Indeed, the season had turned.As dusk began to fall one evening, an old tramp came trudging down a country lane, heading for nowhere and not in a hurr... to get there. But as he paused to take breath, he heard a child scream from beyond the hedgerow. When he pushed through to see what had happened, he saw a tragic scene. A young child had broken through the thawing ice on a small lake and was floundering in the chilling waters,Instinctively, he rushed across the field to the edge of the lake and. ..So here I was, at work, waiting to get off, and since the only way I knew to meet Walter was to be on the road on the way home, I had no other ride home. Well, 11 pm came and I left the restaurant and started on my walk, taking my time, stopping now and then to take my time. I was about 1/2 way home when a car pulled over and as I looked inside I saw it was my girlfriend Joanne with her sister Marie driving. They had decided to meet me at work and had missed me so headed towards my place. He knew, that day was coming, sooner or later. If only, there was some other way. He knew that there was no other way they could go. He cried like a baby after that. His fingers were trembling way too much to even try to type and send her an email. He would have to call her.She answered the phone, while wiping the sleep from her eyes. She had not slept much last night. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw his piercing blue-eyes. Then she'd call out his name and hug her pillow. Finally,. But — not just by my good fortune, if you understand me – every one of them had to be put down to natural causes or as unfortunate accidents. To be honest, by that time in my life, I was of the opinion that it was far better if they did die, because at least I didn’t have the authorities chasing me around looking for a con man when I did my runner bit. Changing my identity all the time was becoming a bit of a pain in the arse by then. Anyway, I’d just established myself as Andrew Swingfield.