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\tqr\tx9952\fs20\par}THE ROAD TO ANTIOCH\par}

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\kerning28 By Rex Antioch{\fs48\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 1.{\fs48\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab Meeting my daughter out of school was one of the real nuisances
 of my life, but unless I was to leave her to make her own way across town to an
 empty house I had no choice.  Her mother had died giving birth to her in what is
 euphemistically called {\lang5129\u8216\'91}medical misadventure{\lang5129\u8217
\'92} and although I had eventually remarried - largely in an attempt to provide
 her with a mother - it had not worked out leaving me with a daughter now twelve
, a struggling printing business, a heap of debts and a load of hassles I could 
have done without, one of which was to drop whatever I was doing in the middle of
 the afternoon and meet my daughter out of school.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I was sitting in my car among the many lining both sides of the 
road outside the school gates on the same errand, with a very depressing bank statement
 spread open on the steering wheel, when someone tapped lightly on the window beside
 me.  It was a man I did not recognise.  I wound down the window.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93It\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s Russel Walker, isn}\u8217\'92{
\lang2057 t it?\u8221\'94 he asked as though he knew perfectly well it was.\par}
}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 I agreed, wondering where I might have met
 him.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 The other man nodded.  \u8220\'93How{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s business
?\u8221\'94 he asked as people often do by way of greeting.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Fine,\u8221\'94 I lied.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He nodded again, thoughtfully.  \u8220\'93Got time for a quick word
?\u8221\'94 he asked.  I still couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t remember meeting the
 man before but I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}m nothing if not courteous and anyway if he
 wanted to offer me some business I was all ears.  I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t 
want him getting into my car, though, so I opened the door and climbed out.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93\u8216\'91{\lang2057 Fine}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  is not 
what I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve heard,\u8221\'94 he observed somewhat pointedly once
 I was standing beside him.  I felt myself bristle slightly but I lived in a town
 rather than a city and the business community is small enough for gossip to spread
 widely.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well, it could be better,\u8221\'94 I said blandly.  \u8220
\'93But then, who\u8217\'92s couldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t?\u8221\'94  I wanted to
 know what he wanted with me, and getting uptight wasn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t the
 best way to find out.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Ever heard of the King of Antioch?\u8221\'94 the other 
man asked.  He was my age and smartly, expensively, dressed.  He had an air of quiet
 confidence and competence about him which suggested \u8216\'91{\lang2057 professional
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  yet did not have the aura of pushy charisma that shouted 
}\u8216\'91{\lang2057 sales}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  and I was sure I had never seen
 him anywhere before.  I was conscious that he hadn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t offered
 me his name and this made me a little suspicious.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93What?  No,\u8221\'94 I responded.  I\u8217\'92{\lang2057
d a vague idea that Antioch had been a city in the Middle East in ancient times 
and that St. Paul might have written some epistles from or to there but other than
 that was utterly bemused by the question.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Ah.\u8221\'94  The other seemed unsurprised.  \u8220\'93
Shakespeare, you know.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I was even more bemused.  What on earth did Shakespeare have to 
do with anything?\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 Children were beginning to stream out of the school gates with parents
 moving in to meet them.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Many men would envy the King of Antioch,\u8221\'94 the 
man said meaningfully.  \u8220\'93But few have the courage to claim the kingdom.
\u8221\'94.  I was beginning to wonder if he was some religious nut about to start
 trying to covert me.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93There\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll be something in the mail for
 you in the next few days,\u8221\'94 he prophesied, low voiced as though in a conspiracy
.  \u8220\'93Remember the King of Antioch.\u8221\'94  With that he turned and walked
 away.  Momentarily I considered going after him for an explanation but something
 about the set of his shoulders told me that he had finished with me and I wasn}
\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t about to start what could well become a scene in front of
 several hundred children and a large number of adults.  In any case I was rather
 relieved to see him go as the conversation had resembled the sort you have with
 a Jehovah}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s Witness on your doorstep and they can be a real
 trial to get rid of although the man}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s pitch, if that}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s what it was, had been even more peculiar than that of an all-powerful
 god in need of financial support.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 My daughter Julie arrived at my side, school-bag trailing and hat
 as ever tilted rakishly and illegally to the back of her head.  \u8220\'93Hi, dad
.  Who was that?\u8221\'94\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hi, sweetheart.  Just a chap I must have met sometime.  
He recognised me, but I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m damned if I can remember him.\u8221
\'94  I gave her the regulation peck on the cheek.  \u8220\'93Good day?\u8221\'94
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93So so,\u8221\'94 she conceded and trailed off around the
 front of the car to climb in the passenger\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s seat.  I retook
 the driver}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 There was a lot of her mother, the woman I had loved, in our daughter
 and it was becoming stronger as she approached womanhood.  She was pretty without
 the perfect, honed beauty of the model, still had the innocence of childhood but
 was also, I knew, acquiring a new coyness about what was happening to her body 
as her breasts became irrefutable presences on her chest and the curves of her body
 drew men{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyes.  I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d done a few things
, awkwardly and with a great deal of mutual embarrassment, to prepare her for those
 changes and knew I should have done more but she was still a child at heart and
 I was reluctant to pitch her into the cares of adulthood until I absolutely had
 to.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 Happily she settled down in the car seat and began to tell me all
 about her day at school as I tried to extract the vehicle from the chaos which 
reigned for fifteen minutes every day in term-time outside the gates and tried to
 forget the implications of the bank-statement tossed hurriedly into the back seat
, and completely forget about the odd conversation with a stranger I had just experienced
.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 2.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I recalled it two days later when, out of the blue, I received in
 the mail an invitation from a large commercial organisation to quote for a major
 print job.  It was an organisation with no base anywhere near my town and of a 
size which would normally not trouble itself with, or even have heard of, a small
 outfit like mine.  Indeed the order was of a magnitude I was only able to consider
 taking on because I had virtually nothing else on my books.  It was also a lifebelt
 to a drowning man and I gave it all my attention as I put together a price and 
prepared the submission.  It was only when this was safely posted away that I allowed
 myself the time to fully recall that odd meeting outside the school.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 The organisation I had supplied the quote to had no obvious links
 or connection with the Middle East even in the present, let alone an ancient kingdom
 which, I discovered from Britannica, is now part of Turkey and hasn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t had a king of its own for eight hundred years.  Baffled I was tempted to 
put the arrival of the invitation to quote so soon after the meeting down to coincidence
, except that I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  The man who had spoken to me had 
known the invitation to quote was on its way, I was sure, while on the face of it
 such an invitation would never in a million years come my way out of the blue as
 it had.  \par}

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\fs24\kerning28 The clandestine air of the meeting with its obviously meaningful
 but incomprehensible references to the King of Antioch could even seem sinister
 if whoever was behind it also had sufficient influence with a major corporate to
 get it to divert work from its usual suppliers to a small outfit like mine, and
 I even began to worry if I could be involving myself in something I might regret
.  Yet what that might be I had no idea.  I wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t about the
 turn to work away, though.  I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t afford to.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 It was only when I was waiting in the car again outside Julie{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s school mulling over the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s remarks that I remembered
 his single, seemingly irrelevant reference to Shakespeare.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I took Julie home, prepared her tea, helped her with her homework
, watched TV with her for a while and then sent her off to bed.  Once she had gone
 I powered up my PC, logged onto the net, linked into Google and fired up a search
 with the parameters {\lang5129\u8216\'91}Shakespeare +Antioch{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 Bingo.  The King of Antioch is a character in Shakespeare{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s play {\lang5129\u8216\'91}Pericles{\lang5129\u8217\'92}.  So I searched
 {\lang5129\u8216\'91}Pericles{\lang5129\u8217\'92}.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 The results came back in two seconds and I linked to a University
 site offering the text and a summary of the play.  Half-an-hour later I logged 
off, closed down my computer and sat staring at the blank screen, my heart pounding
 and the palms of my hands sweating slightly.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 In the play the character Pericles, who is a Prince of Tyre, visits
 Antioch seeking to marry the King{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s daughter.  Anyone wishing
 to do so must first answer a riddle set by the King, with a penalty of death for
 a wrong answer.  The riddle is:\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab{\i I am no viper, yet I feed\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab On mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s flesh which did me breed
;\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab I sought a husband, in which labour\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab I found that kindness in a father.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab He{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s father, son and husband mild,\par
}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab I mother, wife and yet his child.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab How that may be, and yet in two,\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab\tab As you will live, resolve it you.{\i0\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 Pericles realises the answer is that the King{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s daughter is also acting as his wife - that they are committing incest.  Deciding
 on that basis to forgo the Princess he flees Antioch and the King sends an assassin
 after him to preserve the secret.  The rest of the play deals with Pericles{\lang5129
\u8217\'92} travels and the true love he eventually finds, and the King of Antioch
 and his unnamed daughter only appear again in a report that they are both dead.
\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 A footnote to the text informed me that, \u8220\'93While the riddle
 would have been obscure and the answer shocking to a Christian audience such as
 the one Shakespeare was writing for, incest was far from unknown, or even shocking
, in the period in which the play is set.  Both the Greek and the Roman pantheons
 are riddled with incest, with Zeus in particular impregnating many of his daughters
 and Adonis, the embodiment of physical beauty, born of an incestuous union of a
 King of Cyprus and his daughter, while Egyptian Pharaohs regularly married their
 sisters.  The Roman emperor Caligula made no secret of getting his own sister pregnant
 and the Emperor Nero was widely known to have often slept with his mother.  Whether
 incest was an accepted norm among the lower classes is less certain but the absence
 of any sanctions against it in early Roman Codex Lexis and the frequency and passion
 with which the early Church fathers fulminated against it suggests that it was.  
Certainly in a highly patriarchal age where daughters were quite literally the property
 of their fathers until marriage, where the concept of romantic love had yet to 
be invented and where no great store appears to have been placed on virginity it
 seems likely that in fact the activities of the King of Antioch and his daughter
 would have raised few eyebrows in their own cultures thus making the riddle relatively
 easy to solve and imposing no great incentive for the King to keep it secret.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
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\fs24\kerning28 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, had been given a riddle by the King of
 Antioch, solved it and not liked the answer.  I, too, had been set a riddle by 
a King of Antioch, I believed I had solved it and I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t like
 the answer either.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Clearly some modern-day King of Antioch, presumably a man committing
 incest with his daughter, had taken sufficient interest in me to do me a very great
 favour.  The next riddle was, why and what did he want in return?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I left my desk and poured myself a stiff whisky.  I was shaken and
 coldly angry, for I had never committed incest with my daughter Julie.  I had never
 even laid an improper finger on her.  So who was the bastard who thought I had?
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I swallowed my drink in one angry hit.  Of course I was a prime 
candidate for such suspicions - a man living alone with a pretty, young daughter
.  But that someone thought I would actually take advantage of the situation..... 
