asked Dori to dance. She smiled and went off with him. An old friend asked me to dance and as we danced I noticed Rich and Georgie were gone from the table. I returned to the table and was asked by another friend to dance. 

When I returned Rich was sitting alone at the table. I leaned over to kiss him and noticed a bit of lipstick that was not mine on the corner of is mouth. Dori joined us and kissed Rich too. She looked at him and said, "Whose lipstick is on your mouth Rich, it's not mine or Sally's.

He looked startled, "It has to belong to Georgie. She gave me a smooch a while ago." I giggled, "Did you like it? I didn't think you kissed guys."

He grinned, "I was the kissed, not the kisser. There are about twenty guys here tonight that either don't know or don't care about that. Hell I'm old enough to be her father." 

Dori said, She may look that young but she is twenty seven years old; that is only seventeen years younger than you are Grandpa."

"Here she comes. She sure is cute." I wish he hadn't said that either. I am jealous as I can be. Why? I felt a hand on mine and looked down, it was Rich. He held my hand for a long time and the jealousy faded away. He whispered in my ear that he loved me. I felt his lips nibble at my ear and looked up to see Dori grinning at me. I was going to say something to her but our food arrived. 

We finished eating and Rich and I danced two numbers then he said he was tired. We sat down and he told Dorie and Georgie that we were going home but that if they wanted to stay we would send it back for them. Dori said they would call for the helicopter when they needed it. Rich and I got ready for bed and he grinned at me. "I have you all to myself tonight. Come an let me make love to you."

I left my gown on the chair near the bed and jumped on him as he laid waiting for me. I kissed his warm lips and ran my tongue inside his sweet mouth. He moaned and held me tight. I pulled my lips from his and moved slowly down his chest kissing as I went. His darling little nipples got hard as I sucked on one and teased the other with my fingers. He chuckled, "Two can play that game you know."

"I'm counting on that my dearest man." He growled and flipped me on my back so fast I didn't know what was happening. His lips sucked a nipple way in and his hands cupped both my breasts gently caressing and squeezing them. His lips moved to one nipple and sucked it right in. He suckled very hard right to the edge of pain. I loved it then he nipped lightly on the nipple with his teeth. God! That was delightful. He was perfect, he stayed just below the start of pain and right where it brought wave after wave of pleasure.

He rolled off of me suddenly and reversed is body over me. His cock pressed against my throat and I grasped it as he lifted his hips higher. I pulled it over to my mouth as I felt his face bury in my wet pussy. He sucked my inner lips in and out of his mouth covering then with nice slippery warm saliva. Oh! It was so wonderful. 

I held just the head of his cock inside my mouth. I laved the helmet with my tongue then rubbed my flat tongue as hard as I could over every bit of the top of it. Then I caressed the head with the soft smooth underside of my tongue. His hips thrust slowly up and down. 

Lifting my head I let his cock fall from my mouth and fall on his tummy. I moved forward a little and lifted his balls to my mouth sucking one after the other into my mouth and very softly sucking on each of them. I rolled them around with my tongue. I felt his movements stop while he wondered what I would do next. I smiled to myself as I realized that this was the ultimate act of trust on his part.

Then the phone rang. He lifted off me and picked it up and answered it. He listened, then said, "Dori, honey that is exactly what we were doing damn it. What do you want?" He laughed, "Ok you little bitch, you know I will get even don't you?" He laughed again and said he would kiss me good night for her. Then he looked serious. "Are you going to do it? Think carefully about it. It may be irreversible." He looked at me. "I'll tell her, don't you want to talk to her yourself? OK. Call us in the morning."




Steamboat Willy Ch. 07



He looked at me for a while. "Dori and Georgie are going to stay the night a Tommy's house. Tom is there and wants Dori to sleep with him. She hasn't decided what to do."

I asked him what else she said. He said, "She said she was afraid that if she heard your voice she would start to cry. She told me that she loved both of us no matter what she did. You heard me say it might be irreversible."

"Rich, what do you mean by that?"

"If she sleeps with Tom she will not sleep with us for at least a month, if ever."

"What?"

"Sugar, we don't know who Tom has been with. Gay men are very susceptible to catching STDs. We can't take a chance on that. Besides she may not want to come back."

I felt tears start from my eyes. "Oh! God! I'll miss her so!"

"I know, I will too! I think she needs to find out if she still really loves Tom."

"I think you are right."

Rich looked at me, "Do you think we should leave in the morning for a months cruise?"

"No, I can't do that to her. She may need us tomorrow. Either way this is going to be very traumatic for her. She is going to go through hell either way."

"Well I know one thing, she sure ruined our loving for tonight."

"Honey, please just hold me tight. I love Dori."

"I know girl, I love her too! I wish we could help her but she has to reach this decision herself."

I didn't sleep well that night and I know Rich didn't either, the poor guy tossed and turned and got up and paced the floor several times. I tried to cry quietly but each time he would pat my back or kiss my cheek.

He got up and fixed coffee about five. I was awake and joined him. We just sat and looked at each other. The phone rang about seven and I grabbed it. It was the pilot of the helicopter wanting to know if it was all right for him to pick up Dori and Georgie and bring them home. Rich nodded and I approved the flight. An hour later we heard the chopper land. Dori and Georgie walked in a few minutes later.

Georgie looked at us and said, "You two look like hell. Did you stay up all night?"

I said, "Not really, but we really didn't sleep well."

Dori walked to me and stared at me. She burst into tears and I stood and took her in my arms. I held her until she stopped crying and I gave her some Kleenex. She dried her eyes. She looked at me, "Well, at least I know now. It will never work, nothing is left for either of us." Rich turned and walked into our bedroom and closed the door behind him. Dori looked at me. "Did I hurt him a lot?"

"Yes, a whole lot. I don't know if he will take you back, I just don't know. I know he will insist on medical tests before you touch either of us. That takes a month to be sure."

She stood with her shoulders sagging. She looked totally devastated. Tears ran from her eyes. She sniffed and said softly, "I have to go see my babies. I guess I better not kiss them either." She walked slowly towards the door. 

Georgie looked at me. "You guys really love her don't you?"

"Yes we do. This is very hard on us too. I have to go see how Rich is doing. I know he warned her but I don't know if she understood what he was telling her. I really don't know if he will ever forgive her."

Georgie looked at me, "Do you mean that? That will kill her. She was trying to see if it would work between she and Tom. She thought it might be better for her kids to be with their Daddy. Will he throw her out?"

"Hell NO! He would never do that; she will always have a home here. He may just never let her back in our bed. I have a feeling he feels betrayed. I know he was deeply hurt. I also know her is a sweet and wonderful man. He will try and work things out. Now I have to talk to him. There is coffee over there."

I walked in our bedroom and saw Rich standing looking out the window. I went to him and put my arms around him and pressed against his back. His hands took mine and he lifted one to kiss it. He turned in my arms and bent to gently kiss my lips.

He pulled me to the bed and we sat on the side of the bed. "Sally, I just don't know what to do. We both love Dori so very much. I could never make her leave, I hope she didn't think that was what I meant."

I squeezed his hand, "Rich, I told her I didn't know if you would ever take her back."

"Oh! No! That might really hurt her. We have to go see her right away." Rich stood and hurried out the door with me right behind him. He ran into Dori's house. Maria saw him and pointed towards Dori's bedroom. Rich opened the door without knocking. Dori was on her face on the bed, Her face buried in a pillow. Her shoulders heaved with her sobs. Rich looked at me and pointed to the other side of the bed as he knelt beside her and placed his big hand on her back and softly said, "Don't cry Sweetheart, we can't stand to see you cry. Please talk to Sally and I. Please. "

I leaned to her and put my arm around her and kissed her cheek. I whispered, "We both still love you dear and understand why you went to Tom. Please talk to us so we can get over this and be back together."

She slowly turned over; her pretty face was a mess. Her make up was all smeared, her eyes red and puffy and her hair hanging over her face. She looked at each of us. Her little bottom lip was quivering. I knew it melted Rich's heart because it almost broke mine to see her like that. Rich took her face between his hands. He kissed her full on the mouth. Her eyes popped open and she pushed him away. "You can't do that, I may have something."

Rich grinned, "No! I trust Tom; I just talked to him and told him you were worried about giving something to your children. Tom said there was no chance of that, neither he or Frank have ever been with anyone else. So we want to find out what you want to do."

Dori stared at him, then looked at me. She started crying again. She sobbed, "I never knew how much I love and need the two of you. I thought I would die if you kicked me out. I felt so hopeless and I thought I had destroyed my life."

