" I tried to probe his mind and found that he was more than what he claimed; he was in fact my biological father. I will need to search this more clos...ly in the near future, but for now I need to talk to him. What can he tell me?"Hi, do I call you Uncle Ron or just Ron?" he laughed, "just Ron will do fine, Jimmy, what I do need to talk to you about is your fight with young Mr Tiltman, he is in a bad way, when you twisted his leg it shattered the shin bone, when you threw yourself on top of him. The price turns out to be $2 less than what the guidebooks say. the driver drops us off at a little hotel by the railway station where I’ve made us reservations. Next morning we are up early and get over to the station to catch the train south. We could take it all the way to Singapore if we wanted, but we are not going that far. We get off the train at the stop for Phuket and go catch the bus. The bus takes a couple-three hours but we are enjoying the magnificent scenery, the people watching,. ’ Alex drewus both to her and we hugged and cried as it finally hit me just howclose we had been to death. We finally broke apart and Nin said, ‘Shane,does he know we OK?’‘Shit,’ said Alex, ‘I forgot about him.’ She grabbed her phone anddialled. Thrusting the phone into my hand and said, ‘You tell him.’ Itrang for a couple of seconds and then Shane said, ‘Alex?’‘No, it's James. I just wanted to tell you we are OK.’‘Thank Christ for that. I heard about the bomb and tried to call you butthen the. I had a crew of 9 independent contractors and usually hired locals as we built a few specific designs of homes. As Burnett Perkins building progressed on paper, via blueprint, the draftsmen I employed and I began to show him how impossible some of his specializations were. He always grew livid with my telling him couldn't do some the things he wanted. He eventually told me he had designed the grocery store's he owned and didn't need me. (they were all essentially retail boxes) Following me, he.