I resisted the urge to hurl the empty glass across the room and poured myself another
 drink instead.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8216\'91{\lang2057 Many men would envy the King of Antioch,}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057  I recalled the stranger outside the school saying to me, }\u8216
\'91{\lang2057 But few have the courage to claim the kingdom.}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
  In the light of my new understanding I could see this as a challenge - many men
 desire to have sex with their daughters, but few have the courage to do anything
 about it.\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The alcohol was taking effect, numbing my mind and soothing my anger
.  I believed it was all beginning to make sense.  Some pervert who had sex with
 his daughter had singled me out as being a man who had the opportunity to do the
 same and wondered if I did, adding a challenge for me to do it if I didn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t.  Well, I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t, and was most certainly not the
 sort of man who could even think of using his little girl for sex.  And if I found
 out who it was that thought I did or could I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d break his neck
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Feeling better, I took another slug and then went to bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 3.   \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab Probably because of the alcohol I slept like a log and had to
 fight my way back to consciousness through a crashing headache when I woke, wondering
 what had woken me.  Julie, I became aware, was standing beside my bed with a tray
 in her hands.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Wake up, Sleepyhead,\u8221\'94 she said again with a shy
 giggle.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Urgh.  What time is it?\u8221\'94 I croaked, still trying
 to gather my wits.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Nearly eight o\u8217\'92{\lang2057 clock,\u8221\'94 she
 informed me.  I was usually up at half-six to get our breakfasts and Julie off 
to school but in going to bed half-drunk the previous evening had obviously forgotten
 to set the alarm. \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I woke up rapidly.  \u8220\'93Oh Lord.  You{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
ll be late for school.\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My daughter gave a peal of delighted laughter.  \u8220\'93It{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s Saturday, silly,\u8221\'94 she informed me triumphantly.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I collapsed back onto the mattress with relief.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Brought you breakfast,\u8221\'94 Julie announced with pride
.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The tray in her hands held a mug of coffee, some buttered toast 
on a plate and a jar of marmalade - my usual breakfast - and the coffee in particular
 looked delicious at that moment.  But I also noticed that my daughter was still
 in her nighty and in the same instant I recalled what I had discovered the previous
 evening about the King of Antioch and his daughter, and the implications of that
 for me.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s nighty was a shorty, and probably a 
size or two too small for her as she was outgrowing her wardrobe on what seemed 
practically a monthly basis and I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d had to be careful what I
 spent for some time.  It barely covered her bottom and when she twisted and leaned
 over to place the tray on my bedside table it rode high to reveal thin white panties
 stretched tight across her little bottom.  The material of the nighty, too, was
 thin and as she straightened up it moulded itself to her tiny breasts and for a
 moment outlined the hint of pimpled nipples at the centre of a suggestion of shadow
 of darker rings which tipped them.  Sex kicked me like a horse.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 After the disaster of my second marriage and the divorce, which 
had cost me a substantial financial settlement that was a large contributor to my
 present difficulties, I had avoided becoming involved in a relationship and to 
meet my sexual needs had patronised a massage parlour in the town.  However, that
 even more than my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s wardrobe had been a casualty of
 my enforced financial cutbacks and it had been several months since my last visit
 there.  Catching me unprepared the outline of my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s
 body beneath the flimsy nightdress ignited a flare of desire in my blood which 
for a moment paralysed me.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I fought it down.  Julie regarded me slightly quizzically and I 
concentrated on her familiar face while trying to ignore the body beneath it.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Yet even the face was not as familiar as it should have been.  It
 was the same shape, neither too round nor too thin, and was framed by the same 
bronze-brunette shoulder-length hair hooked as ever behind her left ear but falling
 over her right.  The tiny, pert nose she{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d had as a baby still
 lay between two clear, dark, sparkling eyes and her lips, red and slightly parted
, were as kissable as ever.  It was a face I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d known all her
 life, yet it was a face I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d never seen before.  It was no longer
 the face of a child.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My prick pulsed, fully erect, my blood was burning and my insides
 were in turmoil.  I forced myself to look at the tray instead.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Is it father\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s day already?\u8221\'94
 I croaked.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93No,\u8221\'94 Julie giggled, a little girl again.  \u8220
\'93But we\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re going to go shopping this morning, remember?\u8221
\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I remembered, and knew we couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t really afford
 it.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yup, so we are,\u8221\'94 I agreed.  \u8220\'93You\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 d best go get dressed.  I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll be down soon.\u8221
\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93OK,\u8221\'94 she agreed cheerfully, turned with a spin
 that had her nightdress hugging her body again and flounced from the room giving
 me another tantalising glimpse of her white panties.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I flopped, shattered, onto the mattress.  My daughter was still 
tiny, the top of her head barely reached my shoulder, and I had never before noticed
 that her legs were long, smooth and elegant.  I had never  realised that her waist
 had become so slender, yet it must have been for some time.  I had known my daughter
 was growing breasts - I had given her money to buy bras - yet I had never before
 been so aware of their reality.  I had been saddened by the knowledge that my daughter
 was becoming aware of the awful things which can happen in the world but had still
 missed the moment when she had begun to view that world with eyes which looked 
beyond what they saw.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Many men would envy the King of Antioch.  Oh yes. As though someone
 had taken a blindfold from my eyes I had become aware of my daughter{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s sex and yearned to know it, and could feel a pang of envy for a man who had
 satisfied that yearning.  But few have the courage to claim the kingdom, the stranger
 had added.  When I was finally able to reach across for the cup of cooling coffee
 on the tray my daughter had brought me I noticed that my hand was shaking as though
 I had a fever.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 4.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab The morning was purgatory.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Julie as ever flitted around the supermarket like a hummingbird, 
loading up the basket with delicacies we couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t afford only
 some of which I managed to return to the shelves when she wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t looking.  I had to buy her some new clothes, too, as I couldn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t challenge her assertion that she needed another pair of jeans and a top, 
and tried not to stare too obviously at those tempting feminine mounds on her chest
 as she twirled and posed in a variety of styles and colours for my approval in 
the shop.  We dined in town as we usually did as she had a two-hour music lesson
 in town in the afternoon, and for every single second I was acutely aware of the
 jut of her little breasts beneath her top, the firm curves of her waist and hips
, the round fullness of her bottom and the smooth flawless skin of her shapely legs
 beneath her jeans, and for the first time in my life wondered what lay between 
them.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I knew, of course.  I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d bathed her as a child
 and seen often enough the parting of her body in its tiny split pad of flesh that
 made her a girl rather than a boy.  But that had been six or seven years ago.  
Now, like an itch I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t scratch, I worried at what lay 
there in this girl I no longer knew.  Did she have a small patch of hair or a bush
, or still none at all?  Was that cleft still closed and tight, still unready for
 its purpose, or was it opening like a rose, moist and blushing with the petals 
of flesh unfolding from within it?  Did she explore herself there, masturbating 
in her bed at night?  Had she in her curiosity plumbed the depths of her vagina 
with perhaps a pencil, or even bigger things?  Had some boy, perhaps, already had
 his finger there?  Perhaps his penis?\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The thought of some brain-dead, gauche  fourteen or fifteen-year
-old boy poking about between my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs sent a surge
 of primeval fury through me and across the cluttered restaurant table I saw Julie
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s worried eyes watching me.  With a grin that was more of a
 grimace I let the anger go.  My daughter was still only twelve, and I was sure 
she was not one to let boys put their hands into her knickers.  As far as I knew
 she had no boyfriend, and she spent little enough time in situations where even
 if she had one they could get up to that kind of mischief.  That could easily change
, though, and quickly, and I knew I dared not let matters drift along the way they
 had until then.  I was going to have to give my daughter a talking to.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I walked with her to the music school and left her there with her
 violin, taking myself across to a nearby park to wait out the two hours of her 
lesson.  In better times I would have filled the time with a visit to the massage
 parlour but in my current financial state that was totally out of the question, 
however badly I might have needed it.  Even if my quote for the work offered so 
unexpectedly was to be accepted the money it would earn was already spent.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 If my quote was accepted.  What if this King of Antioch were to 
let me know that it would only be accepted if I actually did have sex with my daughter
?  Out of the question.  Even though I was technically bankrupt and another few 
months with no orders could see me calling in the liquidators I could not debauch
 and defile my own daughter just to keep my business going.  It didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t make sense anyway.  Even if he was having sex with his daughter why should
 he be concerned whether or not I did with mine?  But if he did have sex with his
 daughter and thoughts I had sex with mine he might perhaps see me as a kindred 
spirit, know I was in trouble and be prepared to extend a helping hand to me.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 That certainly seemed the least sinister of the scenarios I could
 but didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t like to imagine.  But who the hell could it be?  
I knew of no-one in or with any connection with the organisation I had quoted to
, and while the Police could possibly find out who in the organisation had caused
 the invitation to be made to me I had no chance of doing it.  What was I going 
to tell the Police though?  Track down that man because he{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s
 committing incest with his daughter - I know because a complete stranger outside
 my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s school rambled on about the King of Antioch and
 Shakespeare and told me that I was going to get a business-saving letter in the
 next few days.  They{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d be more likely to take Julie away from
 me.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My blood went cold at the thought of losing my daughter to the Social
 Services people.  Julie was my life.  Bright, beautiful, breathless Julie with 
her small, budding breasts and her cute bottom.  I groaned as I realised how close
 I was to ejaculating into my pants.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My researches the previous evening had, I realised, let a genie 
out of the bottle and it wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t going to go back.  Only a day
 previously the word {\lang5129\u8216\'91}incest{\lang5129\u8217\'92} had meant 
only grubby police-courts, sad, disgusting fathers being jailed for abusing their
 daughters and jokes about inbred idiots in hill-billy land.  Now I knew that entire
 societies, complete cultures had accepted and thought nothing of it.  Gods and 
kings did it all the time.  An Egyptian Pharaoh married his sister as an act of 
divinity, not debauchery.  A man owned his daughter and if he chose to take sexual
 pleasure with her that was his right.  Neither he nor she was tainted or depraved
 by the act.  It was what people did.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I saw the way my thoughts were tending and slammed on the brakes
.  Those were primitive societies with lower standards.  They also indulged in human
 sacrifice and read the future in bird entrails.  We know better.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I released my breath in a gust.  I could no longer deny that I yearned
 to lay eyes, and hands, on my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s little breasts, burned
 to kiss the lips on that mouth between her legs.  Yes, I was boilingly envious 
of the King of Antioch and any other man who had done those things with his own 
daughter.  But the standards of modern society required that I denied those yearnings
 for my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s own sake, and deny them I would.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 5.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab Deny them I did.  Masturbation helped take the edge off my desires
, and I worked hard at converting my sexual interest in my daughter into more proper
, conventional affection.  I could tell Julie was aware that something was troubling
 me and from one or two little, cautious, probing questions or comments from her
 realised that she was aware that not all was well with my business and that she
 was worried for me.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I could not help touching her, but was acutely careful to do so 
only in the most innocent way - resting my hands lightly on her waist or shoulders
, giving her a light peck on the cheek or kissing her harmlessly on the top of her
 head.   I even went so far as to let her know that indeed all was not well with
 the business in the hope that she would attribute my occasional distraction or 
tight grin down to my own worries.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Then the package arrived, accepting my quote and delivering the 
sketches and colour separations prepared by the organisation{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s own art department.  The initial payment, too, was made to my bank account and
 I could actually afford to pay my staff for the next few weeks.  Relieved beyond
 measure, though aware the reprieve was only temporary, I immersed myself into preparing
 the print run and tried to forget the swell of my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s new breasts beneath her clothes.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had never been able to afford to pay a girl just to type letters
 and answer the phone and the rule was that whoever was closest to one when it rang
 would answer it.  Thus it was that, a few days later, one of my staff picked up
 the phone when it buzzed and then called across the workshop to me, \u8220\'93Russ
? A Mr. Pericklees for you.\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 For a moment I was baffled.  Then the penny dropped.  Pericles, 
Prince of Tyre.  Shit.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll take it in the office,\u8221\'94
 I yelled over the clatter of machinery and crossed to the cubby which served me
 as an office, shutting the door behind me to cut out some of the noise.  I picked
 up the handset on the instrument on my desk and waved it at the window looking 
out into the workshop.  My employee put his extension back in its cradle and returned
 to his work and I hitched myself onto the corner of my desk, putting the phone 
to my ear.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Russell Walker?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hello Russell,\u8221\'94 a voice said over the line.  \u8220
\'93Can we talk?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Good.  How\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s business?\u8221\'94\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m managing,\u8221\'94 I said cautiously
.  I knew I was talking to the same man who had asked me that question outside my
 daughter}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s school.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Doesn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t sound as good as }\u8216\'91
{\lang2057 fine}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ,\u8221\'94 the voice observed pointedly.\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93These are hard times,\u8217\'92{\lang2057  I pointed out
.  I had wondered whether the mysterious King of Antioch could even have been somehow
 behind my difficulties - manipulating me into a position where I would be beholden
 to him - but had decided it was unlikely.  The whole economy had been struggling
 for a while with a lot of firms cutting back on the spending and promotions, particularly
 the kind of advertising flyer which had always been my bread and butter, and I 
could think of no customers who had unexpectedly taken their business elsewhere.  
