" You gave her a backrub?" Kelley said through clenched teeth."Well, yeah, she was nervous about an exam the next day and..." Which day?" Kelley inter...upted me again."Okay, let me explain what happened. You'll see that it was all quite innocent. It was a week ago tonight. Charlie and Debra had left for home that day and they had asked me to wait for Megan to finish her last exam on Friday. Megan called and said she was afraid to be alone in their house. I told her that she could stay with me,. Just watch," Red instructed as she handed me a cord from a window sash.I watched as she tied an end to Maple's knee, then followed suit as Red waited for me to catch up. She loosened the ties at Maple's ankles but kept them securely tied. She motioned for me to grab the cord I had just tied. As I did, I watched Red pull the cord and I followed her example. This pulled Maple's knees toward the side of the bed. With the ankles loosened, we easily pulled the cord up more toward the head of the. I pretended to be unaware of her while she started to edge closer.She was almost touching me now, picking out books and pretending to look at them while inching still nearer. I could easily hear her breathing, which was very slow and very, very deep. When she removed a book I saw her hand was shaking. To confirm that she was mine I abruptly left the boring Business Studies section and headed for Science, where there were some interesting-looking books on astronomy. I could see out of the corner. A man wearing an undershirt opened the door and said, “What d’you want?” around the cigar in his mouth.“Collecting for the Star,” said Rigby.“Not tonight,” said the man and closed the door quickly.Rigby finished the block, collected from two more customers and had one ask him to come back another day. It was dark by then so he quit and walked home, listening to the broadcast of the baseball game from many homes...He counted his money and found that he had accumulated about half of what he.