Practically the whole village turned out for Jill's funeral, which we found very moving, we'd only been there for a couple of days and yet they'd take... time off work, closed their businesses or whatever, all to pay their respects to someone they hardly knew. Every single one of them shook my hand and muttered condolences as they filed out past mum and I and for that little show of respect, we both sat down and wrote out thank you cards to them all when we got home with a list from the local. Art had cut several pine boughs, tied them to the back of the toboggan so they would erase our tracks a bit. I pulled them until we made the turn onto our river. We stopped to check on everybody and throw the boughs under some trees to hide them before continuing on our way. The remaining residents of the mining camp must have been watching for us because everybody was in front of the hanger when we pulled up.All the women took over from that point. I thought Mandy and Mindy would be spending. I loved you Rob, I really did, but somehow when I was comforting Bill or trying to get him over the depression from losing Cindy, I felt the love that was there so long ago and it suddenly burst into flame again and I was lost. I thought I would go away for a while, maybe to Florida to see Shelly and help her when the baby comes. Maybe by then you won't be so mad that you want to kill me too. I want to..." She lost it then and sank to the floor sobbing."I don't think going to Shelly's is a good. "Then get on your feet and get those clothes off."Tom stood in front of her with his hands on his hips waiting. She was slow to respond, but she was moving. Before she managed to get even one of the large numbers of buttons undone, she found her voice. "But sir, you can't mean that. Please don't make me do that, it isn't right sir." Tom didn't answer her but just stared into her eyes, as her hands moved to her throat and started on the tiny buttons at the collar."You already told me what others.