They had just stopped spending, and this plus the financial hit I had taken in the
 divorce four years before and a couple of ambitious investments which had still
 to pay off, had left me particularly exposed to any downturn.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes.\u8221\'94  I heard an undertone of reluctant agreement
 in the tone.  \u8220\'93Mind you, at times like these it\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s 
good to have friends.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93It\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s always good to have friends,\u8221
\'94 I observed.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Does the King of Antioch mean anything to you now?\u8221
\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 I agreed.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93And the riddle?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93And the riddle,\u8221\'94 I said coldly.{\lang2057\par}
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93That\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s well done,\u8221\'94 the voice
 conceded.  \u8220\'93It}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s not an easy conundrum.  Few get 
there on as few clues as we gave you.\u8221\'94  I did not miss the }\u8216\'91{
\lang2057 we}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 .  \u8220\'93And I guess the fact you haven}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t already hung up on me means you have some interest in joining the
 few?  The elect of the kingdom?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I hesitated. {\lang5129\u8216\'91}Many men would envy the King of
 Antioch, but few have the courage to claim the kingdom{\lang5129\u8217\'92}, I 
remembered.  And he was right.  I was talking with a man who presumably had sex 
with his own daughter and had felt not the slightest disgust or contempt.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t qualify,\u8221\'94 I said sharply
.  \u8220\'93And I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m not sure I want to.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93If you were certain you didn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t want
 to I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d say goodby and you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d never hear
 from us again.  If you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re merely }\u8216\'91{\lang2057 not
 sure}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  then perhaps we have something to offer.\u8221\'94\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had known in my gut that I would be hearing about the King of 
Antioch again.  A powerful part of me - the part that accepted the necessity for
 taxes and understood and forgave the arrogance of policemen - wanted nothing to
 do with him, but another part of me - a darker, fundamental, newly released and
 equally powerful part of me which was frightening me a little - wanted to know 
more about this man, and his daughter.  These two parts of me were at odds and had
 not even managed any sort of dialogue let alone a resolution.  Caught helpless 
between them I hesitated.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Look at it like this,\u8221\'94 the voice said soothingly
 over the \u8216\'91{\lang2057 phone.  \u8220\'93We are well aware that what we 
believe might seem like heresy to you.  You}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re like a good, 
God-fearing Catholic at the start of the Reformation, hearing the first whispers
 of a siren-song of a belief which you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve been brought up to
 believe is dark and evil and yet aware of a small voice at the back of your mind
 that}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s saying, }\u8216\'91{\lang2057 listen.  How can you 
be so sure you are right and they are wrong?}\u8217\'92{\lang2057   You can close
 your mind to it if you want, and blindly follow the path of orthodoxy.  It}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s certainly the easiest way.  Or you can open your mind and use it
 for yourself.  If you then choose the path of orthodoxy it will at least then be
 from your voluntary choice, not blind obedience.  We can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t
 turn you into a King of Antioch if you don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t want to be, and
 will certainly respect your choice.  We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d just like to see
 you make the choice rather than let it pass and be lost forever.  And perhaps regretted
 forever.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Paralysed between my own conflicting impulses I saw the compromise
 offered as the only way forward.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I suppose it could do no harm to listen,\u8221\'94 I capitulated
.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93OK.\u8221\'94  The voice at the other end sounded happy
.  \u8220\'93As you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve discovered we are sometimes in a position
 to help one another out and like to do so.  We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve also no 
problem with those who don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t necessarily agree with us, as 
long as they respect our right to follow our beliefs and don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t try to interfere.  You}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll understand, though, that we do 
need to take stringent, and if necessary drastic, measures if we are attacked, or
 betrayed.  We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll be in touch.\u8221\'94  The connection went
 dead.  I hung up slowly.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 6.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab That evening I sat in my chair in the lounge watching my daughter
 poring over her homework scattered across the dining table, the tip of her tongue
 just peeping out from between her lips as it always did when she was concentrating
, and I felt just what a traitor must feel as he watches the friend he is betraying
 walk innocently into a trap.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had agreed to open myself to arguments that I should have sex 
with this beautiful, innocent creature.  The Dr. Jekyll part of me was appalled 
and horrified that such a thought should even have found its way into my head, let
 alone that I was allowing it to stay there.  The Mr. Hyde in me only had eyes for
 the fall of my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hair across her shoulders, the curvature
 of her little breasts as she sat with them laid almost like offerings on the table
 beneath her books and the remembered firm sleekness of the flank I had felt with
 my hand when patting it playfully earlier in the evening.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 This helpless child was under my protection, Dr. Jekyll argued desperately
.  It was my duty to deliver her safe and whole into adulthood, from where she could
 launch into freedom on the wings of her mind.  But oh, Mr.  Hyde whispered into
 my ear, think of those soft curves, that silken creamy skin under your hands.  
Imagine unloading that cauldron of semen boiling and throbbing between your legs
 into that sweet, beautiful body.  She is yours.  She belongs to you.  She would
 not complain.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Even my Dr. Jekyll knew that was true.  My little Julie would know
 well enough what happened to fathers who were found to have had sex with their 
daughters.  She read the same newspapers I did, watched the same TV news.  She had
 to know what would happen if she let it be known I had interfered with her, so 
for her it would presumably be a case of choosing between the lesser of two evils
.  And I knew that she loved me, for every daughter loves her father unless he gives
 her good enough reason not to and I had never done that, until now.  I was sure
 she would endure a very great deal rather than destroy me - see me sent to jail
 with a ruined business - and pitch herself into an uncertain world of Social Services
 or foster homes or the alien world and begrudged care of distant relatives she 
barely knew.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93So why not?\u8217\'92{\lang2057   Mr.  Hyde whispered in
 my ear.  \u8220\'93Why not take her upstairs and undress her?  Kiss and caress 
that little, slender body, lay it on your bed and pierce it with that throbbing 
rod between your thighs and let all this surging, burning desire burst like lava
 into it.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93You cannot.  You must not,\u8221\'94 an appalled, dismayed
 Dr. Jekyll cried as my control wavered and my muscles tensed to lift me from the
 chair and propel me across the room to rape my daughter.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Dad?\u8221\'94  Julie was looking at me, her little nose
 wrinkled and clear forehead furrowed as they did when she was perplexed.  \u8220
\'93Why did they make Charles the Second King when they\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d chopped
 the head off his father and gone without a King for a while?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Ah.  That\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s a very good question, sweetheart
,\u8221\'94 I flailed around for moment or two, getting myself back under control
 and gathering my thoughts.  Fortunately I had always been interested in that period
 of history, although more particularly the Civil War Battles.  \par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93They were different sorts of King, Honey,\u8221\'94 I told
 her.  \u8220\'93Charles the First was an old kind of King who believed he was King
 because God had intended for him to be King, and so wouldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t
 listen to anyone else.  But people didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t believe that any
 more, so when he wouldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t change his mind they had to get 
rid of him.  When they asked Charles the Second to be King it was as a new kind 
of King, on the understanding that he was only King because the people wanted him
 to be, so he had to listen to what the people said.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Uh-huh,\u8221\'94 Julie said, and I saw a little smile 
of comprehension play across her lovely face.  Then the wrinkles were back.  \u8220
\'93But why did they make Charles the First\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s son King, when
 his father was a bad king.  Why didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t they choose someone
 else, who would be a good king?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93You can\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t chose a King,\u8221\'94 I
 said gently.  \u8220\'93Because that just makes a President.  Everybody has to 
accept his right to be King, not just those who might vote for him.  And a man who
 makes himself King because he has the biggest army is just a dictator until someone
 with a bigger army comes along.  So you make a rule that decides who is the King
 that no-one can argue with, but make sure that the real king won}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t misuse the power you give him and always does the right thing for all his people
.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Oh.  I see.\u8221\'94 My lovely daughter grinned her understanding
, although as an introduction to the concept of constitutional monarchy my explanation
 was woefully inadequate.  Then, frowning again, she looked down at her pad and 
began scratching away again with a pencil, the tip of her tongue appearing again
 between her lips.  I relaxed back into my chair, shaken by how close I had come
 to forcing sex on my own twelve-year-old daughter, and took a deep breath.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 7.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\tab Four days passed and though my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s sexual presence was a continuing thrilling awareness in my blood, the hidden mounds
 on her chest a constant distraction and the brush of her jeans between her thighs
 as she walked an electric tingle in my ears I struggled to play the part of a properly
 behaved, loving father, although it was easiest when I was at work and she was 
at school.  After dropping her off there on the fourth day I drew into the yard 
beside the little industrial unit where I ran my business and climbed out for another
 day.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Mr. Walker.  Hello.  My name is Pericles.\u8221\'94{\lang2057
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 The man approaching me with his hand outstretched could have been
 waiting for me in the yard or had just been dropped off by a car on the road outside
, I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t say.  It was not the same man who had accosted 
me outside Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s school, being older, shorter and bespectacled
 with a man of short grey hair framing a bald pate.  He was in a lawyer{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s pin-stripe complete with waistcoat and his shoes shone expensively.  
Presumably, though,  he was another man who had sex with his own daughter and I 
pointedly ignored his hand.  After a moment he shrugged and lowered it.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I had understood you wished to hear the arguments pro a
 certain contention,\u8221\'94 he said mildly.  \u8220\'93But if your mind is made
 up I will go and you will not hear from us again.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8216\'91{\lang2057 Yes, clear off you pervert,}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
 Dr.  Jekyll prompted into one of my ears while, }\u8216\'91{\lang2057 No, don}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t go.  I want to hear what you have to say,}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  
Mr.  Hyde shrieked into the other.  I stared at him for a moment of indecision and
 then shrugged. \par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well, I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll listen,\u8221\'94 I said
 begrudgingly.  \u8220\'93But it seems to me that it is the sickest thing a father
.....\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The other man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s eyebrows lifted warningly as
 one of my employees cycled past to begin work.  \u8220\'93Do you have somewhere
 we can talk?\u8221\'94 the man calling himself Pericles asked.  \u8220\'93Perhaps
 you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d like to take me for a drive.  Show me the sights. I don
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t know this part of the world at all.\u8221\'94\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 Being the boss I could start work when I wanted and my six employees
 were well able to work without my supervision, and I was confident they would.  
I nodded agreement and as Pericles walked around the car to the passenger{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s door I opened my own and thought about the implications of what he 
had said.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 It was reasonable to assume that any man willing to argue in favour
 of my having sex with my daughter was likely to be having or have had sex with 
his own, if he had one. Mine was not a big town so there was a reasonable chance
 I might one day meet any of the men within it, socially or on business.  To meet
 in such circumstances a man I had good reason to believe committed incest could
 be awkward for both of us and potentially dangerous for him so it made good sense
 to bring in for this meeting someone from another region altogether.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 That this King of Antioch was actually able to do so, however, was
 a strong indication that he had tentacles that stretched a long way.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I turned the car out of the yard and drove back towards town.  Pericles
 did up his seat-belt.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I can\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t tell you the history of the
 Order of the Kings of Antioch,\u8221\'94 he began.  \u8220\'93Because I don}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t know it.  It can hardly pre-date 1608, when }\u8216\'91{\lang2057
Pericles}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  was first staged unless, of course, Shakespeare himself
 was already a King in the Order and the play was a nod to it.  After all, Shakespeare
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s own daughter was in her late teens at the time.\u8221\'94
  He shrugged the speculation away.  \u8220\'93I doubt it has any written records
.  As far as I know it has no Grand-Master or committee, no constitution and certainly
 no membership lists.  It does have a number of rules but I don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t know who drew them up.  They were passed on to me, and every King I have met subscribes
 to them because if you don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t recognise their inherent rightness
 you have no business being a King at all.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93There are no subscriptions or fees and only two qualifications
 for membership.  One I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m sure you can imagine.\u8221\'94 He
 gave me a significant sideways glance.  \u8220\'93The other is that you agree to
 abide by the rules.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He fell silent for a moment as I drove, as though considering what
 he was going to say next.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93If you join,\u8221\'94 he said eventually.  \u8220\'93You
 will find that men you already know are Kings in the Order.  They will introduce
 you to others and you will become part of a circle, maybe a number of circles.  
Wheels within wheels, as it were.  How much involvement you want will be up to you
.  One of the few requirements is that you keep you eyes open for other men who 
might qualify as a  King, or has the potential to, in order that the Order can extend
 offer such assistance as it can.  As it has in your case.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par
}}

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\fs24\kerning28 So someone who knew I lived alone with my twelve-year-old daughter
 had seen the possibility of incest between us.  It surely had to be someone I knew
, too.  Two of the men who worked for me had daughters, though in one case the girl
 was only six.  Did my accountant have a daughter?  Did my lawyer?  Both knew of
 my circumstances.  So did my doctor, come to that and yet I didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t even know if he was married.  Or was it one of Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
s teachers?  I had friends with daughters, too.  Which one of that long list was
 having sex with his daughter?  I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t begin to guess.  
Why should it be just one of them, come to that?  Surely in a town the size of the
 one I lived in the circle of Kings would know pretty much who one another were.  
And I had heard not a whisper of it.  I was impressed despite my reservations.\par
}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I am a King,\u8221\'94 the man said softly, looking ahead
 through the windscreen.  \u8220\'93Have been for twenty years.  It has been the
 joy, the jewel of my life.  My daughter is happily married to a wonderful man and
 has four children, none of them mine.  She has a career of her own and if you were
 to ask her she would tell you that she has no guilt, no regrets, no shame about
 her relationship with me.  The love she has with and for me is every bit as full
 as the love she shares with her husband and in no way diminishes or conflicts with
 it.  It is as it should be.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He sighed.  \u8220\'93But as it so often isn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t.  The purpose of the Order is to provide guidance for our Kings and support for
 our Princesses.  It is an uncomfortable fact of life for biologists, behaviourists
, anthropologists, sociologists, jurists and all sorts of {\lang5129\u8216\'91}ists
 that incest is quite common in nature.  Animals seem to have no instinctive aversion
 to it as was once assumed, even among the higher primates.  A young male chimp 
is often initiated into sex by his mother.  A silverback gorilla will aggressively
 include his daughters in his harem and mate with them.  Early missionaries taking
 the Word of God to primitive societies often commented on promiscuous sex within
 families, particularly in Polynesia.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But once you have complex societies you have social manipulators
 and with them, eventually, you have the great paranoia, Judaism.\u8221\'94{\lang2057
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He shot me a sideways glance.  \u8220\'93You a Jew?\u8221\'94  I
 shook my head.  He accepted it neutrally.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Take a jingoistic, backward, paternalistic bronze-age tribal
 grouping and invest it with a bloody-minded, vengeful, bean-counting god.  Equate
 pleasure with frivolity.  Blame your failures on god\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s wrath
 for your frivolity rather than your own inadequacies and you have a thought-police
 stamping out everything not sanctioned by your god, as interpreted by the aesthetes
.  From Judaism to Christianity and the monastic misogynists denying the sex act
 even between husband and wife except for procreation.  Hence to Islam, female circumcision
 and women wrapped in curtains from head to foot in an attempt to deny the very 
existence of sex.\u8221\'94   \par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He snorted.  \u8220\'93That{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s not official Antioch
 policy, by the way.  As far as I know it doesn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t have any.  
