With them dead, I released my family, and then my wife Elma cleaned the baby up ... Ahh, here she is now with my children."I looked over to where the ...man was looking and a woman around thirty with light brown hair that hung to her waist came in with two preteen children. The boy looked like his father but had his mother's hair while the girl was the spitting image of her mother. I estimated their age around ten and eleven years of age."Is she ok?" Elma asked as she looked at the crying. These have foam grips." Mellisa or Mel, you English?" she asked, holding out her hand.I nodded. "From Portsmouth. Mike but everyone calls me Dinger," I said, shaking her hand."Dinger?" she smiled."Army nickname. Surname's Bell. Some nicknames are pretty standard - Dinger Bell, Chalkie White, Swampy Marsh, Dickie Bird, Perry Mason. You get the idea." You look like you got here early. I'm just gonna do some squats and then a run, just to blow the cobwebs away. Have you used these machines. I was disappointed as our weekends were fun times. I told him it was ok and I would catch up on my housekeeping. It made him feel better but not me. Saturday morning I did my shopping and I was about the get lunch when Adam’s father knocked on my door. “Hi” he said “Adam is concerned about being away so I thought it was a good opportunity for you to have lunch with his mother and father”. I was surprised as they had not been all that friendly but I sensed a chance to change that. “I better. When I burst in with my discovery my father's face went red, andhe immediately confronted the priest. Indeed it was as I hadthought. Two months previously, at the instigation of thepriest, the villagers had burned an old gypsy woman for supposedwitchcraft. I have rarely seen my father so furious. The priestwas initially indignant in defending his action. In fact heseemed rather proud of it, but my father berated him sternly,and forbade him to do anything further without the authority ofthe.