"After our meal, we all piled into my car and went down to look at the old mill. It sat on a wide corner of the road, with a lovely little stream mean...ering at its own pace alongside it."The location's lovely." I said, but when we went in a rat scurried across the floor in front of us."Ugh," Karen exclaimed, but Poppy drew on her vast knowledge of these things and informed her that Frog would sort the rats out!"Daddy showed me a rat that Frog killed once," she said importantly."I don't think. "Isn't this the first time we've met?" God no," she cried, "I first saw you when we were... ," and suddenly everything fell into place. This was my long lost girl, the one I'd first encountered returning from New Orleans. The one I'd been worrying about ever since. I immediately pulled her to me and held her like she was going to disappear from my life once again. She continued to cry and mumble things, but I couldn't make much sense of what she was saying I was so happy to finally have her in. ” I leaned heavily against him, making sure that my breast pressedwarmly against his arm. I couple of phony limping steps and I fellback onto the couch, my skirt “accidentally” sliding up my thighs. “You’ve played sports in school, haven’t you, Jim,” I asked. “Sure,” he answered. “Football and track.” “Well, you must have seen all sorts of injuries,” I continued.”Maybeyou could take a look at my leg. . ? Svetlana?s entire body disappeared under the water. ?Ok Aaron I think the gator?s got her. She can?t scream under that water. I think you can throw the bag into the water too,? Duke suggested. Aaron saw what happened at the lake. He could have sworn that its surface was turning red?from Svetlana?s blood. Aaron just stood there. ?Here give me that,? Bill took the bag from Aaron and with one strong throw, the bag landed into the lake?s water. Not far from where the gator was?feasting on.