After she calmed down we dressed and she saw me to the door, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said she hoped she hadn’t ruined our friendship. I once...again told her it was fine and that I would let her know how Finlay was later. She had written down Finlay’s mobile number so I could arrange to drop off the box of goodies. As I neared Leicester one of my work colleagues called me to say that the meeting was postponed to tomorrow, I explained that I was already on my way and that I would stay the. Farmers started to band together to protect their farms and food resources. As roving gangs would enter a farming community, if any hostility were shown the gangs were killed and their bodies hung for display to show what would happen to the rovers that entered a self protected community. This seemed to become the standard way of life the world over, as communities isolated themselves to maintain their food supplies and protect their way of life.The world was relaxing as they felt the threat of. It was thought that the wide open spaces and the hard work and fresh airwould straighten them out and it usually did. Only with Dale it didn'tseem to be working.He complained about the hard work and the heat and the bugs and the longdays and had mentioned it would be much easier to just stay behind andcook the meals and wash dishes and mop floors at the main house than itwould be to do hard farm work. At least the main house was airconditioned he'd often argue. A fact that wasn't lost on. I gave him two of the pills and tucked him into the covers. I sat with him until I was sure he was asleep. I went down stairs and called the police. I asked about the crime scene. They told me they had finished and I could clean it up if I wished. I could have waited for Jack's cleaning lady. I'm sure the evil one would have. I got out some cleaning gear and mopped up Tom's blood. I got the floor clean, fortunately, the blood didn't make it to the rug. When the mess was cleaned up. I sat down.