Rich reached out and hugged her to him and motioned for me to join them. Dori twisted her face to kiss me. It felt damned good. It felt good to be holding both of them again.

When we were all calmed down Dori told us about her time with Tom. He evidently had a difficult time getting an erection and when he did manage to get hard and penetrate her she said she felt nothing. Even with foreplay she was dry and it hurt when he entered her. Neither of them could cum and they both agreed that what had been between them was gone. They agreed to remain friends and not avoid each other. Tom said he and Frank were talking again and that they both wanted to work things out if they could. Tom said that his desire to try and get back with Dori and the kids was the heart of the trouble that he and Frank were having.

Rich pushed Dori back. "Go wash your face and fix your make up both of you, I can't stand messy looking wives. Then let's go set in the den and cuddle for a while. I'll tell Georgie things are back to normal.

Rich met me in the den and I saw Georgie's lipstick on his mouth again. I took a Kleenex from my pocket and wiped it off. I looked at him and told him I didn't like finding her lipstick on him so much. He grinned and said she was just grateful because we took Dori back. I said, "I don't care, I don't like the little bitch throwing herself at you that way. She is too damned beautiful for me to let her get away with that."

"Don't you trust me Sally dear?"

"Yes I trust you but we both know that sometimes even the strongest person can be seduced under the right circumstances. I don't trust her."

"Sally that will never happen, I love you and Dori too much to take a chance on loosing you. The thought of loosing Dori scared me last night and this morning. I know it would have been much worse if it had been you." I pressed my lips to his and told him I loved him. He said he was going down to check on the new paddle on WILLY and the new thruster control on PRINCESS. 

I went to see Dori and the children. This was supposed to be the first day of my period but nothing showed yet. I didn't see Georgie around. Dori said she had gone for a walk. Tommy3 ran to me and hugged my legs. I picked him up and kissed him and hugged him. I felt a tug on my jeans and looked down to see little Hilda trying to pull herself up. I put Tommy3 down and picked Hilda up and kissed her nose to hear her giggle. All the cares and worries of the day seemed to melt away as I held the child to my breast. I sat in a chair and closed my eyes as I held her. I felt a kiss on my cheek and opened my eyes to see Dori smiling at me.

She petted my hand and said, "You really love them don't you? I think you are just practicing and wishing for your own."

"You have that right, keep your fingers crossed." The only thing I am worried about now is that I think Georgie is making a play for Rich."

"What?"

"We need to watch her, she keeps marking him with her lipstick."

"Oh my God! She told me last night she has never made it with a man. She has been living as a girl 24/7 for about three years now and told me she wished she could find a guy like Rich to try and loose her virginity with."

"Damn, which way did she go?"

"She said she was going to walk down to the dock."

"That's where Rich went."

I put Hilda down, Dori called Maria to watch them and we went out and jumped in the Jeep and dove to the hill overlooking the dock. We saw Willy just pulling into the dock. Rich jumped up on the dock and secured the lines. He helped Georgie up on the dock. She slowly walked up the dock. 

Rich vented all the steam from the engine and the boiler. He sat hand held his head. He got up and opened the firebox door and raked the hot coals and partially burned wood into a metal bucket. He sprayed water in the bucket. He sat and stared into space. Georgie walked right past us. Her lipstick was smeared and she was crying. Dori called her name and she suddenly saw us. She took off running. We followed her and found her in the house with the door to her room locked. We could hear her inside crying but she wouldn't answer us.

We heard the helicopter land and we rushed to he window in time to see it lift off and fly away. It was only on the ground for about ten seconds. We ran back and pounded on Georgie's door. Finally she answered. She was crying and telling us how sorry she was for what she had done. Dori shook her and asked her what she had done. She wailed and cried again. Eventually she confessed that she had seduced Rich. She looked at us and said, "God, it was wonderful, better that I ever dreamed it could be. Then he.." She looked at both of us and buried her face in a pillow and sobbed her heart out. Dori was getting angry by now; she shook Georgie and then flipped her over and slapped her face. "Tell us what happened then? Tell us now. I mean right now."

She sniffed, "I never saw a man fall apart like that. He screamed as if he had taken a mortal wound. It was pure agony. She said he ripped the fire extinguisher off the wall and threw it as if it were a toy. She said he stared at her and sat on a bench. He softly said, "I can never face those sweet girls again as long as I live. I smugly preached to them about having zero tolerance for cheating and then cheated on them, sob, with a man. They will never forgive me, I will never forgive myself."

I shook her, "Where did he go? We have to find him. You have killed him you little bitch." 

I ran to the phone. I called 'Mean'Sally' and asked the captain where the chopper took Rich. He said Rich was dropped off at the airport and the chopper was returning to the ship. I didn't know what to do. I called Moondog and Targon to the house and sent them to trace him down. I gave them a company credit card that had a million dollar upper limit. I called Marge and talked to her for a long time. I told her what had happened. She cried and said she loved Rich and that she knew he loved us too. She said, "He is a proud man. This has to be killing him. I don't know if he can live with this. I promise I'll tell you if I hear anything. I have seen how you love him and I know you will forgive him."

I told her I had already forgiven him. I told her to spread the word through out the company that his wife was desperate to find him and would pay fifty million dollars to anyone who gave information leading to my finding him."

Six months went by without a word. Dori and I were wrecks. I went to the shop to get his axes and his adze to place them in a museum being built to show the old methods of boat building. His tools were gone. Nobody knew what had happened to his tools. Like him, they had vanished without a trace. 

About a month later Rich's father and uncle came to see me. They told me that they had been timber cruising, looking for naturally bent timbers on some land that Rich and I had bought a year or so ago. They swore they heard what sounded like someone using an adze but the sound had stopped before they could locate where it was coming from. I could hardly walk by then, I was pregnant with our twins. Dori and Maria rode herd on me and would hardly let me move at all. 

I called Marge and told her to have aerial photos made of the whole area south of here, concentrating on the property we owned. These photos were very detailed and could be blown up so that you could read the label on an old soup can on the ground. It took several weeks of work by photo analysts to find what I was looking for. They brought me the blown up shots of what I was hunting for. 

Some one was building a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. They were using wooden pegs to hold it together. The builder was living in a lean-to while he was building it. I knew it was Rich. I knew it was his workmanship. The logs were hewn so they fit together perfectly with hand made splines fitted in groves between the logs.

There was even one picture of the builder. He was a tall bearded gaunt man. It was Richmond Murphy.

I had Moondog and Targon go with me to find him. We got as close as we could by Jeep. It was a two-mile walk through thick woods from there. I had to rest every twenty minutes. I was seven months pregnant by then and carrying twin boys. Big boys. The guys even carried a folding chair for me to rest in. I heard the ax singing in the distance. According to our hand held GPS we were very close.

We came to a clearing and I saw the cabin. I saw him carry a short timber inside. I motioned the men to stay put and slowly walked to the cabin. I was only ten feet from the door when he stepped out. He froze and stared at me. 

I smiled and said, "Where is our bedroom my husband." 

His face scrunched up. "Sally, my god, what happened."

"You made me pregnant is what happened. We are going to have twin sons Darling, They are going to need their Daddy." He turned abruptly and dodged into the house. He was back in a second carrying a hand made chair.

"Here, please rest. You look exhausted. You shouldn't have walked this far."

"No! I will not sit until you kiss me. I need my husband with me now. I don't know if I can do this alone."

He gently held me and kissed me. He pulled back and looked at me, "You are even more beautiful than I remembered. Is Dori still with you?"

"Yes, she is waiting about a mile from here. She wanted me to see you first."

"I am so ashamed by what I did I can't face you."

"Richmond Murphy you were a man, not a perfect man, but my man. No, OUR man, Dori and I forgave you the second we found out what happened. You didn't have a chance against Georgie. She told us all about hat happened before she left. We haven't heard a word from her. Dori is worried about her.

"Dori and I have prayed every single day for your safe return. We love you Rich; we are just existing without you. Please come home. If it doesn't work for you, you can come back here and we will never bother you."

Rich smiled a wry little smile; he put both hands on my huge belly. His mouth dropped open, "It kicked me!" I smiled, "Yes, Dear, I think I am carrying two jackrabbits or a pair of bullfrogs in there. They are very active. The doctor says they a very healthy little boys, they are going to need a very active father to raise them. Are you available or should I go back alone?" I felt a tear run down my cheek, Damn! I promised myself I was not going to use tears to get him home. No feminine wiles. I stood and started to walk away. I looked back and he was just behind me. He saw Moondog and Targon. He shook his head. Moondog put the chair under me and I rested a bit. Boy I got tired easy. 

