The inspectors had been watching and signed off on the foundation. That ended the first two weeks.The crane came. Load after load of concrete slab sho...ed up. Teams of men glued up the edges of the slabs and constructed a temporary scaffolding to hold the slabs in place until the adhesive cured. The adhesive used was stronger than the concrete. The outer slabs had a surface treatment that looked as if giant brush strokes had been made along the length of the surfaces. A facade would not be. “Might be” Joe replied. “Let’s get it out of there and see what’s going on” he offered and padded outside barefoot and went to his van.Joe returned with a handful of tools and lay on the floor with his head in the cupboard under the sink. I simply stayed where I was and stared at his groin as he lay on his back in a prone position with legs akimbo. He was undoing screws and tapping and pushing and shoving until after a few minutes I heard Joe hum.“Hmmmm!” Joe offered. “Here’s your problem.”I. Melanie made a face at him and giggled, jumping out of the car and disappearing in the crowd.Mr. Klinton's dress shop was practically empty. Everyone had gone out to hear Lance Hardman's speech, and the disgruntled shop keepers were left without customers. So, Mr. Klinton was delighted when Melanie Wilkerson, one of his better customers, tripped in to see him.He showed her the line of expensive silks just imported from France, and Melanie surveyed them for a long while, picking two she liked;. It was immediately obvious to Linda that these kids were still shaken from what they had seen and simply not capable of this kind of atrocity. When she assured the parents that the boy and girl were simply witnesses to the aftermath of the crime, the parents grew more cooperative and encouraged the teens to provide any and all information they could. Yet that was little, and nothing they didnʼt already know. So a fruitless thirty minutes later the kids and parents were on their way and Linda.