Chapter Eighteen

We had both been promoted on our return from Russia, Jack was now a Captain and had been given a substantial pay rise to go with it and I was now the Commander taking my mentor title two years after his death with my ‘salary’ being paid to Jack for my care. This meant Jack was quite a wealthy young man and with his looks and charm it was not long before the pretty young women began staying over and I would find myself swimming alone in the mornings. I did not censure him he was young and attractive and like the Commander used to say about Thomas ‘let him enjoy himself while he could’. He was never late for our classes, or our training and he worked hard, he spent a lot of his time with our local Veterinary Practice learning everything he could about my physiology. He was taught how to treat cuts, fractures, and breaks, and how to diagnose poisoning among more everyday illnesses. They taught him how to give injections, stitch wounds, and even set bones and supplied him with a very adva