
If you put everything back where you got it from as soon as you've finished with it, you'll know where to find it next time, he used to tell her. Jon Quinn had a tidy mind, Jackie used to call him obsessional. Now it was time to go back to the wood again and He backed into the yard, tipped the trailer, watched the logs showering out, bumping into a sprawling heap, one or two bowling away as though they sought to escape the splitting axe and the Rayburn. They went in the shed over there, rummaged around, then came out again and left the door swinging open, just like it is now.' In addition to that it means that they've now found us, they know exactly where we're holed up.' And everything they've stolen is something that could be used as a weapon. If only Jackie had been there awaiting him. It was beyond anything other than a human being to open it. It fitted tight, too tight, so that more often than not you had to jerk it free to open the door.


He knew the door had been closed when he left because he had fetched the chainsaw out of there before breakfast and had replaced the stout gate-hook in the 'eye'. If you're not on the alert the whole time you're likely to end up dead, just like Gwyther would have killed me. 'We've got to keep a watchful eye out,' Trite, an understatement. Because if you had you'd probably be dead now like Gilbert in the wood. 'What Who?' His mouth went dry and the sweat inside his T-shirt was suddenly cold.