That{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s just my own slant on history.  The historical reasons
 why even today we have to have sex in dark corners with the light off rather than
 glory in it under the sun on the steps of the Temple as the ancient Greeks did, 
an act of divine worship.\u8221\'94\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 He paused as though for me to comment but I negotiated the traffic
 in silence, still digesting this new view of my cultural history.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93And of course the Romanics further refined the notion that
 denial and suffering was good for the soul, that sexuality was base and that abstinence
, like fasting, earned you credit points in heaven.  The harder the temptation was
 to resist the greater the rewards for resisting it, in the afterlife.  Poor fools
.  That\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s the route to obsession and breakdown.  How much Grand
 Opera ends in suicide?  Call that healthy?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93OK,\u8221\'94 I cut in.  \u8220\'93I\u8217\'92{\lang2057
ll grant you that a man who.... His daughter...\u8221\'94  I paused awkwardly.\par
}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Screws his daughter,\u8221\'94 the other man supplied helpfully
.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yeah, screws his daughter,\u8221\'94 I echoed angrily, 
\u8220\'93Isn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t going to go to Hell for it when he dies.  Sure
 it}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll make him feel great.  What middle-aged man isn}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t going to enjoy screwing a girl young enough to be his daughter 
rather than a woman his own age?  But what about her, eh?  What about the poor bloody
 kid who}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s being screwed by her father?\u8221\'94  I steered
 the car around a corner with unnecessary violence and had to correct the line abruptly
 to avoid a parked lorry.  With an effort I eased my white-knuckled grip on the 
wheel and let the car}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s speed fall back towards the legal limit
.  I didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t want to get stopped by the police with a man in
 my car who screwed his daughter.  The authorities would take Julie away from me
 at the slightest whiff of what he was talking about.  He seemed unperturbed.\par
}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93What indeed.  You cut to the chase.  Our Princesses are
 what the Order is really about.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I shot him a scornful glance but he met it and nodded a slow confirmation
.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I and every King of Antioch understand what you are coming
, painfully, to understand, which is that incest is perfectly natural.  More than
 that, it is beautiful.  The love a father has for his daughter and she has for 
him is, or should be, incredibly special.  It is unconditional.  It doesn\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t have to be earned, though it can be lost.  It comes from what you are
, not what you do.  The love of mother for son is similar and though mothers love
 their daughters and fathers their sons that love is not the same for it is not...
\u8221\'94 he paused, flapping his hands helplessly.  \u8220\'93It is not ying and
 yang.  Not male and female.  If you don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t know what I mean
 I can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t explain it.\u8221\'94 He looked across at me and I
 nodded.  I didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t have a son but even if I had I could not
 imagine loving him the way I loved Julie.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Add to that love the intimacy, the shared joy of sex and
 you have something approximating the love of a Romeo for a Juliet, which few of
 us can hope to experience with our wives or partners.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I nodded again.  In my way I had loved Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s mother, but not like that.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93We Kings can understand that,\u8221\'94 the other man went
 on, encouraged by my agreement, \u8220\'93 as we have lived and loved, and experienced
 sex.  But our Princesses can\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t.  Your daughter loves you, and
 part of her yearns to have sex with you....\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I stiffened and he shrugged again.  \u8220\'93OK.  I don{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t know that.  I know your daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s twelve, her 
mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s dead and she lives with you.  I don{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t know her name or anything else about her.  The King of Antioch who has observed
 you together says she{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s clearly very fond of you and you of
 her, as it should be, and suspected that if you had not already moved on to a sexual
 relationship you would both be very tempted to have one.  So often that situation
 leads to one or other tragedy, which is what the Order of the Kings of Antioch 
tries to avoid.\u8221\'94\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93One or other tragedy?\u8221\'94 I asked, as he seemed to
 want me to.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93One, that each thinks the other would be repulsed by and
 reject the introduction of a sexual aspect to the relationship and so denies it
 and lets it pass by for ever or, two, that it begins but you are each burdened 
by shame and guilt, making it a thing of lust rather than passion.\u8221\'94{\lang2057
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 That made sense.  \u8220\'93But still......\u8221\'94 I said.\par
}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93If your daughter is a normal girl she is becoming aware
 of her sexuality.  She is becoming aware of the effect she has on men.  And you
 are the most important man in her life.  She cannot help affecting you with her
 sexuality, and cannot help seeing how you respond to it.  But she sees you resisting
 it and fighting it and so starts blaming herself for something she cannot help.  
She wants to explore this exciting new world, test her power, experience orgasm - 
especially the ultimate orgasm only a penis in her vagina can give her- , she needs
 to reassure the mother in her that she can draw seed from the male whenever she
 wants, so that when she needs it for fertilisation, it will be there.  She may 
not think in those terms, but that\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s what it is.  If she}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s fortunate she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll have an elder brother to 
fulfil that role and bring her to maturity.  The Kings of Antioch would always encourage
 incest between brother and sister for that reason.  But  I understand your daughter
 has no brother so unless you are going to lock her away from boys, or brainwash
 her with threats and inhibitions to repress her sexuality, she will have to open
 herself and experiment with some older boy or boys from her school, and probably
 become abused, gossipped about, infected with an STD or even pregnant.  And this
 while the man who loves her and wouldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t hurt or harm her 
in any way, and who she loves and respects and trusts, and who she really wants 
to lead her through this new, strange, intimidating, thrilling, world, acts as though
 her body, her sex and her sexuality are the most repugnant things on earth.\u8221
\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 The truth of that pierced me.  The more I had become aware of my
 daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s lovely body, her budding sexuality, the harder I
 had tried to ignore or deny it and she must have been aware of it.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93So you succumb,\u8221\'94 the stranger in my car said.  
\u8220\'93You take her to your bed and you share joy.  And you tell her it has to
 be a secret, which she understands.  She feels fulfilled, a woman able to satisfy
 the needs of the most important man in her life, yet she has to hide it and pretend
 to be a virgin schoolgirl.  She\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s done something which felt
 wonderful to her, but which all her experience of the world says was a terrible
 thing - something so bad you could be sent to prison for it and she could be }\u8216
\'91{\lang2057 taken into care.}\u8217\'92{\lang2057   Her girlfriends gossip about
 boys they}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve teased or flirted with and she, with no need 
for such things, has to pretend or avoids her peer groups.  She thinks the fathers
 of other girls don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t touch them the way you touch her and 
despite herself will not be able to wonder if it isn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t quite
 normal after all, that you might after all be perverted for taking her, and her
 perverted for wanting you to and enjoying it.  Two or three years of that gnaws
 away at even the most loving of father-daughter relationships.  The sweet innocence
 and delicious complicity of the beginning is forgotten and doubts creep in, hints
 at blame - you should have been strong enough to resist, she must have been a bit
 of a slut to let you.  Oh, it happens.  For all that the Order tries we miss so
 many.\u8221\'94 He grimaced with chagrin.  \par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yet if you were a King in the Order,\u8221\'94 he went 
on after a moment, \u8220\'93Your princess will meet other princesses.  Girls her
 own age and older who are doing what she is doing, with loving fathers.  Girls 
she probably already knows and respects are sharing her experience of joy with no
 guilt or shame, so why should she feel any?  Women like the woman she hopes to 
become will tell her that their fathers screwed them when they were girls and are
 screwing them still, and it is one of the most beautiful things they know.  Oh, 
your princess will know it is still something she has to hug to her heart, that 
one word of your relationship to the wrong person or at the wrong time could have
 awful, devastating consequences.  But she will no longer be alone.  She will no
 longer be burdened with a huge secret she thinks she alone carries.  She will have
 friends who know and understand, and who share what she shares.  The Order of the
 Kings of Antioch exists mainly to support, protect and nurture our Princesses.\u8221
\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 My hands on the steering-wheel were shaking and my mouth was dry
.  \u8220\'93Perhaps you{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d better think about getting back to
 work,\u8221\'94 my companion said gently.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I had to concentrate in order just  to work out a route back.  I
 felt shattered by what I had heard.  We drove for a while in silence as if the 
other man was allowing me time to order my thoughts.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But,\u8221\'94 I said eventually.  \u8220\'93Julie, my 
daughter, is only twelve.  Surely that\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s too young.\u8221\'94
\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Maybe,\u8221\'94 the other man said.  \u8220\'93I don\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t know her.  Physically she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s probably not too
 young even if she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s still growing, but psychologically.....?  
You}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll have to judge that one.  But if she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s coming on to you, even if she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s not fully aware that}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s what she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s doing, I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d
 say she}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s psychologically ready as well.  You could wait, 
but the back of the bike-sheds are already there and waiting.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I remembered my fears that some boy might already be getting into
 Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s knickers.  I was reasonably sure she hadn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t let one yet, but was also sure she was well aware that they wanted 
to.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93What about... Well.... I mean.... The genetics and all 
that?\u8221\'94 I worked up to.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93The second rule of the Order is that you must never, ever
 get your Princess pregnant.  Ever.\u8221\'94  He shrugged.  \u8220\'93Of course
 it happens.  No contraception is 100% guaranteed and at times desire overcomes 
the most sensible rule.  If it happens the Order can help, for abortion is the only
 real option.  The genetic risk is actually very low in the absence of an obvious
 family genetic defect and in fact genetics can work the other way as well, reinforcing
 positive traits like intelligence or certain talents.  The problem is dealing with
 the child\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s inevitable ultimate curiosity as to his parentage
.  How can you tell a teenager that his or her father is also his or her grandfather
?  And DNA testing can now penetrate that secret, however deeply hidden.  It has
 happened.  If the Princess as an adult really wants to bear her father}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s child even after the counselling we provide, we will support her with
 DNA profiling and anything else she wants, but we really, really don}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t recommend it.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93What are the other rules?\u8221\'94 I asked{\lang2057\par
}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well, they aren\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t written down so they
 don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t exist word for word.  Any King of Antioch you talk to
 will tell them differently but the gist is the same.  Number one, never forget 
that your daughter is a Princess and always treat her like one.  Don}\u8217\'92{
\lang2057 t forget that if she hadn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t agreed to kiss you, you
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d still be a frog.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I shot a puzzled glance at him.  \u8220\'93Remember the fairy-tale
, the frog and the Princess?\u8221\'94 he prompted.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I did, of course.  I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d read it often enough 
to my daughter as she lay motherless in her cot during her early years.  The princess
 who agrees to kiss an ugly frog, which is transformed into a handsome prince as
 a result.  No man could become a King of Antioch unless his daughter first agrees
 to kiss him.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Number two,\u8221\'94 he went on.  \u8220\'93Never, ever
 do anything to harm or hurt your Princess, or risk getting her pregnant.  Ever.
{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Number three, the word of your Princess is law.  If she
 says she has a headache, she has a headache.  To take her by force or against her
 will is rape.\u8221\'94  He shot a sideways glance at me.  \u8220\'93Were you aware
 that the rape of a Princess is one of the two crimes still punishable by death 
in this Country?\u8221\'94  I wasn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t, but I believed him.  }
\u8216\'91{\lang2057 Treason is the other,\u8221\'94 he added calmly.  \u8220\'93
And then only in wartime.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Number four,\u8221\'94 he went on.  \u8220\'93Always help
 a fellow King where you can.  You\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re not a Mason,\u8221\'94
 he added with certainty, which I assume meant there had to be Kings among Freemasons
 to know that.  \u8220\'93But the principles are the same.  There are no guarantees
, of course, but I think you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll find your business will improve
.\u8221\'94  I couldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t help pricking my ears up at that.  
