The Everman Journal by Clark E Tanner

Author:Clark E Tanner [Tanner, Clark E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-15T04:30:00+00:00

Many a night I laid awake on my bed playing out scenario after scenario, trying to come up with a plan that depended as much as possible on my own controlled actions and as little as possible on the actions of someone else. I needed to leave nothing to chance, if there was a way to avoid it, and I needed to imagine every possible unforeseeable circumstance and have my plans ‘B’ and even ‘C’ in place to deal with those circumstances should they arise.

The two major problems with developing any plan that I was able to see, involved a fact and a person. The fact was we were in a small town where not much goes unnoticed. The person that was a problem was Eileen. I didn’t want her hurt further than she had been already, and I knew that what I had to do was going to hurt her – that much was unavoidable – but I certainly didn’t want her to be physically hurt by any of my actions. So she was a problem. She still lived in her father’s home with him and her brothers.

Every plan I devised that had any chance at all of working, took place in that home. They lived in East Quincy, just a quarter of a mile off the highway, and the homes out there were scattered. There wasn’t another home within hundreds of yards in either direction. So noise wasn’t going to be a problem as long as it was not loud or sustained noise. If I carried my plan out late in the day it had the best chance of working without me being seen. But there was Eileen and the baby.

I could see only one way my plan was going to succeed and I did not at all like the fact that it was dependent to some degree on luck.

I knew that on previous summers shortly after school got out, Eileen went to spend a week with her aunt in Chico. That had been the routine for at least the last three or four years that I was aware of, as I had learned in our conversations and the fact that I actually saw her off at the bus last year just after she told me we could not be together.

Now that she had the baby I didn’t know if that was going to change the routine. If she did go for her annual visit I had no doubt that she would take the baby with her. If she went, that week to ten days would be my opportunity. But here was the rub. I needed to carry out my plan before the end of the school year while I could still depend upon the school bus schedule and the routine of the Dornan men. Since Eileen was no longer in school, would she go at the end of the school year, or would she make her trip earlier, as soon as the spring thaw when it was

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