Then his buddy pulled the dart from his hand. They wrapped his hand in a towel. His friend came to stand near me."Now. are you planning to threaten me... as well?" I asked."No Ma'am, I'm going to tell you that Kevin is an ass, when he drinks too much, and he drinks too much quite often. He is going to get himself killed some night for that mouth of his." the young man said,I removed the steak knife from tbe waist band of my jeans. I tossed it on the table, then said, "Tonight could very easily. Since Diane's marriage three years ago, she and Linda had only seen each other a few times. Diane thought of all the good times she'd had with her sister. They'd gotten close when she was fifteen, and just started dating. Linda was three years older, and although she hadn't dated much, she helped Diane to remain true to her feelings and make good dating choices. Even after Diane finished high school she and Linda remained close. They both lived at home with their parents until Linda moved a. One of the mistresses was holding the HM’s cane, a fearsome device some three feet in length of supple yellow rattan. She handed it to the HM who flexed it in front of the ashen faced girl and the sliced it through the air causing her to flinch and clench her buttocks. The sentence of twelve strokes was given and from where I sat I could see her knuckles whiten as she gripped the edge of the chair seat. The HM with a face like stone moved behind the girl and placed the stick across the centre. Almost, but not quite. It was Wednesday morning at work, a week to the day since the encounter, when her phone rang at 10:30 a.m. “Hello, Janel,” he said. “It’s me. The Doctor.” It was as if his voice reached out and touched her through the phone, pushing her back into her chair. She’d been leaning over the papers on her desk, now she sat up straight and her eyes flicked nervously around the room, as if he might be in there with her. Her eyes went to the clock on the wall and she stared at the.