But then again, I wondered if he mightjust be thinking that I was playing some game of my own that was no morereal than anything else. I hoped not.Max...and I continued walking through the forest for the next hour or sowithout anything happening. I was beginning to get sick and tired of allthe walking, first through the city and now through the woods. What madeit worse was the realization that I had absolutely no idea just how muchmore walking I might have to do. Deacon's program only told me. “What about Melissa?”“Just give us access to his financial records and then you and your wife take a vacation. You need to get her away from him before it’s too late you know.”“Yes, I know,” I said looking over at her for the first time. “If you can get the charges dropped, why didn’t you intervene before now?”“Because Tony has too many friends in the police department and we didn’t want him to find out that we were talking to you. We don’t want you and your wife to end up dead.”“What would you. Everything seemed to be ok, so heinserted the floppy disk. Nothing happened, so he started to browse the disk, fearing it was emptyor something. There was one program and some files with a very strangefile format on the disk. Apparently the program was not self starting.Vincent double clicked on the program and it started up making the screenblank. Fear crept into Vincent's mind and already he thought, 'Oh no, mycomputer, what have I done. Is it a virus, or something moredestructive?' Then the. She sauntered across the room and picked up her coffee.“Uncle Mark do you remember when I was little and you would pick me up and swing me in the air until I was dizzy?”“Yes I do” I said recalling that time fondly. “And do you remember us watching scary movies and I would get so afraid I would have to sit on your lap and keep my eyes tightly shut?”I just nodded at her. Jessica put her cup on the table and without warning sat down on my lap and put her arms around my neck. She looked in my eyes.