The Chronology

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He sat beneath her glaring eyes
And glibly took her dime
She paced from desk to door to chair
For she did not have the time.

He parried with the precepts
As they tried to block his dream
He threw his life into the wind
And she scoffed his hair brained scheme.

A call came forth and summoned her
From such trivial discourse
She left to do her civic deed
Hoping her day could get no worse.

The woman said she'd waited
That she'd never been so bold
She'd reached into the dark abyss
And found more than fluff and fold.

She'd died in the course of working
And they found her place of berth
She took the address with her
Leaving the boys to ply their mirth.

As the leaden doors slid open
She found him standing there
She warned of inspiration
Lest it strike him anywhere.

They questioned the shocked couple
And gave listen to their tales
He pleaded for more question
As the meeting she curtailed.

He caught the men together
And petitioned to be let in
He'd hoped for leather and for lace
What he got was more than skin.

They watched her as she rode up
And as she rode back down
They searched keenly for her suitor
Could he no longer be around?

They met up with the doctor
And she spoke of unprudish sin
He explained to her of protection
And wondered how long it had been.

Finding the lovelorn suitor
He was held by his vile remarks
But was loosed from their submission
By the page that bared his mark.

Searching for the confidant
He confessed her in the park
That his daughter was his only love
The lonely women were his lark.

The young lass spoke of coffee
And of a deceitful cad
But he denied any connection
And confessed the affair he'd had.

They called back to the goodwife
When they found that she had lied
She offered up her true defense
And presented her lawyers guide

He perused the stolen image
Looking for the missing clue
What he found was something different
And it left him to construe.

He called upon his curtish muse
And regaled her in the box
As they entered to the foyer
He conversed of scent and sex.

Locating the child's dwelling
They confronted the man inside
Finding sheathes and music
Meant this lothario had lied.

The man admits to trysting
With the maiden ere she died
But assuaged their keen suspicion
As he construed his nanny's lie.

They looked for a connection
And found proof of her affair
They went back to the beginning
And discovered more victims there.

Alone and in a darkened place
A knife to end her suffering
She spoke of love and her lost friend
She hadn't planned on murdering.

He'd made it through the case
Without being injured, shot or killed
She said wait until the morrow
And your wish might be fulfilled.

Standing in the moonlight
She pondered o'er injustice
For what this cad was left to face
Could never be called righteous.

In the quiet of the night
Holding fast his memory
Viewing their life together
Love was all that he could see.

The daughter broke his reverie
To kiss goodnight her daddy
Giving thanks with all her heart
She was glad he'd been her nanny!