\u8220\'93In return if you can help a fellow King you should do so, although not
 to your own detriment.  Like the Masons}\u8217\'92{\lang2057  we do have signs 
we can use to identify one another.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Finally,\u8221\'94 he said slowly, \u8220\'93Betrayal is
 unforgivable.  There have been men who have tried to join us in order to be able
 to write a tell-all book, or sell the story to the tabloids.  We hate that,\u8221
\'94 he added lightly but with an edge to his voice.  \u8220\'93And we will do what
 is necessary to protect ourselves.  If there is a Princess involved we will do 
what we can to protect her but ultimately.....\u8221\'94  He let the threat hang
, then, \u8220\'93But we have few doubts in that direction concerning you,\u8221
\'94 he ended cheerfully.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Finally, it is not a rule of the Order but you could keep
 a look out for potential Kings of Antioch.  If someone you know has a daughter 
and they seem close...\u8221\'94  He shrugged.  \u8220\'93Well, that is how we came
 across you.  I hope you don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t regret it?\u8221\'94  I couldn
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t respond to that.  I still didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t know
.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Most of our leads, though, come from our Princesses,\u8221
\'94 he went on.  \u8220\'93Girls who are being abused can rarely keep it secret
 from their peers, even if they want to.  If we can, we intervene and can usually
 turn an abusive father into a King with a daughter he can look on as a Princess
 instead of a slut.  Even where it is a proper loving relationship a Princess can
 often spot the signs, girl to girl as it were, and drop us a hint.\u8221\'94 He
 gave me a smile.  \u8220\'93Not all of us become involved in the recruiting.  It
 can be a bit tricky.  But rewarding, too.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 We were back in the industrial estate, almost at my unit.  \u8220
\'93You can drop me at the corner,\u8221\'94 he offered.  \u8220\'93Any questions
?\u8221\'94\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 I had none.  My mind was still struggling to come to grips with 
what I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d heard.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well,\u8221\'94 he said as I drew into the kerb.  \u8220
\'93We will not contact you again.  If you want to contact us, place this ad in 
your local paper for three consecutive nights.\u8221\'94 He drew a small piece of
 paper from a pocket and placed it on the dash.  \u8220\'93On the back is an IP 
address and a password.  The password is changed every Sunday.  You might find it
 interesting.  You might not.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 A black saloon pulled into the kerb behind me.  I realised it had
 been following me for some time, perhaps all the time.  The man opened the car 
door beside him but kept it pulled to.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93If you wish to join the Order there are two \u8216\'91{
\lang2057 initiation tests}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 , as it were,\u8221\'94 he said, 
his voice deadly serious.  \u8220\'93They are not easy, but if you think about it
 you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll see how necessary they are.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93First, if you place the ad. you will be contacted.  You
 must show the contact a photo of yourself having intercourse with your daughter
.  It must be clearly you and her,\u8221\'94 he added sharply as I drew breath to
 protest, overriding me.  \u8220\'93Then,\u8221\'94 he went on as I glared at him
, shocked by the suggestion, \u8220\'93You will be contacted by a man you know, 
with a daughter your daughter knows, and you will be required to make love to your
 daughter in their presence.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93That\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s.... sick,\u8221\'94 I spluttered
, furious.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Think about it, Mr.  Walker,\u8221\'94 the other said calmly
.  \u8220\'93Can we let men join the Order and know what they will know about the
 fathers they will meet, purely on their say-so, an unsubstantiated claim that they
 screw their daughters?  But even photos can be doctored and, moreover, we need 
to know that the relationship is consensual, based on love and mutual joy, not fear
 or moral blackmail.  How else can we judge that except by seeing it in action?  
The King and his Princess who bear witness to it will themselves prove their love
 to you at the same time, for trust requires trust, yet they risk much just by agreeing
 to meet with you, for you will know a terrible secret about them the moment they
 contact you.  Hence the photograph produced to a stranger first.  Think about it
, and if you can think of a better way we\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d love to hear it.
\u8221\'94\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 He slipped out of the car leaving me still shaken by what he had
 proposed.  \u8220\'93I hope we{\lang5129\u8217\'92}ll meet again one day, Mr. Walker
,\u8221\'94 he said with a smile and was gone.  The black car pulled away from the
 kerb and swept past me, and still I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t move.  Take photographs
 of myself having sex with my daughter? Have sex with her in front of witnesses?  
It was outrageous.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28 When I had calmed down enough to think about getting the car moving
 again, I was still too wound up to face the hustle of my business and I drove out
 into the countryside instead, where I parked up and thought long and hard about
 all I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d heard that morning.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 8.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab That evening I watched Julie closely for any sign that she was
 {\lang5129\u8216\'91}coming on to me{\lang5129\u8217\'92} as my contact that morning
 had suggested she might.  She was as lively, bustling and cheerful as ever and 
yes, my Mr. Hyde side argued, she did seem to throw her shoulders back and thrust
 her little bust out at me sometimes, she did seem to wiggle her little bottom in
 its tight jeans a little unnecessarily as she walked across the kitchen in front
 of me, she didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t draw away when I leaned {\lang5129\u8216\'91
}accidentally{\lang5129\u8217\'92} against her as we shared the washing-up at the
 sink.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Nonsense, snapped my Dr. Jekyll furiously.  She{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s just a lively, supple twelve-year-old girl with no idea what she is doing.  When
 I sent her to bed she stood meekly before me as I laid my hands on her fragile 
shoulders and kissed her forehead as I so often did, and she gave no hint that she
 had the slightest interest in what was behind my flies only an inch from her little
 flat stomach.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I gave her half an hour to fall asleep and then powered up my PC
 and logged onto the Net.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 A DNS look-up of the dotted IP address I had been given came back
 with shttp.{\f1\fs20 E080C4F9}.org.  So I typed the numbers into my browser and
 hit the go button.  It returned with a password logon window so I entered the password
 I had been given.  My browser informed me that it was setting up a secure connection
 and then gave me a page with a several dozen folder icons and not a letter of text
.  I selected a folder at random and it opened into an index of numbered jpeg images
 and still no text.  Half suspecting what I was going to find I clicked on one and
 then others.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The image was of a man having intercourse with a girl who looked
 not a day over fourteen.  The setting was clearly a family home - quite an upmarket
 one - and the man screwed the girl in what looked very much like a teenage girl
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bedroom, on a thick sheepskin mat before an empty Scandinavian
-style fireplace and on a wide shining-oak dining table while she sucked him off
 in a marble shower and against the background of a blue indoor swimming pool.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It was pure porn and I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d seen it all before 
on the Net, except this was different.   Partly because the girl was clearly underage
 in most jurisdictions, but mostly because it became clear as I scanned the images
 that she was either the man{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s real daughter or a great deal
 of trouble had been taken to make it look as if she was.  For as well as the photos
 of them having sex there was a snapshot of the man and the girl fully clothed and
 together on a beach, of them posing hammily with a trolly of groceries in a supermarket
 car-park and, convincingly, one of a bride and groom with the wedding-guests arranged
 around them and including the girl as one of the bridesmaids with the man standing
 proudly behind her, his hands on her shoulders just as a father might do, and only
 a father could decently do.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Dry-mouthed I reviewed them.  In the photos of their incest the 
girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s face was sometimes blank, introverted as she concentrated
 on the sensations her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis was waking in her vagina
 or mouth, or sometimes bright-eyed and laughing or gaping in ecstasy.  In none 
did I see any suggestion of sullenness on her part, no unhappiness in her eyes, 
no body-language that spoke of reluctance or coercion.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I viewed another directory, and another.  The homes were often not
 as plush as the first, yet were homes and not motel rooms or brothels.  The girls
 were often older, but some were even younger.  As a printer I had an eye for photography
 and saw some sequences clearly taken by a professional with good equipment, some
 by amateurs with mediocre equipment and two which were clearly stills taken from
 a fixed video camera.  All seemed to be father and daughter.  Many included what
 were either genuine or would have to have been very carefully staged family snapshots
, father, mother and children, with the same father and his daughters engaged in
 intercourse in other photos.  A studio shot of a proud father standing beside a
 happy girl in a graduation gown and a quality shot of him lying between her legs
 with his penis deep in the same girl{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s vagina.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 And in all of them the girl was clearly a happy, willing participant
 in sex.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 If the site was connected with of the Order of the Kings of Antioch
 it was clearly international in extent for where the photos contained clues as 
to the country of origin they ranged from northern Europe to the Mediterranean, 
the USA to the tropics and in one set father and a rather tubby daughter sported
 in naked abandon in a vast, empty red desert which could only be Australia.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 With my prick aching I logged off and closed down my PC.  Yes, I
 envied the Kings of Antioch.  I envied them their laughing, beautiful, twelve-or
-thirteen-year-old daughters who clung bright-eyed and tousled to their arms as 
daughters will in crowded, bustling airport concourses, sit astride their thighs
 with their backs arched and little breasts taut in passion as their father{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s penis filled their vagina and sit at his side at a crowded family table
, arm flung around his neck but all their attention and a point-making finger aimed
 at someone out of shot.  I envied them their sixteen-year-old daughters, elegant
 in the saddle with their fathers proud at the horse{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s head 
and the cup in his hands at a County Show, braced naked against a side-board bearing
 the cup to one side and her father shafting her from behind, and grinning broadly
 from the grainy pixels of a newspaper photo with the cup beneath her black-jacketed
 breasts and the caption missing.  I envied them their adult daughters, manicured
 professional women with BMWs no-longer the freckled gymslipped-girls in the school
 photographs from the {\lang5129\u8216\'91}70's but still gasping with pleasure 
as their father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s seed flowed into them.  I envied them their
 daughters, but I too had a daughter.  Did I have the courage to claim this kingdom
?\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I turned off the downstairs lights and crept soft-footed upstairs
, blood pounding.  At Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bedroom door I paused.  Other 
fathers had sex with their twelve-year-old daughters.  I had seen it.  Why shouldn
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t I?  I quietly opened the door and crept in.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The room was dim with light from the sodium street-lights filtering
 through her curtains.  Her body was an indistinct mound beneath her quilt, her 
head wrapped in tousled hair black against the virgin white of the pillow.  She 
was breathing quietly.  She could do little to stop me, would do nothing to stop
 me if I slipped into her bed.  She was so tiny, so innocent, so defenceless.  I
 stood looking at her for a long time, and then crept out of the room again.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 9.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab My Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had fought each other to an exhausted
 draw.  When Julie clattered down to breakfast the next morning, her little breasts
 pushing at her white school blouse, the pleats of her blue school skirt swinging
 from her slender hips Mr. Hyde howled like forlorn wolf alone in frozen arctic 
wastes but Dr. Jekyll, who was maintaining that icy control, could say lightly, 
\u8220\'93Good morning, sweetheart,\u8221\'94 and kiss her chastely on the cheek
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 In fact I was numbed by a vast truth with implications too huge 
to take quickly in board.  A man could have sex with his twelve-year-old daughter
 without its being the abuse that I had always believed, that all the commentators
 on TV and in the newspapers maintained and the whole of society seemed to assume
.  In fact it could be the opposite of abuse, and a joyous affirmation of love of
 the sort which sex in marriage was supposed to be but so often wasn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t.  I had seen that love in the eyes of girls looking at their fathers as they
 made love, seen it in the eyes of fathers looking fondly at those same daughters
 crewing sailing-boats, collecting tennis cups in grassy courts and receiving ribbon
-wrapped scrolls in college halls.  Since the age of twelve when I first heard the
 word I had been conditioned that incest was something evil and foul, the work of
 deviants and perverts, the sick and the inadequate.  Now, in Biblical terms, the
 scales had fallen from my eyes and I was blinded by the light.  Incest is beautiful
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My Dr. Jekyll coughed warningly.  OK.  The father who has forfeited
 his daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s love, beaten it from her with his fists or let
 it shrivel and die through want of care and attention, and who then forces sex 
on her is a piece of scum who deserves jail instead of her.  But the father who 
loves his daughter and is loved by her can, when they are ready, mix those two separate
 loves in the fiery crucible of sex and cast from them a single golden, unbreakable
 ring which will forever bind them together in love and trust, which will survive
 whatever their separate futures may hold.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Even my Dr. Jekyll had accepted that.  My conscience no longer told
 me that I was depraved and corrupt to desire sex with my daughter.  It no longer
 insisted that an act of sex with her with be the moral equivalent of laughing as
 I tortured a kitten or of deliberately pimping her virginity to the highest bidder
.  The only thing stopping me having sex with my daughter was Julie herself.  Or
, rather, my fear of what Julie would think of me if I did, for I could not bear
 the thought of losing her love and turning it into fear or disgust.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Many men would envy the King of Antioch, but few have the courage
 to claim the kingdom.  Now I understood only to well what the stranger had meant
 outside my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s school less than a month before.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Numbed by the shock, by the immensity of what I had discovered, 
I let the rest of the week drift past, burying myself in work.  I received a repeat
 of the print order and knew the Kings of Antioch were still dangling a carrot in
 front of me but it wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t necessary.  I had been well and truly
 converted.  The problem was my daughter.  She could not but help know that I fancied
 her.  She was learning what it was to be a woman and knew I was a man. She might
 even enjoy teasing me a little.  But the gulf between that and actually having 
sex with her was huge and she might not be prepared for that.  Might not want it
 to go that far.  Might yet flee from me in horror and disgust if I actually fondled
 her, flee in her mind if not with her feet.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 If I had sex with my daughter I did not know whether she would look
 at me afterwards with eyes of love or eyes of loathing, and that was what I was
 risking.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Like a man awaiting his own hanging it was in my mind whatever else
 I did, running with it round and round until the issue bobbed to the surface like
 a log below a waterfall.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It was all about virginity.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 In my cultural upbringing virginity had been a powerful archetype
.  While never strongly religious I had still been immersed in the Christian story
, particularly at Christmas with its constant, potent imagery of the Virgin Mary
, pure, meek and mild.  Central to my heritage, too, were the Arthurian Romances
 with the Knights and their ladies, chaste and virtuous, and the compelling picture
 of the unicorn, untamed might and beauty combined, submitting its wild power to
 the innocent will of the virgin.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Then, as the King of Antioch in my car had pointed out, came the
 Romantics and the near-total divorce of love and sex culminating in the Victorians
 and Arthur Rackham{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s paintings of white-gowned maidens with
 their glow of innocence keeping at bay and even unaware of the sexuality drawn 
as the lurking monsters in the dark, wild, tangled forest of raw nature surrounding
 them.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had no real doubt that my little girl was a virgin, and her virginity
 was what I was yearning to take from her.  It had nothing to do with the physical
 state of her hymen.  Her vagina would not be altered in any way by the first penis
 to penetrate it, even were it to be her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s.  Yet she 
would know she was no longer a virgin.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 A virgin, pure and unsullied.  Thus the non-virgin must be impure
 and corrupted.  What is the opposite of virgin?  In English it is whore.  Only 
one other role is available to the female - wife/mother.  Woman is only allowed 
to be Virgin, Wife/Mother or Whore.  Even the English language conspired against
 me.  My little girl, knowing herself to be no longer a virgin and unable to lay
 claim to the title wife/mother would be left only with whore as a self-image of
 what she was.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 How could I make a whore of my own daughter?\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Not that I despised whores.  How could I after my visits to the 
massage parlour?  The girls I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d had sex with for money had seemed
 a cheerful lot, confident, unabashed and well-adjusted.  I didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t want my little Julie to be amongst them, though, my Dr. Jekyll correctly 
observed.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 That{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s because you want her all for yourself
, Mr.  Hyde told me just as accurately.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 As my daughter had grown I had imposed the image of Virgin on her
 just as society expected, even required me to.  And she, having no reason to do
 otherwise, had accepted it.  I had protected her from exposure to sex just as my
 society, my culture did - separate changing-room for boys and girls, censorship
, criminal sanctions against sex in public.  Though little Julie was well aware 
pornographic films existed and was bound to be curious I would never have dreamt
 of letting her see one.  I even made sure she was in bed before the nine-o{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}clock deadline after which TV allows a little nudity and very soft porn
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 As a result I knew she was virginally embarrassed and confused about
 sex.  I recalled her giggling once at a sexy joke on TV, and then giving me a little
 nervous sideways glance as though I might be angry at her for understanding it.  
