Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:56:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: todd weston <toddweston21@btinternet.com>
Subject: sandy and bud ricks 10

THE ADVENTURES OF SANDY AND BUD RICKS

CHAPTER 10- STATEGY AND MOVEMENT

Bud found himself tethered to a tree in a similar manner to the other two
boys. He was sat down and a leather belt put round his waist and from his
back, a long rope was fixed to and around the trunk of a palm tree. Once
settled, he found he could have easily moved within a large circle so he
could clearly get to the water's edge and to inside the stand of trees;
however, at this precise moment he just leant against the tree whilst they
all ate and drank. He had hoped to able to talk freely to the other boys
but the two smugglers sat and ate as well, although the younger when
finished just sat and grinned at Bud.

After a boring half an hour or so, the man stood and handed a flare gun to
the teen and once having delivered to him another speech in Spanish,
departed for the camp carrying the empty sack. Bud wanting to take this
opportunity to talk to the boys, only received a finger against the taller
boy's lips which with simple gestures indicating to wait till their guard
was asleep. Bud wanted to tell the boy that the guard did not speak English
but it seemed pointless; then, it occurred to him that perhaps it was the
man that spoke poor English, so he settled down to wait.

Sandy was woken by noise on the bedroom stairs. He entangled himself from
Van who was still snoring. The bedroom door opened and light shone in,
exposing Chip who seemed to be out of breath. Quickly he told the blonde to
come to the operations room but to leave Van asleep- as the teen got up
from the bed, Chip added that he was to cover himself up with more than
just his jock as they did not wish to be distracted. Chip disappeared
allowing Sandy to don his jock and cut-offs before following him out of the
bedroom.

There was a group around the map table and Sandy immediately noticed Brad
Nash still in his red stitch basketball shorts but now with a sweatshirt
above- as well as Frank happily clinging to his side whilst clearly a seat
had been left for Sandy which once sat upon attracted Joe to hang onto the
blonde.

There was as Chip put it little time to engage in play, at this time,
although if did not prevent Joe's fingers from finding Sandy's right
nipple. Chip gave the information and plans.

A message had been received that a spotter plane had noticed two ginger
headed boys in a boat being towed towards Great Smeaton Island earlier in
the evening ^Ö by now Sandy had realised that it was past ten o'
clock. There was already belief that it was Bud and Dan as they could also
see a dolphin in the vicinity. At this point Brad anguished over having not
found Dan and although Sandy's thoughts were mainly for his brother he did
find Brad's second comment on firmly dealing with Dan when eventually he
caught up with him as more than interesting. Chip continued that although
this complicated matters, as regard the M and C's actions, they now
intended to do an early reconnaissance which they would form a part. It was
already known from the plane that the smugglers had a camp on Great Smeaton
and that their ship was anchored offshore. The movement time for action was
for 9.00 a.m. the following morning, but, now partly to see if they could
locate Bud and Dan plus to provide additional information, a party lead by
Chip would leave at daybreak tomorrow.

Chip would lead the boat out from here and rendezvous with another boat
manned by Mason in the Outer Sound, and they would proceed to Little
Smeaton from where they would travel to the northern end of Great Smeaton
equipped with radio, walkie-talkies and binoculars. Van would accompany
them and after an argument both Brad and Sandy were admitted to the group.

Sandy made known that he and his brother had a secret cave and store on
Little Smeaton and that it would be a suitable place to hold up once the
conflict was underway.

Much to both Joe and Frank's annoyance, they were to stay and man the
operations room. As a further disappointment, they heard that the relief
and his wife were reporting back after their night shift so it would be
full uniform when they arrived. Joe made a mumbling sound at this order but
when Frank retorted that it would by then their bedtime, Joe grinned and as
Sandy looked over at Frank he noticed that somehow during the meeting
Frank's hand had found its way inside both Brad's basketball shorts and
scarlet swimbriefs and at that moment it was hardly still.

Chip now ordered Frank and Joe to man the operations room with a reminder
to wake him up at 4.30 a.m. and with that he ordered Brad to the spare
bedroom. When Brad suggested he share with Sandy, Chip informed him of Van,
so the college boy announced that sleeping alone in the spare bed would
have to do. After Brad had left, it only took the look on the corporal's
face for Sandy to realise that the teen would not be sleeping alone.

Bud had nodded off and when he awoke it was dark although he could see a
glow from a fire at the other end of the island. He let his eyes adjust to
the moonlight and then realised that all the others were asleep.

He was able to slide over to the taller boy and once having put a hand over
his mouth, woke him. The black haired boy woke uneasily but soon remembered
his situation and pointed to the back of the trees where, after moving as
quietly as they could, talked quietly, although the boy was quite happy to
snuggle into Bud's lap before their conversation began.

The information Bud gleaned was that the boy's name was Ben and that his
friend was Peter but was called Petey. They had been unintentional
passengers on the motor launch and they had travelled from the Florida
Keys. The boat was part of Petey's father's fleet and they had expected him
to be on the boat and they were going to surprise him- but he wasn't there-
it had been Petey's uncle and to say he was unhappy to see them was an
understatement. He was doing some wrong kind of deal according to Petey and
the smugglers had bought them up here, stripped them to their whities and
tied them up They'd been treated ok and promised they'd not be harmed, but
they were to stay here till tomorrow. Bud could se that Ben was still
anxious so he told him that people would be looking for him, as he only
lived along the coast. Then he added that if they could slip their tethers
then they could swim across to the other island where they would be
safe. Ben suggested that the plan was good although Petey wasn't a strong
swimmer- to which Bud added that he'd help him. Ben then turned to kiss Bud
on the cheek.  Finally before settling back, Bud asked Ben for his second
name and once he knew it was Nash, he realised the connection.


As Sandy climbed back into bed, Van pulled him into him and asked where he
had been, Once the full explanation had left the teen's lips, Van sighed
and explained to the blonde that they had better sleep for they would both
need all their energy for tomorrow's tasks.

Bud opened his eyes. Ben was lying across his lap; in the moonlight he saw
Dan had been brought from the camp. Wearing what could only be descried as
a crude grass skirt, he was snuggled up to the now naked young smuggler.