Rich said, "Wait here for a minute." And he ran off. He was back in a moment with two poles. He lashed one to each arm of the chair. He grinned at my two bodyguards. "Now you can carry her. Let's go."

The man is a genius. I had a very comfortable ride to where Dori waited. She ran and threw her arms around his neck and sobbed. They kissed for a long time, I was a little jealous. No, I was a lot jealous, she was slim and beautiful and I looked like a bloated cow with a giant belly and swollen breasts dripping milk. No contest. I watched them kiss and cried a bit. I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up to see Targon looking at me, He whispered, "I still think you are beautiful, Miz Sally." I squeezed his hand and said, Thank you." Rich walked back to me and kneeled by my chair. "Sally, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I have never gone five minutes in a row without thinking of you since I left you in total despair and shame. I cannot begin to express the joy I felt when I stepped out that door and saw you standing there. Then I saw your smile and then your belly, I just don't know how foolish I feel. I know now that if I hadn't been so disgusted with myself I would have known our love was strong enough to weather any stupidity on my part. I promise I will never let myself get in a situation like that again. I cannot tell you the depths of shame and despair I reached. I didn't, no, I couldn't, eat for several weeks. Then I ate raw rabbit, and snakes and stuff like the animal I felt I was. I guess I had shifted to a survival mode. I went back to the shop and stole my axes and a few other things."

I saw the tears in his eyes and knew he had not yet forgiven himself. Dori was watching us closely. I beckoned her over to us. I said, "Dori, Rich is afraid we have not forgiven him. Right now I don't think I can get out of this damned chair. Please kiss him and show him we have forgiven him and how much we want him home with us."

Dori pulled him to his feet and looked up into his eyes and kissed him for a long time. Then she said, "Rich, Sally and I need you very much at home with us. Sally needs you to be with her right now and for the next month. She is having a tough time of it; carrying those big boys and she tires easily. I yelled and screamed at her about walking all that distance through the woods to find you. She was determined to find you and drag you home." She reached up and placed her little hand on his cheek. "I also want you to know we have not touched each other sexually since you left. Oh! We have cuddled and kissed and cried together every night, but that was it. I told her she might trip and fall and hurt herself or the babies. She said she would be very careful but that her husband needed her and she needed him. She is amazing, I love her so damned much." Rich looked at me and said, "I know she is." He looked back ay Dori. "So are you. Thank you for looking after Sally for me. No! It was for the three of us and for our sons too. Lets go home."

My Dear husband Rich will continue our story. Thank you for letting me narrate my side of part of the story.



Steamboat Willy Ch. 08



When we got home I was amazed at how much Tommy3 and Hilda had grown. Tommy3 was very happy to see and tore my heart apart when he begged me not to leave again. I really didn't realize how much my extended family depended on me. I couldn't believe I had been such a selfish self-centered moron. I had let everyone including myself down with my selfish and stupid behavior. I resolved that it would never happen again.

I called Marge and checked in with her. She said that everything in Miami and throughout the company was doing very well. She told me flat out that Sally had saved the company from disaster on several occasions when I wasn't available to make final decisions. She said Sally had come to Miami and listened to the presentation from the staff. She had gone in my office and come back out in a few minutes with a decision that was not always what everyone expected but turned out to be correct. 

I told Marge I was very proud of my wife. She said, "You damned well should be you big jerk, she is wonderful."

I agreed with her and asked her to put her best resources to work finding Georgie for us. I had unfinished business with that little witch.

That evening after taking a long bath and removing the hair from my face I sat and talked with my ladies. They were very happy to have me home. I was happy to be home. 

Sally said she was very tired and that she was going to bed in the guest bedroom and for Dori and I to sleep in the master bedroom.

Dori and I both said "NO!" I held up my hand to Dori, "Let me say my piece first Dori. Sally you are my soul mate. All three of us will sleep in the master bedroom or I will sleep out in the woods. I looked at Sally, "Wife, are you still allowed to have sex?"

"Yes, if we take it easy."

"Good, I need both of you very badly and I will not make love with out all of us present."

Dori grinned at me, "I wouldn't have it any other way. I happen to know that Sally is horny as she can be, right girl."

Sally blushed and then giggled; "I just thought it would be better for Rich alone with a beautiful woman." 

"Sally, you are a beautiful woman too. Damn girl, you have me drooling over the way my beautiful wife looks carrying our children. You just seem to glow, sweetheart. I want to taste all of you. I think you are as sexy as hell."

"Oh! Rich, do you really feel that way? Aren't you just saying that to make me feel better?" 

I grinned at her. I stood up and quickly pulled my shorts down to my knees. My cock was as hard as it has ever been as it pointed straight at her mouth. "Now, please tell me you don't turn me on. OK?"

"My God, look at that thing Sally. He is even bigger than I remember." Dori leaned forward and looked at my cock at very close range. "Come on Sally, we need to get this guy in bed. Look at the precum run out of him. He is really about to bust his balls."

"Dori you and Rich go on, I'll be there in a second."

"No Sally", I said, "We will wait for you. Come on with us." We followed her into our bedroom. She awkwardly climbed on the bed and moved to the middle. She looked at me; a tear ran from her eye. She sniffed, "Rich, I don't want you to see me like this. If you had been with me all along and watched me slowly get bigger and bigger it would be different but to have you suddenly see me like this is very embarrassing. I love you and I don't want you to be disgusted with the way I look." 

I moved on the bed beside her. I motioned Dori to climb on the other side of her. I reached to the table lamp and turned it off, plunging the room into darkness. I leaned to Sally and moved my lips to hers. Her lips opened beneath mine and she welcomed my tongue with hers. We kissed for a long time. My hands started caressing her cheeks, her hair, and her face. They moved to her shoulders and upper chest. She was wearing an old T-shirt of mine and I lifted the bottom of it up over her breasts. She weakly said, "No, please." That didn't deter me in the least. My hands gently touched her breasts, softly caressing the lower slope. Then my fingers moved slowly around and upward. I felt a slight stickiness as I neared the nipple. I knew it had to be her milk, actually I later learned it was a clear discharge from the breasts. I know it had little flavor. I gently sucked on her nipple and she held my head in her hands and softly moaned. She whispered, "I missed you doing that to me. I missed it very much." I ran my hand over her swollen belly it felt tight as a drum. I softly caressed her belly and she told me it felt good. I felt a kick and jumped at the feel of it. Sally laughed, "He got you a good one didn't he." I pressed my lips to her belly. I turned my head and listened to the heartbeats. I said, "Dori, put your ear to her tummy and listen, you can hear the little hearts." 

Dori said, "Yes, I hear them, I have heard them before. Do you know that when they are very active I can press my lips to Sally's belly and hum a little tune they will be very still and we think they go to sleep. We think they are very large now. We are going to the doctor again tomorrow. She is afraid they will get too large and make it difficult for Sally to have a natural birth. The doctor says if they get too big she will either have to induce labor early or Sally will have to have a caesarian section."

Sally said, "Hey, you guys are talking about me like I am not even here."

I felt tears run from my eyes. Sally's hand touched my face and felt the tears. "Rich, Honey, why are you crying?"

"Sally, Please bear with me. I have never been through anything like this before. I am scared. Really scared."

"Silly boy, I have never been through it before either. Dori has been my strength and has helped tremendously. I was scared I would have to go through it alone. I am so glad you will be with me. You will be with me won't you, I know a lot of men won't go in the delivery room but I want you there with me. OK?"

"I will do what ever you want. I have a lot to learn in a short time, I will do it though."

"Rich, I don't want you to do it if you don't want to do it. I have heard of men passing out. Dori told me about a guy who saw his wife go through a very hard delivery. His wife was in a lot of pain for a long time. She had a beautiful little girl and when a year had gone by she wanted another baby. He wouldn't hear of it. He made her stay on the pill for four more years before he gave in and they had a little boy and his wife had an easy time." 

"Rich, baby, would you please do something for me?"

"Anything in my power."

"I want you so bad I can taste it. Will you let me give you a blowjob? I am afraid for you to fuck me. Then I want to watch you make love to Dori. She needs you real badly."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Move up here and let me find you. Oh! Yes, God he is huge! Mmmmm!" I felt her sweet lips enclose the head. Her tongue swirled around the helmet. She held me by the base of my cock and cupped my balls with the other hand. God, she felt so damned good. I knew I wouldn't last long. Her lips slid down the length of my shaft. Shivers ran down my spine. Sally was softly humming as moved her mouth up and down. The vibrations were a new sensation for me and I asked her to slow down or I was going to cum. She sucked harder and hummed louder. I felt her tongue go wild on my cock. She pulled her mouth off of my penis and said, "Cum in my mouth, I love your cum." I couldn't have stopped if my life depended on it. My cock erupted sending spurt after spurt of my seed down her throat. She was softly crying as I moved down to kiss her. I tasted myself in her mouth. I held her tightly and cried a little myself. I asked if she was all right and she assured me she was.