Oh my poor Julie.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 With my new understanding my heart bled for her.  I had shoe-horned
 her into the role of Virgin and she had accepted it  because she had no other choice
 - no awareness of another choice.  Now she was starting to kick against it, wanting
 to explore this mysterious, exciting, strange new world of sex opening up before
 her but which ran entirely counter to the way she had been brought up believing
 she should think and act.  And very well aware that if she were to chose to give
 up the role, the self-image, of the Virgin, the only other thing left for her to
 be in the absence of a wedding-ring was Whore - impure, dirty and corrupted in 
the eyes of society even if not her own.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 How many of the girls I had paid for sex in the dingy rooms of the
 town{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s massage parlour, as brothels are now called, began the
 path to that room in their father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bed, I wondered?    Had
 accepted that path because the role of Virgin had been taken from them leaving 
them with no option but to accept  the self-image of Whore?  How many young woman
 with children by half-a-dozen different men had been in court on drugs charges 
and blamed their tragic lives on abuse by their fathers, because they had been stripped
 of the role of Virgin and so seen themselves as Whore?  How could I make love to
 my own little Virgin without forcing her into the role of Whore?\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Then I realised that, thanks to the Kings of Antioch, I knew.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 10.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab That Friday after school I surprised and delighted my little
 Julie by driving her forty miles to the city to watch an inter-counties school 
netball match, tickets for which had been as rare as bargains in a brothel.  During
 the match she had screeched herself hoarse in company with ten-thousand other adolescent
 girls and I had wallowed in the sight of the adolescent schoolgirl players on court
 in their little pleated dresses with their long athletic legs and hard-muscled 
thighs.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Near the end of the forty-mile drive home again I again surprised
 Julie by stopping at a restaurant for a meal - not a roadside caf\u233\'e9 nor 
yet one intimidatingly up-market - where I treated her courteously like the woman
 she would one day be and allowed her a surreptitious glass of wine.  By the time
 we reached home at near midnight she was drowsy and content and I was honed to 
a state of acute tension like an overstressed wire.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Such was the care and intensity of my planning that I had prepared
 the house for this return before we left and, yawning and sleepy, my little girl
 trailed me into a dimly-lit lounge with curtains tightly drawn.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Sweetheart,\u8221\'94 I took her by the hand and led her
 to a chair.  \u8220\'93I want to talk.\u8221\'94  I released her, sat down and 
patted my lap.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It had been years since she had sat in my lap - years since I had
 decided that it was no longer appropriate for my Virgin to sit on her father{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s penis - and I saw the fact penetrate my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s sleepiness to cause puzzlement and a tinge of worry as to why I should be inviting
 her to do so now.  Was I going to impart some bad news, perhaps?   After a moment
 she settled into my lap, far heavier than she had been the last time she was there
.  I put an arm behind her shoulders, a hand on her waist and pulled her against
 me.  She snuggled into my arms but I could feel an alertness in her, a worry that
 the whole evening had been a preparation for something she wasn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t going to like.  Perhaps it had been.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Sweetheart.\u8221\'94  I gently kissed the top of her head
.  \u8220\'93I love you.  I will never stop loving you.  There is nothing you could
 do to make me stop loving you.  But I want to love you even more.  Love you in 
ways people say is wrong, but I can\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t help it.  Sweetheart, 
I want to sleep with you.  Would you permit it?\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 No, cried my Dr.  Jekyll in dismay.  You can{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t ask your own daughter that.  She might say yes. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 No, howled my Mr.  Hyde in dismay.  You can{\lang5129\u8217\'92}
t ask your own daughter that.  She might say no.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I felt Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s little body jump as she realised
 what I had asked her.  I heard her breath catch in her throat.  Imagined her thoughts
 freezing up with shock.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93You can say no,\u8221\'94 I told her steadily.  \u8220\'93
And I won\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t stop loving you.  I just won}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t be able to love you as much as I would like.  Or you can say you want to think
 about it and take as long as you want.  Years, if you want.  I shall not ask you
 again.\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I could feel her tense little body in my arms and wondered what 
she thinking.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Or you can say yes, and allow me to make love to you.  
You know all the rules say I shouldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t.  You know fathers are
 not supposed to make love to their daughters even when they}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
re sixteen and seventeen, let alone when their just twelve.  You know I}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 d be in big, big trouble if I slept with you and it was found out.  I
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m asking you to break the rules, sweetheart, and come hand
 in hand with me to somewhere new.  Somewhere not too many fathers and daughters
 go.  Somewhere rare and beautiful, but perhaps a little bit frightening and dangerous
 too.  Somewhere I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve never been before and where there aren
}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t any guidebooks or signposts, where I will be as dependent
 on you as you are on me.  And that}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s a big ask.  \par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93And of course,\u8221\'94 I added with a little sad laugh
 which was all my own tension would allow me.  \u8220\'93You\u8217\'92{\lang2057
re quite entitled not to fancy me.  After all, I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m old enough
 to be your father.\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t laugh and was silent, and I held 
her quietly, letting her think.  When a minute had passed I eased my arms around
 her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Go to bed, sweetheart,\u8221\'94 I urged her.  \u8220\'93
Think about it.  For as long as you want.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Dad,\u8221\'94 she whispered in response.  \u8220\'93If
 you want to..... I don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t mind.  But I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m
 a little scared.\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Of course she was.  She was a twelve-year-old virgin.  I was a thirty
-six-year-old man, and a father..\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93You don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t need to be scared, sweetheart
.  I would rather die than hurt you.  We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll take it slowly, 
a step at a time.\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She nodded, solemn eyes on my face.  \u8220\'93When.... I mean...
\u8221\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Whenever you want, sweetheart.  I will never come to your
 bed and you can sleep there whenever you want.  But if you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re
 willing to let your old dad love you, you can come to my bed any time and we will
 share it.\u8221\'94\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She nodded again.  \u8220\'93OK.\u8221\'94  She even managed a tight
 smile.  I relaxed my embrace and she slipped out of my lap.  \u8220\'93I{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}ll be up shortly,\u8221\'94 I told her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She walked from the room and I sat trembling.  What had I done?  
I had set about my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s love for me with a sledgehammer
, that{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s what, my Dr. Jekyll told me. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I heard her use the bathroom and a door close gently upstairs.  
Part of me wanted to sit there all night and crucify myself on the most appalling
 conjectures of what my daughter now thought of me.  Poor kid, with a dirty, disgusting
 father.  How could she not loath me?  Part of me wanted to wind the clock back 
a day, undo what had been done so that I could go on enjoying my daughter{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s love, pure and unsullied.  But a part of me needed to go to the loo
, and that part eventually overbore the others.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I made my way slowly upstairs, used the loo, had a quick shower 
and brushed my teeth.  Then I crossed to my bedroom and pushed open the door.\par
}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I could see Julie in the double bed she had been conceived in, a
 shape beneath the blankets on what had been her mother{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s side
.  I undressed and slipped into the bed on my side of it.  I guess she{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}d dozed off waiting for me, the little angel, but as I disturbed the 
mattress she woke and let me know it by shifting her position.  I reached out for
 her and took her in my arms.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She was warm, sleepy and naked.  I felt her small, soft breasts 
against my side, her smooth flanks beneath my hand and her thighs against my leg
.  I kissed her softly on the forehead, stroked her hair and told her to go back
 to sleep, and after a while she did.  A long while after that I did, too.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I woke in the grey dawn with my daughter in my bed.  As the light
 strengthened I lay watching her face on the pillow, innocent with sleep.  Then 
suddenly I was looking into her eyes, momentarily startled and confused as she wondered
 where she was and why, then steady and calm as she remembered.  I took her into
 my arms again and caressed her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Her breasts were small and round and surprisingly firm, and beautiful
.  Her arms and fingers were long and slender, her back was smooth and her bottom
 soft and round.  My prick was rock hard and brushed her leg but I promised her 
that I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d take it slowly and I did.  She was passive, still not
 sure enough of herself to make a move towards me, and I did not force myself on
 her.  \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Her stomach, though, was a silken pillow and between her thighs 
my gentle fingers brushed a patch of tight curls although I did not linger there
, or probe lower.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Gotta go to the loo, dad,\u8221\'94 she breathed and slipped
 from the bed.  White and sinuous in the clear morning light she scampered from 
the room.  Five minutes passed, then she came back.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She came back to my bed.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She scurried again, perhaps because the dawn air was cold on her
 skin, perhaps because she was still shy of my seeing her naked.  Yet I saw her 
little breasts, bold-nipple tipped, saw the thin tangle of young dark hair between
 her thighs.  Then her cold body was next to mine in the warm nest of the bed, and
 nestling up to mind with a giggle.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My prick was hard and yearning for her, pulsing between against 
her skin and trying to burrow between her legs but I could tell she was still nervous
 of it, shy of it, and I did not press her.  We cuddled for a while and then I climbed
 from the bed to begin getting her breakfast and mine as I always did, leaving her
 there.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I watched her during the day and saw her changed, although still
 Virgin.  She was no longer a child.  In the supermarket she stayed closer, consulting
 my list, commenting on prices, making suggestions.  Over lunch she was quiet and
 smiled, instead of chattering like a jackdaw.  I dropped her at the music school
 and retired to the park to wait, turning my back on the massage parlour.  Thanks
 to the Kings of Antioch I could afford it again, but thanks to the Kings of Antioch
 I had no need of it.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 In the evening, knowing no thirteen-year-old girl would want to 
be seen being taken to the cinema by her father, I took her to a jazz concert which
 she tried to enjoy.  Then, back home again, I kissed her on the forehead and whispered
, \u8220\'93Your bed or mine.  It{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s entirely up to you.\u8221
\'94\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She chose mine.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I kissed her gently on the lips, and on the nipples.  Her breasts
 were as young, as firm and as beautiful as they had been in the dawn.  I stroked
 her stomach, ran my fingers through the hair between her thighs and stroked her
 slit.  With a delicate fingertip I woke her clitoris, roused it from its nest and
 teased it.  She responded, hot and lush, so I took her hand and put it on my prick
, letting her feel its size and strength as I plumbed lower between her legs, oiled
 my finger in the hot wetness I had woken there and used it to stroke her clitoris
 more powerfully.  Carefully I brought her to a clitoral orgasm - my little twelve
-year-old daughter with her breath gusting in her throat, the body shuddering as
 her empty vagina convulsed, my fingers hot and wet between her legs, her hand gripping
 my prick and squeezing it, pulling it towards her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I rolled onto her and she spread her legs wide.  Her fingers guided
 my prick to her tight, virgin vagina as it cried out to be filled and fulfilled
, demanded its own orgasm as the fires lit by her clitoral one died away.  I felt
 myself slip inside her and then stop as the ring of her virginity resisted my penis
.  Still quivering with the echoes of her clitoral orgasm and the need to trigger
 her vaginal one my little daughter reared against me and I speared myself home.
