"But he grabbed my arm gently, "No you need to eat while it's still hot."He kept smiling at me as we ate. And I realized I was smiling at him,wonderin... how I got so lucky to find someone like him. And hoping hedidn't turn out to be a creep like my father. The place had been filledwith empty beer cans and booze bottles when I arrived.After breakfast I cleared the table then he stood and said, "Here let medo that, you cooked it I'll clean up. And that will give you the showerfirst." I found that. I gave Bill the phone (I am Janice) and he answered it. I could tell from the shocked look on his face that it wasn’t his son. Then he said “hi Donna” (that is his ex wife’s name) Bill looked right at me and said “yea I can talk, my wife is in the back room sewing so she won’t hear me over the sound of the machine. Well now I knew that he was keeping me in on whatever was going on, I know his ex is a dead beat and we were figuring that she was going to lose the house she bought with the. ... So it was that this afternoon I was trying to find a box of seasonal clothes that I'd had to move in to what I grandly called my "loft", a little roof space accessed through a little hatch in the corner of my room. "Cathy?" I heard Tony shout. I hadn't heard the front door. "Ungh" I replied, my voice muffled by the torch I was holding in my mouth. "Cathy?" his voice was closer this time, as if he was at my bedroom door. He couldn't have seen me. All that would have been visible had he. " "Yes Mr. White. I will go out and get it." John rushed back to his cubicle before the secretary could see him asshe walked to the filing cabinets in the outer office. John was nervous, afeeling of upcoming doom pervaded his senses. Then he remembered themedallion in his briefcase. He opened up the case and took it out. As helooked at it, it seemed that Harriet Tubman was smiling at him, toencourage him on his journey up the organization. He put it around hisneck with the Harriet.