I got up and went to the bath and washed off and brought a damp washcloth and towel to Sally. She asked me to leave the light on in the bathroom. She asked me to bring a chair close to the bed, she said she would be more comfortable watching Dori and I from there.

Dori helped Sally get in the chair then she moved beside me on the bed. Dori just kissed me gently and my cock sprang back to life. Sally giggled, "Boy, Dori sure turned you on in a hurry." I knew she was jealous. I felt bad but couldn't think of anything but the hot sexy little body pressing against me. My hands were caressing her. She sat up and looked at Sally. She said, "Sally is hurting, she is jealous. I can't do this to her."

Sally said, "Oh yes you can. I want the two of you to have this. You both need it. Rich, I love both of you and I am so happy we have Dori here to satisfy you when I can't do it anymore. And sweet, sweet Dori I love you so much I need to watch Rich make sweet love to you. And I am jealous, I wish it could be me but if it can't be me for a while I want it to be you, Dori." 

Dori ran her little hands over my body. She said, "Rich, you are just skin and bones. Yes, I like this bone and I think it is OK. We need to put some meat on the rest of you." She slipped up over my body. She rained kisses over my face and upper body. I reached down and grasped her hips and pulled her forward and then pushed her back until the head of my cock felt the wet entrance to her pussy. I felt her little hand guide me in to her vagina. She was very tight. I brought my legs up between her legs and lifted her with my hands. I started slowly thrusting into her sweet pussy. Slippery warm velvet was grasping my cock. She got slipperier and wetter. It was absolutely delightful.

Sally softly asked, "Does it feel as good as it looks, girl?" 

"Oh! It is heavenly, sweetheart. I wish you could feel him. I really wish it was you instead of me, I really do. I love you so much, Sally.

"Honey, you just love him for me, please. You both need this too."

"Sally, I am cumming all the time nowwww! Shitttt! God what a lover we have. Ahhhh! Mmmmmmmmm! Yes, Yes just do that Rich, just like that."

Sally said, "Oh Dori, I can see your juices squirt out around his cock when he presses forward into your pussy. Damn girl you are shaking like a leaf. Cum baby cum! Oh! I am soaking wet from watching you guys. It is so beautiful and sexy. Are you close too Rich?"

I told her I was right on the verge of cumming. She said do it, do it. I did.

Dori and I held each other and wound down a bit. She softly whispered in my ear. "I love you. Please eat Sally's pussy. I know it would please her." I looked at Sally. She sat in the chair with her head leaning forward. Tears dropped from her eyes. I jumped from the bed and hurried and gota large fluffy towel and put it on the wet place on the bed. I pulled Sally to her feet then I picked her up and laid her on the bed. I kissed the tears from her eyes. I kissed her lips. "Sally I love you so damned much. I have been so selfish. While you are the opposite, you are selfless. You love with all your heart and give without thought for your self. I don't deserve your love, I really don't. I promise I will try harder my love. I swear to you and Dori both I will do better from now on."

"Sugar, neither Dori or I are complaining. Just keep loving us." 

Dori said, "Amen Sister, Amen!"

I moved down between Sally's legs. Her eyes were wide as she watched me. I lifted the hem of the shirt she wore. I buried my face in her pussy. It was very wet but it was exactly as I remembered it. Sweet, oh so sweet. My tongue revisited all it's old favorite spots. Sally's hands were on my head guiding me to the places she wanted loved. She was moaning and mewing. And I was as hard as a rock; I lifted and moved forward and slipped my cock gently in her pussy. She gasped and grabbed my hips and pulled on me. I just moved slowly into her and then back out. I kept my thrusts very gentle and soft. It felt wonderful to me and Dori was gently touching Sally's clit. I was never penetrating her to my full depth. Sally seemed to be really enjoying our attentions so we continued. I was very careful and was extra gentle and kept up a slow pace. Finally she screamed, "I'm cumming again, please stop! I love it but I am too sensitive now. It is just a sensory overload. I can't stop cumming. Oh! That was wonderful, the best I ever had, and I am just now coming down from a super orgasm. Wowie! What did you do to me? Rich please cuddle me for a minute then you can finish with Dori". I held her in my arms until she relaxed and fell asleep. I got up and took Dori by the hand and we went into our den, we sat on the couch and cuddled for a while. Then her little hand moved into my crotch and found my cock.

She moved over my crotch and put her knees on either side of my hips. She rubbed her nipples across my lips until I just sucked them in. She wiggled around until my cock slipped into her pussy. She slipped down and took all of me inside her. She felt damned good too! She lifted so my cock was just ready to fall out of her and then she dropped down hard. She repeated that movement over and over. She started wiggling her little bottom around and back and forth as she pressed into my lap. I held her down against me and stood up holding her tightly to me. I walked to the desk and put her little ass on the edge of the desk. It was just about the right height. I pulled out some and then thrust back in hard. She yelped and put her hands on my ass and pulled me to her very hard. I was soon pounding into her on each thrust. My pelvis and my balls were slapping loudly against her little bottom. She was loving it. Soon she was shivering and shaking and her eyes rolled up as she fell back on the desktop. About two more thrusts brought me over the top and I pumped her full of my cum. As I caught my breath she sat up and smiled at me. He took my hand and pulled me to the shower. We washed and dried each other.

Dori whispered that she was going to check on her children and would be right back. I turned and entered the bedroom. Sally was gone. Then I saw her sitting in the chair across from the bed. She said, "Was she good?"

"Yes, she was delightful, as were you, dear. We thought you were asleep and didn't want to awaken you."

"Right, why didn't you just sleep with her like I asked you to earlier?"

Sally, I want to sleep with my wife, I love her and need to cuddle with her all night. You of all people know exactly how I feel about Dori. You know the rules we established when Dori came to live with us. I have to sleep with you. That is where I want to be." 

"I thought one of the rules was that I would always be there when you made love to Dori."

"Sally, Honey, listen to me, the only reason we went into the den was so that we would not disturb you. I thought about just going to sleep but I knew Dori had to be hot as a firecracker. You know she was. After that long with out sex and then watching you and I make love. She started cumming as soon as I touched her." 

Dori entered the bedroom; she was startled to see Sally awake. "I thought I heard someone talking. She hugged Sally and asked why she wasn't asleep. 

"Dori, Sally is upset because we made love without her being there."

"What? You know we both love you Sally and we would never do anything to hurt you. We didn't want to wake you up. You were in the middle of the bed, it would be hard to make love without disturbing you."

Sally looked at me, "I trusted Rich and look what he did."

I looked at her and slowly turned and left the room. My first inclination was to go back to the quiet of the woods. Then I knew that would be wrong. She was having a lot of mixed up emotions right at this time. I couldn't leave her. I turned around and went back in the room. I walked to her and said, "Sally; I love you with all my heart and soul. I made a terrible mistake. I was totally wrong. I will sleep in another room. If that is not far enough away from you just tell me and I will sleep outside." 

She stared at me. I went in the closet and started dressing. She screamed, "NO! Don't leave us. I didn't mean what I said. Don't goooo." She started sobbing. I went to her and held her. "I will never leave you again. I would only have been just outside your window."

"No, I need you in bed with us, that is where you belong." Things quieted down and we all climbed in bed, kissed and held each other and fell asleep.

It was the first sound sleep I had had in many months. I awoke at first light and looked at my two girls sleeping. I was filled with love for both of them.

After everything settled down after breakfast I called Marge in the Miami headquarters. She filled me in on how things were going. She asked me to hold, she had a call on her "hot line." She was back in a couple of minutes. She said the call was to report that Georgie had been located. She was about twenty miles away in Ocala. I wrote down the information and thanked her.

I got together with the girls and told them what I had in mind. They agreed with my plan. I put into action. Just before noon there was a knock on the front door. I opened the door. Georgie stood looking up at me. Moondog and Targon were behind her. I said, "Thanks guys." I smiled at Georgie and said, "Come on in." She brushed by me and ran to Dori and hugged her. Georgie looked at Sally and started crying. Sally held out her arms and Georgie tried to hug her but couldn't get very close because of Sally's belly. Georgie stepped back and stared at Sally.

She said, "I can't believe you are that big. Wow!"