\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I said I would not hurt her, and hurt her.  As her hymen tore I 
felt the jag of pain in her body, felt it in the gust of her breath against my throat
.  Then my black pubic hairs met hers, the glove of her vagina squeezed the shaft
 of my prick and the bulging red head of my penis met her cervix, forcing it open
 like a flower and I ejaculated thick and creamy into my daughter{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s uterus, her womb, as she squealed and convulsed to the orgasm born of it, 
the pain of her lost virginity forgotten.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Holding my weight off her little body I moved gently inside her, 
still iron hard, as she gathered her senses, little orgasmic tremors still quivering
 in her like aftershocks of an earthquake.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Oh, wow,\u8221\'94 she breathed, panting.{\lang2057\par
}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93How was that, my princess?\u8221\'94 I asked, kissing her
 forehead, which was the only part of her I could reach. {\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Oh, dad, that was....\u8221\'94  She squealed again as 
another aftershock shook her, her legs closing against mine to trap me inside her
 and her vagina pumping on my prick.{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I shafted her gently until I managed a second, weaker ejaculation
 into my daughter, by which time she was lying exhausted and shattered beneath me
, glowing.  Then, carefully, I eased myself out of her vagina and lay beside her
.  Wearily she brought her legs together.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Eugch.  I think the bed is a bit soggy,\u8221\'94 she observed
.  I knew there would be blood in the stain, too.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m afraid it happens, sweetheart,\u8221
\'94 I reassured her.  \u8220\'93We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll sort it out in a moment
.\u8221\'94  I drew her to me.  \u8220\'93I love you.  You}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re
 my Princess, now.  Princesses are special people, who the usual rules don}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t apply to.  They can do things ordinary girls can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I saw her grin in the dim light of the bedside table.  The title
 I had given her had pleased her.  She was Virgin no more and could not be Wife/
Mother to me as the King of Antioch{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s daughter had been to him
.  Yet she had an alternative to Whore and I had given it to her.   Princess.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My strength returned slowly and Julie began to fidget restlessly
 as the damp patch she was lying in cooled and became clammy beneath her.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Go have a shower,\u8221\'94 I told her.  \u8220\'93I\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 ll remake the bed.\u8221\'94 She slipped seal-like from between the
 sheets. \u8220\'93Princess,\u8221\'94 I stopped her.  \u8220\'93You can come back
 here, or go to your own bed.  Whatever you want.\u8221\'94 She grinned and left
 me.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Wearily I rolled out of the bed and stripped off the sheets.  Where
 my daughter had lain beneath me was a damp stain made by her vaginal sweat and 
my semen which had leaked out of her, all stained cherry by her virgin blood.  I
 added the undersheet and bundled them up for the laundry basket, turned the mattress
 and  remade the bed with fresh sheets from the mattress up.  Just as I was finishing
 Julie entered the room again.  Her flawless skin glowed and she was patting her
 hair dry.  If she had any shyness about me seeing her naked now I saw no sign of
 it.  \u8220\'93All yours,\u8221\'94 she said, referring to the shower.  \u8220\'93
I bled a little.\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I crossed to her and hugged her fresh, clean, dry body to my sweaty
 one.  \u8220\'93I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}m sorry, Princess.  And sorry if it hurt.  
But always it does, the first time.\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yeah.  I know,\u8221\'94 she said knowledgeably.  \u8220
\'93Now it\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s done, though....\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes, my Princess.  Now it\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s done.\u8221
\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She smiled and made her way to the bed, where she was clearly intending
 to sleep.  I had a shower, reflecting how good I felt, then joined her and slept
 the sleep of the innocent.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 11.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab Lying in bed with my daughter in my arms the following morning
, listening to the distant church bells summoning the faithful to mass, I asked 
my Princess how she felt.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93A little sore,\u8221\'94 she confessed ruefully.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Sorry.\u8221\'94 I kissed the tip of her nose.  \u8220\'93
But how do you feel in yourself? Now....\u8221\'94  I hesitated and took the plunge
.  \u8220\'93Now that you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re not a virgin any more.\u8221\'94
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She wrinkled her cute little nose.  \u8220\'93Who wants to be a 
virgin?\u8221\'94 she asked scornfully.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had to laugh.  I felt so good, for the last night{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s sex with my daughter had exhausted and drained all the urges and demands 
of my body leaving me feeling content and at peace, and here I was holding her lovely
 body gently in my arms, her head on my shoulder.  I had been so worried about the
 consequences that taking her virginity from her would have on her self-esteem, 
her image of herself, while all the time it had not mattered greatly to her.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93It\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s nicer being a Princess,\u8221\'94
 she added, giggling.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 12.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab Though she came to my bed every night we only kissed and cuddled
 until the following Thursday when she announced shyly that she thought she had 
healed up, and if I wanted ......  So I had careful intercourse with my daughter
 a second time.  Afterwards I lay panting on top of her with her nubile young body
 writhing gently beneath me and her tight little vagina pulling and squeezing at
 my prick in the aftermath of her own orgasms.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Better?\u8221\'94 I asked.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Mmmmm,\u8221\'94 she agreed, stretching languidly under
 me with her eyes still closed.  \u8220\'93Didn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t hurt at all
.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I nodded, pleased.  \u8220\'93Princess,\u8221\'94 I asked after 
a moment.  \u8220\'93Do you know any other girls who do this with their fathers?
\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She stopped squirming.  Looking under me at her face I found her
 eyes on me and that she was chewing her lip as she did when unsure of herself.\par
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well,\u8221\'94 she said slowly. \u8220\'93There\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s gossip.  But nothing for certain, that I know.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Do you think there might be gossip about us?\u8221\'94 
I asked, heart in my mouth.  Meeting Julie out of school on that first Monday after
 I had screwed her I had half expected to be met my a posse of teachers, policemen
 and social workers who had seen some signs in the no-longer virgin twelve-year-
old which had given the game away.  But there had just been Julie, trailing as ever
 out of the school gates with her hat on the back of her head, her jacket slung 
over one shoulder and her socks as ever around her ankles.  She looked every inch
 the Virgin she had been the week before, and I couldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t help
 but wonder how many other twelve, thirteen or fourteen-year-old schoolgirls passing
 out of the gate with her and looking just like virgin school-girls, were in fact
 anything but.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My little daughter, still with my prick its full length inside her
, hesitated.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I have been asked, a couple of times,\u8221\'94 she admitted
 reluctantly.  \u8220\'93If you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve ever...  You know.  But you
 hadn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t then, so I said you hadn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t.\u8221
\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93And now?\u8221\'94 I asked gently.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I shall say we don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t,\u8221\'94 she
 declared defiantly but I heard a doubt at the back of her voice, a small uncertainty
 betraying her lack of confidence that she could carry off the lie convincingly.
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Princess,\u8221\'94 I said softly.  \u8220\'93I\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 m not the only father who loves his daughter like this.  Lots, perhaps
 most, fathers want to.  But quite a lot don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t do it.  Maybe
 they don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t have the opportunity.  Maybe they don}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t think their daughters love them enough to want them to.  But a lot 
do.\u8221\'94  I gently slipped my penis out of her vagina, rolled onto my side 
and gathered her into my arms, aware that I was going to have to change the sheets
 again.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93We, the fathers that do, are a bit like witches in the 
Middle Ages.  Did they teach you about them at school?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Uhmm, not really.  They were burnt at the stake, weren\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t they?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Sometimes.  They weren\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t really evil
 women, though.  Not like the witch in }\u8216\'91{\lang2057 Snow White}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 , or in the fairy tales.  They were just women who believed in a different
,  older religion than Christianity.  They thought herbs and magic could heal illnesses
.  They thought the power of the mind could do things and perhaps it can if you 
believe it.  But they didn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t believe in Jesus, and the Bible
, because they were someone else}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s religion.  But Christianity
 thought it was the only true religion and that anything else had to be the work
 of the Devil so if they caught a witch they tried to make her believe in something
 she couldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t believe in and if she wouldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t they burned her.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Uh huh.\u8221\'94   I heard in her voice that Julie was
 wondering what I was on about.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Well, fathers who love their daughters like this,\u8221
\'94 I gave a naked body a squeeze against mine, \u8220\'93Are like those witches
 in the Middle Ages.  A lot of people say this is wrong.  If you asked them why 
they wouldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t have a real answer any more than the people who
 burned witches would be able to say why being a witch was wrong.  They just learned
 as kids that their parents thought it was wrong and have never used their brains
, or had the guts to ask themselves why it should be wrong, or they think everybody
 else thinks it}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s wrong and are scared of saying something 
different even if they have doubts.  Why, long ago, someone decided it was wrong
 and scared everyone else into thinking it is something we}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll
 talk about later,\u8221\'94 I promised her, kissing her on the nose, \u8220\'93
But for now we have to accept that I would be in almost as much trouble if I was
 caught doing this as a witch would have been in the Middle Ages if she was caught
 casting spells.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28  Witches in the Middle Ages had been liable to be hunted down by
 a self-righteous mob and burned at the stake.  A man sleeping with his own daughter
 was just as liable to being hunted down by a self-righteous mob and his life destroyed
, even at the beginning of the Twenty-first Century. I caught my daughter{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s little nod and was confident she understood as much.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But just as witches had their covens in the Middle Ages
, where they could be with other women who believed the same things, there are a
 lot of fathers who sleep with their daughters who have formed a secret society 
so that they can be friends with each other.  And their daughters can be friends
 with other girls who sleep with their fathers so they don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t
 have to feel ashamed and guilty about it all the time.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I felt Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s interest perk at the mention 
of a secret society.  Kids find such things fascinating.  So do grown-ups, come 
to that.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93The fathers call themselves the Kings of Antioch, after
 a character in one of Shakespeare\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s plays who sleeps with his
 daughter.  And so their daughters are Princesses of the Order.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I kissed her on her tiny nose again.  \u8220\'93You{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}ll always be a Princess to me,\u8221\'94 I said softly.  \u8220\'93But now 
that we{\lang5129\u8217\'92}ve done it, I could qualify to be a King of Antioch 
and you one of the Order{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Princesses.  How would you feel about
 that?\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She screwed up her lovely face in thought.  \u8220\'93What would
 I have to do?\u8221\'94 she asked doubtfully.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Nothing.\u8221\'94  I laughed.  Hell, I felt good.  \u8220
\'93You\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve just done it.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She gave a big, slow nod as she understood.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But I think there are girls you already know who are Princesses
 of the Order,\u8221\'94 I added encouragingly.  \u8220\'93Girls at school.\u8221
\'94  The more I thought about it the more likely I was that it was through some
 connection at Julie\u8217\'92{\lang2057  school that the Kings of Antioch had come
 to know about me.  \u8220\'93But they can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t let you know who
 they are until they know you are one of them,\u8221\'94 I told her.\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I watched her beautiful eyes widen as she took that on board, then
 narrow as she calculated and speculated.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But they\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re not just girls and their
 fathers at your school,\u8221\'94 I went on.  \u8220\'93I think it}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s girls and their fathers all round the country and all round the world who are 
in the Order, But you understand that it really has to be secret as this,\u8221\'94
 I squeezed my daughter}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s naked breasts against me again.  
