They knew we had gold, even knew exactly which pack animal it was on. Then a couple of weeks later we got word Murphy was found at the claim, shot in ...he back. Twice. There was nothing left of the camp and even his boots and coat were missing. There was no sign of Willie so I’m thinking the worst, that he decided to take it all and then track us down for the rest of it.”We made it back to a town. Dad took a job as a swamper at a saloon. It was all he could find. Gallison chopped wood and I. His face is aged, withered and worn. His cheeks gaunt and skeletal, and his lips scarred by syphilis. He smirks proudly with a devilish grin to the maddening mob. He is the Witchfinder General.The poor soul doomed to die today, is but a young woman. Her youthful beauty has been brutally ravaged and raped by the arduous torture subjected to her over many long, excruciating hours. The rags of her clothing have been torn and stripped, and now they barely cover any inch of her intimacy or dignity.. ‘You’ll get hurt again’ But her inner voice was drowned out by the tingling throughout her body, and the delicious intoxication she felt in her head, like she had maxxed out on too many Chardonnays. She had drunk one glass, well, two, and as the wine relaxed her, she savored the moment of realising that she was going to love loving this man. His eyes looked back at her. He was animated and telling her some anecdote. She wasn’t listening. She was drinking him in. Her mind was a riot of a. More than that, I spotted Walker. I pointed. “He’s ahead of us.”Walker moved along a shelf and stopped when he spotted something. He picked it up, smiled, and glanced back at me. He moved toward me, taking his time. The light around him changed several times before he reached me. “It’s a good thing you followed me,” he said. “I might not have found my way out.” Then he pushed his way past me, knocking me down.The key I had been holding bounced once on the metal floor and then.