PART 31

My intentions was, come morning, I would head straight for the rector's office to talk with him. Father Aiken have always been my friend. He took very kindly to me the first time I met him and I have always reciprocated his kindness with rapt attention and similar understanding.

But I decided instead to set out in search of Nadia, recalling that we both had a fall out the last time we were together. On my way to the likely places I knew I could find Nadia I saw a strange Object that seemed half way buried into the ground. When I approached it I discovered it was a ''dried out'' plant that looked like a tree 2 feet high. But it's roots showed that it actually wasn't a plant, ''strange'', I thought, the student in charge must be away already.