Sally looked at Georgie, "Girl, I forgive you this time. Next time I will kill you. Do you understand?"

"Yes. It won't happen. I haven't had a nights sleep since it happened. I love all three of you and I betrayed all of you. I don't know what I was thinking. The only good thing that came of it is that it changed my whole life. I know what I want from life now."

I said, "Georgie, we all forgive you. We all love you too. I was as much to blame as you were and these two wonderful women have forgiven me. I haven't completely forgiven myself yet."

She looked at me and said, "Can you forgive me?"

I nodded and said I forgave her.

Sally said, "You poor dummy, you didn't stand a chance once she decided she wanted you."

I looked at Georgie again; she looked different. She wore jeans and sneakers with a blouse that fit her loosely. Her jeans were not tight either. She had very light makeup on too. She was still very beautiful. I said, "I like your new look sis. You look better than I have ever seen you."

"Thank you. I had to change. I read a story on the net and one of the characters had a sluttish dressing friend who complained she never met any nice guys. She was told that when you fish with shark bait you are going to catch sharks. Guys looking for a mate don't go for sluts. I don't think I was one but I dressed like one. This is what I learned from the three of you. I want a mate too. I always thought all men were the same; Rich taught me that they are definitely not all the same. I know now that I really want to be a complete woman. I have a job and I am saving up for the big operation. I am scared but I know that is the only way I'll ever be happy."

I took her hand, "We invited you to be one of our family, that invitation still stands. Do you want to be our sister?"

She burst out crying, "Sob, yes I do, more than anything in the world. I didn't think you would want me anymore."

"Sweetie, you don't get kicked out of a family because you make one mistake. If you do it over and over we will have a family meeting and decide what to do." I got up and walked to my desk in the den. I returned and gave Georgie a phone. It was a complete set with case, charger and instructions. I explained, "This is your membership card. This is phone number four. If you press #1, I will answer, two is Sally, three Doris, and you are four. If you are ever in any kind of trouble you press #100. That is my company headquarters. They will help you. Don't hesitate to use it for any reason at all if you can't get me. Here is a credit card for your use only. Use it for anything you want. Any transaction over fifty thousand will have to be approved by me. A phone call will do that. Use it for your operation. I would like to have it researched for you before you make any decision."




Steamboat Willy Ch. 08



"Why are you doing this for me?"

"Because you are family."

"Does that mean I can live here again?"

"Of course you can. We will build you a separate place if you want it."

She sat down in a chair and began to weep. Sally and Dori went to her and kissed her. They begged her not to cry." 

She looked at each of us, "I did a nasty and horrid thing that hurt all of you. Then you forgive me and make all my dreams come true. How can I ever repay you?"

I grinned at her, "Just be happy and share some of your happiness with your family. That is how you repay us."

I walked in the den and called Marge in Miami and told her to have our research people get all the information on the gender change operation. I gave her the details on Georgie. I told her to make an appointment with the most successful doctor she can find in the world. Cost was no object. Marge said she would get back with me the next day. That afternoon Dori and I took Sally to see the OB /GYN Doctor. Her doctor was pleased to tell us every thing was progressing normally. It appeared Sally would be able to carry the babies full term. She thought Sally was going to have no problems with natural childbirth. That Sally was in very good physical condition was a big factor.

Sally was praying she would not need drugs or painkillers to help her birth her babies. The doctor asked if I were going to be in the delivery room with Sally. I me to watch and if I was up to it she might be able to get me in the room for a natural child birth before Sally was due. I told her that if it were at all possible I would be there. She said she would give me as much notice as she could but said that being natural childbirth things often happened at very inopportune times. I laughed and said that knowing Sally she would try to be on time.

Sally smiled and said it was never too early to teach children promptness.

We were all happy on the way home. We decided to go to the club for dinner that night. Dori called home and talked to Georgie. She wanted to go too. She said she would tell the cook she only had to cook for Maria that night. When she was finished I had Dori arrange for the helicopter to pick us up at six. 

We sat in the family room and sipped a light beer and talked. Georgie said she was afraid she had lost her job when she didn't show up last night. Sally asked what sort of job she had. She was working as a clerk at a supermarket for minimum wage.

Dori said she was looking for someone to work in the food preparation end of Murphy and Thompson Steamboat Lines. She needed a buyer to purchase groceries and supplies for the company. Mostly all she had to do was notify the vendors that we would be requiring X amount of such and such and were open for bids. Then when she had vendors set up she had to arrange for and schedule deliveries.

Georgie said that it sounded like fun and if it only paid minimum wage she would take it. Dori laughed, "It will pay a bit better than that. She said the starting pay was $25.00 an hour."

Georgie stared at Dori, "You have to be kidding me. That is $18.00 more than I was making."

"Georgie, I know you are very intelligent. I want you to learn everything you can about the business so you can eventually run it yourself."

"You mean the whole food prep business?"

"Yes, that is a critical part of our business and we want family running it."

I said, "Dori, Sweetheart, I know she hasn't even started yet but she may need some time off soon."

"I know that, silly, I want her on our medical insurance as soon as possible."

I laughed, "I guess she will get a company car too."

Dori looked at me. "What do we have available here in town?"

"Well I was looking at the list this morning. No one has shown any interest in the little BMW Z4 roadster. It does have a Murphy company logo on it if she can live with that. The logo is only the size of a postcard."

Georgie put her face in her hands and cried. "I just can't believe all this. Someone pinch me and wake me up. No! Don't do that, let me keep dreaming." 

I looked at Sally, "I hate to combine business with pleasure but our head of Advertising and Promotions is in town and I thought I might invite him as a guest for the evening."

"Oh! Yes he has a lot of good ideas, I enjoy talking with him." Sally's eyes lit up and she grinned at me. I knew she knew what I was doing and approved. Georgie had not picked up on it.

When we were all dressed and ready to go I saw Georgie walk in following Dori. She was wearing a modest blue bra dress that showed her lovely figure in a refined way. She was still gorgeous but in a subdued manner. Anyone looking at her would soon realize her exceptional beauty. 

The club was crowded but we had a reserved table. John Norton was at the table waiting for us. He looked very handsome and his face lit up when he was introduced to Georgie. She smiled at him very demurely. We sat them beside each other. He turned to me and said he had a couple of suggestions about the PRINCESS. I told him there would be no shoptalk tonight and that we would meet tomorrow. I excused myself and went to talk to the assistant manager. He was glad to see me again and said Sally was beautiful and radiant tonight. I agreed with him. I made a simple request and he smiled and said it would be taken care of. As I neared the table John Norton got up and held Georgie's chair as she got up. He led her out on to the dance floor. She was smiling up at him as they danced. After two dances the bandleader announced that the next number was by request.

I got up and took Sally's hand and asked her to dance with me. She looked startled the smiled as she heard the music. It was her favorite, 'The Tennessee Waltz.' I had requested that it be played a little slower than normal. Sally stepped into my arms and we glided across the floor. The smile of delight on her face brought a bigger one to mine. Soon I noticed that we were alone on the floor. People ware gathered all around the floor watching us. Sally was just beautiful as she gracefully moved to the old song. When the tune ended the crowd started clapping. Everyone wanted to kiss or touch Sally. Sally called each of them by name. She was crying by the time I got her back to our table. She dried her eyes and said, "You set that up didn't you?"

I nodded. She said, "Thank you Darling, that was very thoughtful of you." Then she laughed, "They should have played the 'Elephant's Waltz.' But I really loved that. I don't think I could have made it if they hadn't played slowly. Dori got up and walked to me. She kissed my lips softly. She looked at Sally, "This man really loves you Girl, it is written all over his face when he looks at you." Sally smiled and pulled Dori to her for a kiss. I heard Sally whisper, "He loves us both Sweetie." 

Georgie and John talked softly together. The dinner was excellent and we all enjoyed it. Georgie and John were back on the dance floor when the band started again. Sally said she was getting tired. When Georgie and John returned I told everyone Sally needed to go home. I asked who wanted to go with us. Every one said they wanted to go with us. I called the chopped and got an ETA of five minutes. We said good night to John and told him I would call him at eight o'clock. 

I was sort of surprised that Georgie came with us. She was very quiet on the way home. I couldn't stand it anymore and I asked. "Georgie, what did you think of John Norton? She looked at me, "He is wonderful, very sweet and really smart. He is funny and cute. I think I am in love with him. I don't know what to do about it."

"Girl, I don't know what to tell you. From past experience I would say honesty is always the best policy. Tell him right up front about your self. I know you don't want to hurt him."

