RCG * * * I drove as fast as I could to the apartment. Debbie was still holding John and sobbing, ‘I love you.’ John was still unconscious. I pu...led into the complex and Tom said, ‘Park as close as you can to the door.’ I pulled up within a feet of the apartment’s front door in a ‘No Parking Fire Zone.’ Tom gave Debbie the key and said, ‘Get the door open and go to the utility room and get the two rolls of gray duct tape off the shelf. I’m going to have to tie him up—when he regains. The neighbors all began to show up, each one with trays of food. One thing about country people is they knew how to cook. A lot of my buddies showed up. Some were in college and others worked in the area. A few helped their dads on the farm.Another car pulled up and two women got out along with two kids. It was Jessie and her sister Anita with her two kids. Jessie was crying as she came to meet me. When did she become so emotional? I hugged her and her sister. Anita introduced me to her kids. I. Make an image of a bow, an unstrung bow. Place it inside the wood branch. Now remove the particles that don’t match the image.‘That is such an old line that it was around when I was, ‘ Beth chortled in Béla’s mind, remembering an artist explaining how to chisel a statue from a big square piece of stone.She watched closely as an almost silent rendering occurred at the bottom end of the branch. Tiny wood particles were flying into the air, suddenly separated from the main branch. The rendering. She was wearing a maid’s frock, like the maids wore at Matthias and Edgar’s manor house in the exclusive whitewood area of the city. This aroused young Matthias all the more as he looked miss Robertson up and down greedily taking her every curve in. Suddenly Matthias realised that all eyes, including the girl’s were on him. ‘That’s all for now my man’ said Lord Edgar to the beady eyed barman, who nodded and reluctantly shuffled out of the room. ‘Well, happy birthday Matthias. Are you not going.