"You're a right guy, Lieutenant. Thanks for looking in." Hall returnedto his chair as the boy walked out to the terrace. So The Revenger wasplenty! And the kid, how old was he? Twenty? Not a day more. Which madehim eighteen when the Nazi torpedo planes peeled off over the Africanskies and then roared in to send their tin fish into the guts of HisMajesty's own Revenger. Which made him fourteen when the fightingbegan, fourteen when the German pilot officers clicked their heels andmouthed the new phrase "Arriba Espa�a" and flew the Moors from SpanishMorocco to the mainland and touched off the shooting stages of World WarII. "Ay, Teniente," he muttered, "you've made me feel old as hell.Older."