She gave me a little smile, "Thank you Rich, that is what I had already decided to do. Can you get him out to the house tomorrow and let me see him alone for a few minutes?"

"I think that can be arranged, dear."

I called John Norton in the morning and told him a car was waiting for him at the front entrance of his hotel. He arrived about 45 minutes later. I told him that Sally didn't feel up to traveling this morning. We went into the den. Sally and Dori joined us. John stood and said, "Mrs. Murphy you look lovely this morning, and I never realized pregnant women could be so beautiful."

Sally blushed and thanked him. "I am glad you think so. I would kiss your cheek but my twin boys won't let me get near anyone."

His eyes were wide open, "Twin boys?"

"Yes, Rich is very potent."

"Congratulations to both of you. I am envious."

I asked, "Have you ever been married?"

"Yes when I was in college I got married but it didn't work out, no kids so we walked away with just what we brought into the marriage, nothing."

We went on to discuss several ideas he had for Princess. He thought that one trip should be from Palatka to Silver Springs, leaving Saturday morning and stopping at a convenient spot for the night, then arriving at Silver Springs early on Sunday afternoon. The return trip would leave Monday afternoon and overnight again and arrive at Palatka early Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday before noon there would be a luncheon cruise on the St. Johns River, returning mid-afternoon. Wednesday evening there would be an evening Dinner cruise, again on the St. Johns River, returning later that night. Thursday another luncheon cruise and dinner cruise. Friday would be spent in port in Palatka. 

We talked for a while and decided to give his idea a test run. We would invite various officials and members of the press as well as travel agents and excursion promoters. John would work up a list of people to invite. Questionnaires would be passed out so we could refine the trips. We would also ask what our guests thought a reasonable fare would be. We thought the fare and the number of trips offered might vary with the season.

I offered John lunch and he accepted. I left the den and told the cook there would be an extra guest for lunch to be seated next to Miss Georgie. We talked for another half an hour and then went to the dinning room for lunch. John's face lit up with joy when he saw Georgie. She smiled sweetly at him and asked him to set next to her. Lunch was excellent. The cooks from our food prep department were refining the meals to be served on the cruises.

The meals were much better than that first luncheon we had aboard PRINCESS. John had never been aboard PRINCESS so I asked Georgie if she would mind showing John around the boat after lunch. She grinned at him as she agreed.

John went back to Ocala that afternoon. Georgie got her new car and left to try it out. She called two hours later and said she was having dinner with John Norton and would be home by eleven. Georgie started working in our offices in Silver Springs. John was working there too.

She stayed in town and had dinner with John every evening but was home by ten or eleven. Friday afternoon She and John were invited to have dinner with us. They arrived about four thirty.

Later that afternoon Georgie walked into the den where I was working alone on some things. She was radiantly happy, "You were right, he loves me, he doesn't care if I was born a boy. I told him I was going to have the operation and he said he would go with me no matter where I went for it. He is so sweet. I let him kiss me too! Wow! Fireworks! I wanted to jump in his bed every night but I didn't. This one is for keeps. I don't want a quickie; I want a lifetime commitment." 

I smiled at her as she ran out of breath. "You think he is a keeper, do you?"

"Oh! Yes! He is wonderful, a very special honest and straight forward man." She looked at me, "Can I beg one more favor from you. You can keep the car and everything; just transfer him up here. Please, please. I don't want him to go back to Miami. I love it here. I don't want to move. I will if I have to. I am going to be with him."

"Georgie, I will leave it up to him, I will offer him the job as director of promotions for the Steamboat line with a nice raise if he moves up here. Will that do it?"

"Oh! That is wonderful! I just know he will jump on it. At least I pray that he will."

"Give me a kiss and go see if you can find him."

She must have had him parked somewhere close by because she dragged him the den in about three minutes flat. They stood before me holding hands. I smiled at him. "I want to make you an offer. Would you be interested in taking over as the Director of marketing and Promotions for the Steamboat Line? The job will give you about a 50% raise in pay, but the bad part is that you will have to move up here." 

He grinned, "Hell yes. I would love that, when can I start?"

"Is Monday too soon? Get us moving with these promotional and training trips and then you can take some paid leave to move up here. Do you own or rent in Miami?"

"I lease a condo there."

"We will pay your moving expenses and take over your condo until the lease expires. OK?" He grinned and nodded.

I looked at Georgie, "OK, you can put the pistol down now."

John looked quickly at her. "You told me you wouldn't ask any favors."

I jumped in before she answered, "She had nothing to do with it at all. We decided we wanted you up here with us after your presentation the other day. Sally and Doris and I discussed the whole thing while Georgie was showing you the PRINCESS. Georgie was not involved in the decision making process. She did just offer to give up her job and all her perks if we could find a job for you up here. She said that if not she would follow you to Miami."

John turned and looked down at her. "You were going to do that to be with me?" She nodded solemnly.

I said, "John, I thing she kind of likes you."

"Mr. Murphy, I hope and pray that she does. She is the most wonderful and beautiful person I have ever met. I must admit she really disturbs my concentration; she sneaks into my mind dozens of times a day. When we are very far apart it gets worse. I really don't know what to do. I have never experienced any thing like this before."

"Son I know exactly how you feel. My lovely wife does the same thing to me. Marrying her just made it worse, but I love it. I don't think there is a cure. I really hope there isn't one."

"Sir, I am not sure who to ask but I think I need to tell you I am courting her now with great ardor. I would like to have you permission to continue my courtship of Georgie. My intentions are honorable in every way."

"John, I have reason to believe your intentions are honorable. She is in effect my stepsister. Georgie do you want him to continue to press his suit?"

"Yes! Yes I really want that."

"Then, John, you have my blessings. God help you young man. She can be delightfully wonderful and then she can be a totally insufferable bitch at times."

"Sir, I know about the first part and I believe that will compensate for the bitch part."

I laughed, "I suspect you are right."

There was a knock on the door to my den. I looked up and Dori looked in, "Rich, you need to come and look at Sally, I think her contractions have started."

"I'm on my way." I pulled out my Sat-phone and pressed a speed dial number. I said, "Please start and warm up your engines. We may need you soon. Stand by." I ran after Dori and found Sally on the bed. She held her hands out to me. Her face was covered with sweat and tears ran from her eyes. I had her doctor on the phone by now. She reassured me that everything was normal. She told me to time the period between contractions. She said that this stage could last for hours, especially in a first birth. She asked if there had been any discharge of blood. I asked Sally and she said there had been a small seepage of bloody matter. The doctor said that the contractions would be getting regular and closer together and also more painful. I was stating to sweat now. God this was scary stuff. I kissed my sweet wife and held her hand. It was almost half an hour before she squeezed my hand hard and moaned a little bit. The next contraction came in about ten minutes. We talked about the schedules for the boats and decided we would have to stay flexible until we got a better grip on what was happening. The advanced bookings should give us an indication of what we could expect. Sally suggested that we could have the afternoon trips be singles only trips. Then we could rent the cabins on an hourly basis. Dori insisted Sally was just thinking that way because she was horny. We had been discussing the trips for about twenty minutes when Sally's next contraction hit. Sally said it was not as bad as the previous one. Fifteen minutes was the next time and Sally said it hurt more than the previous contraction. The next one was twenty minutes in coming. The following one was twenty minutes also and hurt the most of any up till then but she said it wasn't a screamer. She was watching me and said she was worried about me, that I didn't look good. I told her I would be OK. I wasn't going to leave her no matter what. I said, "I feel just like you would feel if the situation was reversed. You don't like to see me in pain do you?"

"I have seen you in pain and hurting and I know exactly how you feel; but this is different for me because this is a joyous pain for me because it is bringing OUR babies. I can't wait to see, hold and nurse them. This is what I was born to do. Just remember, if I am in pain I am loving it."

I looked at Dori, she was holding Sally's other hand. She smiled and said, "Rich you go and get a sandwich and a beer and relax a little. I will be with Sally. I have been through this twice, I suspect we have hours to go."

I kissed Sally and went and found Georgie sitting and holding hands with John. They wanted to know how Sally was. I told them the situation. Georgie ran to me and hugged me and kissed me. Tears ran down her cheeks. "I love Sally too. God! How can you stand this?"

"Georgie, Sally just told me that this is what she was born to do and any pain was a joy for her because it means our babies are getting nearer. I am feeling that joy too. I know deep inside that she is in more danger than she has ever been in her whole life and that I might loose her." I had to stop and sob for a while Georgie held me. I wiped my eyes and said, "I need to get a sandwich and a beer, and this could take hours. Georgie if we rush off to the Hospital John is welcome to use our guest room for the night. I promise to keep you guys informed. I know I would have to chain your sister up to leave her behind."

