Chapter 369 A Perilous Inheritance: #84

• "There was also a young woman there. She was shaking like a leaf, looking down at the man who had told me that he had seen David," Susan continued. "He wasn't moving and there was a big knife sticking out of his lower back. My dress was in tatters and I was mostly naked, but this man carried me a block or two and up several flights of stairs to the apartment that they lived in."
• "I was in a lot of pain. I had hurt my right hip and couldn't even stand or move my leg. Even worse, the man who had saved me had been cut by one of the men's knives. He had a gash almost 18" long on his upper, inner thigh, and he was bleeding. I had been trained as a nurse when I was young, so I instructed the young woman in how to staunch the bleeding with towels and pressure. When she had his bleeding more or less under control, she called for friends of theirs who brought a doctor who stitched up the knife wound."
• "We learned the next day that two people had been found dead in that lane; the man who had tried to rape me -- his neck was broken -- and the man who had led me into the lane -- the knife had penetrated his kidney and killed him. The third man got away, but he had a badly mangled arm from his tussle with the man who saved me."