He might get hurt that I would deceive him. Ididn't want to hurt him. He was... too good for that.But while we were swept up in the whirlpool of conve...sation, the timehad gotten late. The clock was ticking away, and it was almost eveningnow. Our little lunch had far exceeded the limited hours supposed to bereserved for 'lunchtime.' Frederick did not seem to be in much of ahurry to leave, though. With his daughter visiting her friend for asleepover, Frederick had no reason to rush. But. You were I seem to recall a frequent visitor to this office. In fact I think I still have some of the snapshots that Mr. Alford used to take, you'll remember him I'm sure. No longer with us but his artistic legacy remains." What started to unfold surprised both Jane and the Headmaster although in slightly different ways. With each instruction Jane lost more and more of her garments. The clock seemed to wind back through the years as Jane fellows once again undressed herself while the Headmaster. "But if I was you, I'd be very, very careful. Don't mind me buttin' in, willya? I'll go make the tea." There was an ominous tone of foreboding in her voice that made Jill shiver.In his sumptuous suite at the Fairmont Towers, Ernesto Garcia was having a quiet but intent conversation with the burly printer, Jack Dawson. They were examining a lithograph together."Genius. Absolute genius, Jack. This is your best device to date," Garcia enthused. He had carefully peeled back the outer bond paper on. Come to find out later the 8th was a very bad day. An early tropical storm blew suddenly out of the Gulf and submerged everything between Corpus Christi and Freeport. There was major flooding and roads were washed out everywhere. No one could travel anywhere for the next two days and it would have been dangerous indeed if our guests had been driving on those small county roads to Lovett under those circumstances. The decision to change the date probably saved lives and I never forgot it. Lucy.