I look up at her and say " Why are you here and not Kendra " ? She looks at me sort of sheepishly and says, Oh my god, when did you realize it was me?...I tell her I knew it was her and not Kendra the moment she walked in. She sat on my lap, put her arms around me and kissed me softly. I asked her again why she was here in Kendra's place. Well... ummmm she said, we kind of made a bet. Kendra bet me that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between us. I wasn't supposed to actually sleep. Oh GOD! Please..." Her pleading continued while Kirk continued towork, fumbling about his body, then hers clumsily. Kim pushed and battedat him furiously, it was like hitting a tree trying to knock it down. Theonly thing she was accomplishing was injuring her hands. She had to get out of the house. If she stayed here Kirk would rape her.This was no longer an unsubstantiated belief now, it was a certainty. Oncehe was done, well she couldn't be left around to tell mommy and bigbrother now could. ‘We shoulda got us a dog instead,’ Calvin Tompkins had said. He was generally a good man and father, but was prone to insulting verbal tirades. The adoption of the little girl was his idea, to distract his wife from the losses of their own children. Polio took their teenaged daughter Daisy during the depths of the depression, and their son Cal Jr., who had been enjoying his exotic, Hawaiian assignment on the USS Oklahoma, was killed on a Sunday morning the previous December. So, they raised the. They were hoping that the fires would keep any Goblins from following their retreat.The attack was timed perfectly and not expected. This added to the effectiveness and allowed for their easy retreat. None followed mostly because they were not prepared to be attacked in this large a formation, it simply had never been done everyone always fled when they marched in large formations such as this one.All four wagons were totally lost to the fire. There had been so much surprise and shock that it.