Moving slowly he entered the room. Panic seized him, it was a trap! Desperately he fought the swaddling cloth that held him, suddenly it parted. He wa... in hell, surely this was hell.Daphne woke, for a moment she was unaware of her situation, but the bright girl soon understood. "Sir, release me! This is an outrage, I am a citizen of the British Empire - you can not treat me in this abominable way." British Empire! Pish, pash, posh to your recent empire. I come from true Imperial stock, as does. This past week had been one of those times and I was about to remedy that situation.?I’m working on a little surprise for you. I’ll show it to you shortly. I’m almost finished.? I said as I walked back across the yard.?What ever,? she snipped without looking up from her magazine.Around behind the garden shed sat my project. I had acquired some 3? thick, rough sawed oak planks from which I constructed a raised horizontal platform shaped like the letter ?I?. The main beam of the platform was. That night, when we went to bed, I enforced the foot of empty space between us. I didn’t want to, but I did. I also told him what he’d done to me earlier and asked him to try not doing that anymore, because it made me helpless. I didn’t want to be helpless if somebody came through the door on us.I spent a few days wishing Bobby could see a real sniper in action in a real-world situation, but the only way that was going to happen was if we heard about a hostage situation somewhere, or some other. He walked up to the door and held it open for me to enter. The only thing he said to me was, “We’ve been expecting you.”I was in awe. How could they have known I was coming there and how many are, “We”?I stepped into the cabin and my eyes took a moment to adjust to the dim light that was coming from an open fire in the middle of the single room that had a funnel over top of the fire pit that led to the chimney. I could see three more men kneeling on blankets around the fire and one empty.