I found the cook in the kitchen and she wanted to know how Sally was doing. She had sandwiches ready and fixed a plate for me. I told her Sally would be happy to see her and to just go on in. I said I didn't know if Sally was hungry.

She was back in a few minutes and said she was fixing a plate for Miss Sally. She looked at me and said, "I am praying for her." I thanked her. The doorbell rang and Georgie answered it. It was Dad and his new wife, Peggy, and Uncle Ike and his new wife, Patsy; they wanted to know what was happening with Sally. I brought them up to date. I pulled Georgie aside and informed her she was in charge now because I might get busy. I told Miss Patsy and Miss Peggy they could go see Sally and they hurried off. I saw Georgie had a beer for Dad and Uncle Ike. She brought John in and introduced him. He sat with them and drank a beer too. The cook returned and put the large plate of sandwiches in front of everyone. She had potato salad and slaw ready too. Dad asked John if he were courting Georgie. He said he was courting just as hard as he knew how. Dad and Uncle Ike started teasing Georgie about her being next in line to have a baby. They didn't know she was anything other than what she appeared to be. They had no need to know. Georgie joked with them that she and John were a long way from thinking about that. They said you can never tell, and that they were both thinking about it too. Then they laughed like hell. Both of them were in their mid-sixties.




Steamboat Willy Ch. 08



I went in and sat with Sally, Peggy and Patsy while Dori went to get a sandwich, the cook came in with a big fat juicy hamburger with lettuce, tomato, onion, dill pickle, and mustard. Sally ate about half of it, and then she was full. Dori returned and the ladies talked about birthing children. 

I just watched Sally. Her contractions were very painful now and spaced about ten minutes apart. The doctor said to bring her right in. I notified the helicopter and Dori gathered up Sally's things and I picked her up and carried her to the plane. The crew helped me get her settled and we were off.

We were met with a gurney at the hospital heliport and Sally was rushed to the maternity ward. The doctor met us there. Sally was taken to a room while I went down to admitting and signed a bunch of papers. When they found out she was the donor of a new wing for the hospital we got pretty good service. Money not only talks but sometimes it screams. The word got around very quickly. By the time I got back to her room there were photographers there. The director of the hospital was there welcoming her. Sally was not really interested as another contraction hit her. Everyone but a nurse or two and I were ushered out of the room.

It was almost another hour before she as taken to the birthing room. The doctor met us there. I sat in a chair out of the way while the doctor talked softly with Sally. Sally kept looking to make sure I was there. She smiled and said, "I love you." I had to wipe the tears from my eyes. They got Sally into a gown and I was allowed to sit by her in a chair and hold her hand, she was so brave and smiled up at me in complete trust that I wouldn't let anything bad happen. I patted her hand and leaned over and kissed her and told her I loved her. She smiled tenderly at me and said, "I know you do dear. Where is Dori."? 

I looked at the doctor, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "She is allowed in here." I got up and went out and saw Dori and Dad and Uncle Ike and their wives sitting in the waiting area. I thanked them for being there and looked at Dori, "Sally is asking for you girl." She jumped up and I followed her to the room.

Sally smiled when she saw us. "Where have you been?"

Dori said, "I got shoved out with everybody else and they wouldn't let me back in. How are you feeling?"

"Right now I feel fine. When the contractions hit they are worse and worse. I think that is normal. At least it is what I expect." Dori and Sally talked and I sat back in a corner out of the way. Sally looked around and finally saw me. "Don't you dare leave me, Rich." I got up and moved near her. "I told you I would be here." Her eyes got very wide and she let out a loud moan. "It really hurts now."

I couldn't see the doctor but I heard her say, "She is fully dilated now, it wont be long now. Sally I want you to push on the next contraction, OK?"

Sally sucked in her breath and I saw the pain wash across her face. She grunted and squeezed my hand very hard. The doctor said, "Get ready Sally the next one should come soon, I see the top of his head." Sally grinned at me and then her eyes popped wide and she gripped my hand and I saw her holding her breath as she pushed hard. 

"Push again, Girl" yelled the doctor," here he comes, He's turning now and out he comes. He is beautiful." A baby's scream split the air. "Tie off the cord while I hold him. Oh! He's going to be a red head. Relax for a minute and we will see how far back his brother is. You can cut the cord now and clean him up, nurse." Sally's eyes fixed on mine. "How does he look 'Daddy'?" I hadn't taken my eyes off of Sally's face. I looked down at the child and took a quick inventory. "He has all the standard equipment. He is wonderful. I don't think he wanted to eave your warm sweet belly 'Momma'; he liked it in there. He has a fine set of lungs." I held both of Sally's hands and Dori held the child and held it close to Sally. Sally's face scrunched up as she looked at her son for the first time. Sally said, "I want to hold Billy but I think his buddy, Mike is ready to join him."

The Doctor said, "You are right Sally, I see the top of his head now, get ready, sweetie, a couple of more pushes should do it." 

A couple of days later I saw how our life had changed. The whole universe revolved around two little boys. The two little redheads ruled with an iron hand. When they were hungry they expected a nice warm teat full of milk to be instantly pressed into their little mouths. If it didn't happen they would immediately let us know of their displeasure.

I was as involved as I could get in the care of the boys. I changed diapers and gave baths. When they awoke at night it was almost always both of them crying. I would get up and check them out, change them if necessary then take them and put them in bed with Sally who was always ready for them to nurse. They would slurp away happily and fall asleep when they were full. I would carry them back to their cribs, burp them and stagger back to cuddle with my sleeping wife. 

What saved my life is that sweet, sweet Dori would take a turn with them every now and then. It was more of a chore for her because she had to make two trips each way because she was unable to handle two of them at once.

Sally insisted Dori and I sleep in the guest bedroom and we would start off that way each night. We would make love and then I would go snuggle up to Sally. She never failed to kiss me as I climbed in with her. She would thank me and tell me she loved me. Several times I tried to go straight to bed with Sally but she insisted I make love to Dori first. Many times both Dori and I would slip into bed with Sally after making love.

Sally had it in her mind that I need to make love every night. She told me it was to keep me from wandering. I wasn't about to argue about that. Sally started working out and walking every day. She was determined to regain her figure. Dori did everything with Sally to keep her company. Dori insisted that her stretch marks disappeared because Maria had rubbed her belly, and butt with fresh aloe every day. Dori did it for Sally. I did it for her too. I enjoyed it a lot but got very excited. It was about seven weeks before she told me we could make love. Dori insisted I be alone with Sally for several nights before she joined us in our bed again. The three of us slept together from then on. I couldn't believe how the three of us got along so well. There was never a cross word between the two girls. I believe they re telepathically linked to one another. I swear they know what the other is thinking without a word being said. Often one of them will start a sentence and the other will complete it. 

They love to gang up on me and they tease me unmercifully but always in good fun and never in a really hurtful way. If I pretend my feelings are hurt they will both cry over it. I tease them too but I am very careful to never ever compare one to the other in any way. I had done it on one or two occasions and saw the hurt in their eyes; I tried to cover it up and was pretty successful at it. Once I said, "Sally, I wish you could soul kiss as well as Dori." I saw the hurt and smoothly continued. "Maybe Dori can teach you how and you can teach her how to caress my balls like you do while you give me a blow job. I want both of you to teach me how you drive the other up the wall when you eat each other out."

I received an extensive education in pussy eating. I knew just how to please each of them.

Things were coming along very well with the steamboat company and we had sent out invitations for the different types of trips on PRINCESS and WILLY. WILLY was not near as much trouble because no food was served aboard. PRINCESS had several different trips requiring different menus. Georgie had surprised us all by rapidly gaining control of the purchasing and the preparation of the meals.

Tom and Frank had completed clearing the river and we made several trips to acquaint the pilots with the turns and the currents they would encounter. We ran the trips several times and had plotted the precise track the pilot should follow to make the smoothest trip. The track even showed when to use the bow thrusters to help with the turns. Tom and I tried an experiment one day I put a mask on that had blinders built in so that I couldn't see out of the pilothouse but could see the GPS plotter on a large monitor that also showed the radar picture superimposed.

I was able to run the whole trip without seeing out of the cabin. This could be invaluable in an emergency. The track also pointed out the points of interest along the way, such as historical spots, fort sites, landings and places such as Payne's Landing where several important treaties were signed with the Indians during the Seminole Indian Wars. This information was shown on a small computer monitor at the appropriate times. The Captain or the Pilot could announce these points of interest of speakers through out the boat.

John Norton did a masterful job with the invitations and had the trial runs filled with VIPs. He assured me that from the interest he was getting from travel agents the bookings should do well. We had film crews from the TV travel programs and from the History Channel. There was a lot of interest.

John and Georgie were cute to watch, they were never over a foot away from each other. We had a new mobile home on order for them to put in our compound. They spent many hours at our home. John and I became very close. We respected each other. I couldn't believe how fascinated Georgie was by the babies. She would disappear while they were at our house and John could always find her with the babies, often just sitting and watching them sleep.

We had hired Josie, a cousin of Maria's, as a nanny for Billy and Mike. She worked out well and was a big help. She fell in love with our boys. Sally had a little problem adjusting to the help because she felt it was her duty to spend all their waking moments with them. She was a bit jealous too. Dori convinced her she could enjoy life a little bit and still be a good mother. The boys helped convince her by the way they always wanted Sally to hold them if she was in sight. They would hold out their arms and fuss until she picked them up. Then they would coo and be content. Sally said they just knew who the milk cow was. We were fortunate Sally had plenty of milk. I even got a sip now and then. I loved it and the dispenser was nice too.

The first overnight trip with passengers aboard was completed flawlessly. Every one raved about the trip saying it was like a trip in a time machine back to the mid-1800s. The crew were all dressed in appropriate costume of course and the food brought raves about how authentic it was as well as being delicious. The questioners were examined and only one minor complaint was registered and that was that the cabins were too small. There was not much we could do about that because the dimensions were the same as on the original boat.

Sally and Dori and I were all aboard to start with but Sally was airlifted back home to feed the twins. She returned the next morning for a few hours then she and Dori went home again. We didn't have any trouble cruising at night. The firebox mounted on top the pilothouse was an artificial log fueled by propane gas. We also had many hand held modern battery powered lights.

We were very pleased with the whole trip. We did not make the return trip to Palatka. I talked to John the next day. He told me that over half the passengers had booked passages on later paying trips. He said he thought we would have a waiting list as soon as the TV shows aired.

He had commercials ready for the local TV stations to run. Newspaper ads were ready too. Brochures for the travel agencies and for the motel and hotel attraction displays were ready too. Both PRINCESS and WILLY were featured in all the material.

Billboards on the major highways were on order. The docks and other facilities were ready to go in Silver Springs and in Palatka. New parking areas were ready and trams were ready to haul passengers from the parking areas to the docks.

We had a meeting with everyone there who was involved in the project. Sally chaired the meeting. She was beautiful in a business suit. The twins and Dori's children were in a nearby room with the nannies. Sally went through a checklist to be sure everything was ready. Each unit from Advertising to Operations gave a status report. When everything was checked off the list as being ready she asked for recommendations for a date for beginning the service.

The consensus was that we should start in twenty days, on Labor Day. It was close to the start of the tourist season. It would give the locals some time to enjoy the cruises before the season really hit. I closed the meeting. Everyone involved deserved congratulations on a job well done I mentioned several people I though deserved extra credit for the great jobs they had done.

I mentioned John Norton, the boat crews and had special praise for Miss Georgie who had done such a fine job with procurement for the food department that she was now the purchasing agent for the whole company, She bought everything we used, including fuel, tools, costumes, uniforms and trucks and cars. Everyone who worked for her and with her and those she bought from loved her. I told her we were all proud of her. She stood up and thanked everyone then said it was easy because she had the best Big Bosses in the whole world, Sally and Richmond Murphy.

The next two and a half weeks went very smoothly. We were sold out for every cruise for the next four months. The crews were trained and ready to go. We had a variety of jobs for the crews. There were different crews For PRINCESS and WILLY. PRINCESS had three Captains. There were six pilots, five of whom were black. The deck hands were mostly black too. The engineers were mostly white while the firemen were blacks. The cooks, stewards and waiters were mostly blacks. This was in line with how the boats were staffed in the 1800s. Most of the crew worked four hours on and four hours off while on a cruise. There were housekeeping crews and maintenance people at both ends of the trips, These people swarmed aboard and cleaned and changed linens and restocked food and liquors and refueled the boat. Most of the long trip crewmen worked three days and were off four. They still got over forty hours a week. The housekeepers were based in Palatka and drove in a van to Silver Springs to service the PRINCESS when she arrived They were back in Palatka when she returned there. The rest of the week they serviced her for the short trips.

WILLY's crews had only four men, Captain, Engineer and two Deckhand/Stewards. We had enough trained crewmen to fill in for the sick or absent people on both boats. We were lucky to have Tom, Dori's ex-husband and his partner, Frank, to train and administer the crews. Tom and Frank could also fill in as Captains if needed. We had a number of men who were qualified to do a number of jobs and were paid extra for those skills. Dori was our Director of personel and did a fine job She had a skilled assistant who enabled her to do most of her work from her home office.

On the home front the twins were growing like weeds and Sally was still nursing them but was augmenting it with a bottle. Sally had a home office too. We added two new mobile homes both joined to the others by enclosed walks. 

One home was for John and Georgie who were now living together. The other was divided into separate offices for Sally and Dori. They had a shared secretary who helped them a lot. The office building had a nursery and playroom plus an extra office. Georgie had her eye on that but she also loved working in the same building as John in town. She had her gender change operation scheduled in two months and she wouldn't marry John until the operation was a success. Property prices being what they were now we decided to use a part of our acreage and put up a large steel building for office spaces for the Steamboat lines. On corner of our land bordered on a major highway and we decided to put warehouse space there along with the offices. We wanted a food commissary there too so we planned for huge frozen food lockers. This would enable Georgie to make volume purchases of frozen meats and store them for long periods.

She suggested building new food preparation and cooking facilities adjacent to the warehouses and freezers. The way things were set up now the warehouse we used was twelve miles from the kitchens and it had limited cold storage facilities and even less freezer space. Food was often shipped from the warehouse to prep facility then to the kitchen, from the kitchen, back to food prep and assembly then shipped to Silver Springs or Palatka. Neither food prep nor assembly had the correct storage facilities to hold prepared and ready to serve products at the necessary various proper temperatures. We told Georgie to call Miami and have them send the expert planers and engineers and have them design an expandable facility with every thing under one roof including comfortable office spaces and plenty of covered parking for all employees.

I took Georgie aside and had a talk with her. I said, "Girl, relax as best you can. Tell the designers what you want and let them run with it, they do this every day. The people coming to help with the design have done similar facilities for airline caterers, Railroads, Cruise lines and for things we never thought of. Pick their brains. If they are shown what you do now and told how you think you want it then show them the boat galleys, the refrigerators and storage lockers aboard ship and at the docking facilities. Show them how we transport the meals now; see if they have better ideas. This is what they do. Use them then sit back and concentrate of what is really important, your operation. She threw her arms around my neck and kissed me on the lips.

I grinned at her, "Honey, put me down for a test run when you are all well." She laughed, "Only if you get permission from John, Sally and Dori."

"You know I am only teasing, we both have to much to loose and couldn't stand to hurt the people we love so much. Do not ask me to take you on a boat ride alone though."

"Aw shucks, not even a little bitty one."

"Please don't tempt me girl. You are still gorgeous and I am a mere man."

"Rich, I do love you. I love you more than I did then; I also love both your wives more than ever. The biggest thing is that now I have my John. I will never hurt him. NEVER! So Forgeddaboutit." 

I took her little hands in mine and held them. "Little girl, I am very proud of you. I couldn't be prouder if you were my real sister. I love you Sis." I looked at my watch. "Come on let's take a walk." She said, "OK? John called and said he would be a little late." We walked along and I led her toward the dock. She looked up at me and smiled and I thought I saw a trace of concern in her eyes. I pointed. "Do you see that?"

"What?"

"The new boat behind WILLY."

"Oh! She is beautiful, I love that red color." We walked right up to the boat. She pointed and said, "OH God Rich look!" She pointed up at the name board on the canopy. It said 'MISS GEORGIE.' 

Then with a shout John, Dori, Sally, and a crowd of other people said, 'SUPRISE!'

She clapped and jumped up and down. She was so damned cute. She ran and jumped in John's arms and kissed him. I saw tears in both John's and Georgie's eyes. He held her for a long time. Finally I said, "Let's get the show on the river. We are going to try a 'cocktail' cruise." It was John's idea and we all liked it. We had a portable bar aboard with a bartender; a steward served canapés and hors d'oeuvres. It was a quite pleasant two-hour cruise. Every one loved it. The crew was all dressed in white uniforms appropriate to the 1850-65 period. A guitarist sang and old melodies with a little modern Country thrown in for good measure.