\u8220\'93Isn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t allowed anywhere.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She nodded slowly.  \u8220\'93Sounds kind{\lang5129\u8217\'92}a 
fun,\u8221\'94 she said with a mischievous grin.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93To join, though,\u8221\'94 I said, \u8220\'93We\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 ve got to pass some tests.\u8221\'94  I told her what they were and she
 grimaced.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93But if you don\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t want to, that}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s fine,\u8221\'94 I assured her.  \u8220\'93We could always wait 
a couple of years.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She wriggled a little, considering, and then said.  \u8220\'93Nah
.  Let{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s do it.  Who are you going to get to take the {\lang5129
\u8216\'91}photo, though?\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 13.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab I wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t going to get anyone to take the
 {\lang5129\u8216\'91}photo.  No way.  There was an outfit in town from which I 
hired specialist equipment if I needed it to prepare a print run and from them I
 hired a top-of-the-range digital camera with a timer and tripod together with some
 lighting for the weekend.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It was all in the boot of the car when I picked Julie up from school
 and she helped me lug it into the house.  While part of me knew it was nonsense
 another part of me was convinced that if my neighbours were to see what was clearly
 photographic floodlight brightening my bedroom behind closed curtains they would
 know instantly that I was taking pornographic photographs of my own daughter, so
 I set it all up in a back downstairs room which had heavy thermal-lined curtains
 and was not overlooked.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Julie was duly impressed with what amounted to several thousand 
pounds worth of gear as I unpacked it from its boxes and set it up and, although
 I had not told her, she could have no doubt what it was for.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I set up the lights and focussed the camera on a couch which served
 as a spare bed if we had visitors and pinned a white sheet over the existing curtain
 to act as a diffuser.  Julie hovered in the background, fetching and carrying, 
and I explained the technicalities to her as I went.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Trying to get the lights right I turned to her.  \u8220\'93Would
 you just lie on the couch, Princess?  I need to check for shadows.\u8221\'94  I
 heard her move and peered through the view-finder.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Julie was posing on the couch with all the feminine beauty of a 
Renoir nude, quite unaware of it.  Reclining propped on an elbow with one knee forward
 the crisp, sharp pleats of her school dress lay lightly on her thighs and emphasised
 the soft, rounded creaminess of her lower legs while the loose billows of her school
 blouse hinted at the developing loveliness within.  She had never looked cuter, 
or more sexy, and I digitally recorded it on disc.  Slightly anxious eyes looked
 back at me through the viewfinder.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 This was no ordinary family snapshot.  This was going to be a pornographic
 photograph and my little Princess knew it.  I had never shown her any porn but 
some must, surely, have done the rounds of the school, to be sniggered at and whispered
 over.  Julie, surely, had looked at such dog-eared photos with wonderment and confusion
, looking at the faces of the girls allowing men to take photos of them having sex
 with other men while knowing that yet more men would gaze on them in the photos
 and lust.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 How could a twelve-year-old virgin begin to understand how older
 girls and women could do that?  I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t fully understand it
 myself.  Sometimes it was just a matter of money, I supposed - working girls doing
 what they do for a fee just as the ones in the massage parlour did.  Yet not always
.  Perhaps even not often.  The girls in the photographs were just girls willing
 to pose for pornographic photos because...  I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t know why
, and if I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t how could I expect my twelve-year-old daughter
 understand either.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Yet here she was only minutes away from posing for such a photo 
herself, not knowing who was going to look at it to see her little naked body engaged
 in sex, and sex with her own father to boot.  Of course she was going to be feeling
 a little anxious and uneasy.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Princess,\u8221\'94 I said softly, peering at her over 
the top of the camera.  \u8220\'93If you want we can leave it.  It doesn\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t really matter.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She frowned back at me.  \u8220\'93But you want to, don{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t you?\u8221\'94 \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yes,\u8221\'94 I admitted.  \u8220\'93I do.  I\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 d like you to meet other girls who are doing what you are doing, because
  I think it would be good for you.  But if you}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re uncomfortable
 doing this, we can leave it for a while.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The frown turned stubborn.  \u8220\'93No.  You{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}ve got everything here.  Let{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s do it now.\u8221\'94  She could
 be an obdurate little minx. \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93OK.  Before or after dinner?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Before.  Then you can ring out for a pizza.\u8221\'94{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 If she wanted a pizza as a reward for having sex with me in front
 of a camera, she could have a pizza.  She could have a damn van full of pizzas.
\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93It\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s a deal,\u8221\'94 I said a little
 gruffly.  \u8220\'93You get ready and I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll be back in a minute
.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I left the room and made sure every outside door to the house was
 locked and bolted and every window shut tight.  Then I entered the room again.  
Julie was reclining on the couch stark naked, her breasts small but proud, her little
 tuft of black hair like an arrow at the closed join of her legs pointing at lay
 what lay hidden between them..\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I took off my own clothes and crossed to perch on the couch next
 to her.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93We need a pose that shows both our faces,\u8221\'94 I said
, feeling uncomfortable.  \u8220\'93And also that I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m..  well
.... you know.\u8221\'94  I couldn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t say that the camera also
 had to see that my prick was inside her but she nodded her understanding.  On the
 Order}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s web-site I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d seen several photos
 that met this requirement and knew what I wanted.  \u8220\'93We}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
ll practice it first, then I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll set the camera.\u8221\'94\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I wormed around behind her and pulled her against me with her back
 to my chest and her bottom in my lap.  Getting the idea she spread her legs either
 side of my thighs.  Her hand groped between them, located my prick and guided it
 against her.  She wriggled her hips and I felt myself ease into her dry vagina 
perhaps two inches.  I peered over her shoulder and tried to adopt a camera{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s eye view even as my spine tingled to the sensation of my daughter{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s body embracing my prick.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93How\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s that?\u8221\'94 Julie asked in
 a small voice.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I think that\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s perfect,\u8221\'94 I
 agreed.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I popped my penis out of her tight vagina like a cork from a wine
 bottle, disentangled my legs from hers and climbed off the couch.  At the camera
 I set the first delay for 20 seconds and then 10 exposures at 5 second intervals
, which I knew would be likely to fill the floppy.  Triggering it I began counting
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93One....two...three...four...five...,\u8221\'94 I was back
 at the couch, climbing over my nude daughter.  \u8220\'93Six...seven...eight...
nine...ten...\u8221\'94  Her warm, smooth back was against my chest with her soft
 buttocks nestling back against my thighs.  \u8220\'93Eleven...twelve...thirteen
...\u8221\'94  Her upper leg hooked back over mine and the lower slipped beneath
 me as I pushed myself forward between them.   \u8220\'93Fourteen...fifteen...sixteen
...\u8221\'94  Her hand reached down between them, took my prick in her fingers 
and aimed it at her vagina.  \u8220\'93Seventeen...eighteen... nineteen...\u8221
\'94   I popped back into her, wilting as the soft glove of her cunt stroked the
 bulge of my penis.  \u8220\'93Twenty...twentyone...twentytwo...\u8221\'94  Damn
.  What had I done wrong?  Set it for minutes instead of seconds?  With the tight
 warm clasp of my daughter\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s vagina gently squeezing my prickhead
 it was hard to think.  \u8220\'93Twentythree...twentyfour....Hell!\u8221\'94\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Bugger...two...three...four...\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}
}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Say \u8216\'91{\lang2057 cheese}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 , 
Princess,\u8221\'94 I urged, laying my face alongside hers and trying to smile at
 the camera as I hooked my hips round and penetrated her a further inch.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Cheeeeeese,\u8221\'94 my little princess trilled obediently
 and I thought to take my hands off her tiny breasts, where I had been holding her
, so that the camera could see them..{\lang2057\par}}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I couldn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t help shafting her.  It just felt 
too good.  I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d lost count of the flashes and didn{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}t care any more, anyway.  I rolled onto my back with my daughter facing up 
on top of me, her thighs spread wide to either side of mine, and jammed my prick
 in and out of her as the fire flared in my prickhead until my ejaculation hosed
 into her.  Then I could only lay puffing and helpless beneath her.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\jcompress\sl240\slmult1\fi282\tx0\tx720\tx1440\tx2160
\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Oh, I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m sorry, Honey,\u8221\'94 I apologised
.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93It\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s OK,\u8221\'94 she replied, sounding
 surprised.  \u8220\'93Have we finished?\u8221\'94  My prick pulsed in her but it
 was just firing the dregs of my semen into her womb.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yeah.  I think so,\u8221\'94 I said.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Flash.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Damn.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It was the last, though, and when that became obvious Julie rolled
 gently off me, my prick sliding greasily out of her.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Got a tissue, dad?\u8221\'94 she asked, standing beside
 the couch and peering down at the mess between her thighs.  I could see white globs
 of my semen oozing from between her vaginal lips.{\lang2057\par}}

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\fs24\kerning28 I hadn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t.  I had several thousand pounds worth
 of hi-tech digital gear, complete with cloths and cleansers but there wasn{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}t a tissue in the room.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Julie scurried naked upstairs to the shower, my semen sliding down
 the insides of her legs like soft white slugs and I flogged my sated body into 
action.  I wiped my prick on my underpants and dressed, switched off the camera 
and turned off the lamps.  Then I picked up the {\lang5129\u8216\'91}phone and ordered
 my daughter the best, most expensive pizza money can buy.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Ninety minutes later, with the debris of the meal spread over the
 table, I called up my graphics manipulation program, slipped the floppy from the
 camera into the PC{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s slot and Julie and I reviewed the photos
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I was appalled.  Her tiny, neat, young white body crucified against
 my flabby, middle-aged one looked so small, vulnerable and helpless.   My stiff
 prick between her legs looked so big and brutal, spreading her little cunt-lips
 wide and forcing its way into her like a torturers{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s truncheon
.  In the first shots, too, I was glowering and looking angrily at the lens while
 in the later ones, when I was on my back, my face was obscured by the fall of Julie
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s hair.  In all of them, though, my little girl{\lang5129\u8217
\'92}s face was serene with the slight, self-contained, enigmatic smile of the Mona
 Lisa.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Number three, I think,\u8221\'94 she announced.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She was right.  Although I still had a hand cupping one of her little
 breasts I was at least looking at the camera and leering if not smiling, and my
 prick half-buried in her cunt was plain to see.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Number three it is, then,\u8221\'94 I agreed.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 14.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I ran the advert in the local paper for three consecutive nights
 the following week.  Photo number three I added to my lap-top{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s hard-drive as an image called {\lang5129\u8216\'91}Rose{\lang5129\u8217\'92} 
in a sizeable collection of jpg clipart images.  The images on the floppy I ran 
through an encryption program and stored on another floppy which I hid very very
 securely.  The original floppy I burned.  I then defragmented the hard-drive on
 my PC and DoD cleaned the free-space.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The advert was a {\lang5129\u8216\'91}wanted{\lang5129\u8217\'92
} for a set of Baxter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Children{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s Encyclopaedia
, which Google had never heard of, with a {\lang5129\u8216\'91}phone number which
 was unobtainable when I tried it.  So I waited.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I kept the lap-top with me at my office and had it on the back-seat
 of my car when I waited for Julie outside her school, where it seemed to scream
 for attention like a murder-victim{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s decapitated head.  Anyone
 stealing it and taking the trouble to wade through 200Mb of clipart images would
 possess something I would give a very great deal indeed to get back.  In the hands
 of the police it was worth five years in jail.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Nothing happened.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Then on the Friday evening just as Julie was settling down to do
 her homework, the door-bell rang. \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 It rings quite often.  Sometimes it is girl-friends of Julie{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s and they disappear upstairs to her now largely unused bedroom to play
 bad music loudly and do what ever else it is that adolescent girls do in each other
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s bedrooms.  Sometimes it is the neighbours wanting to borrow
 half-a-cup of olive oil or search our garage for their missing cat.  Often it is
 someone selling brushes, cosmetics or religion.  This time it was a stunning attractive
, trendily dressed girl in her mid-twenties.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hello, Mr. Walker,\u8221\'94 she said into my stunned surprise
.  \u8220\'93You wanted a set of Baxter\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s Children}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s Encyclopaedia, I believe?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes,\u8221\'94 I stammered as my mind caught up with
 events.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Can I come in?\u8221\'94 she asked mildly.{\lang2057\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94  I let her in.  Beyond her on the road
 I saw a taxi parked, engine running.  Inside the hallway she turned to me.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93My name is Toni.  I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m a Princess of
 Antioch.  Is Julie home?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Does she know why I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve come?\u8221\'94
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93She was pointed out to me outside her school, so I don\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 t need to meet her.  But I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d like to.  She might
 feel better about it if she knew who had seen the photo.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94  I led her to the dining room where 
Julie, her ears bristling with curiosity, sat surrounded by books.{\lang2057\par
}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Princess, this is Toni.  She\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s a Princess
.  Of Antioch,\u8221\'94 I added meaningfully.  My daughter}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s eyes went wide.  \u8220\'93She}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s come to see the }\u8216\'91
{\lang2057 photo.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Our visitor slipped past me into the room.  \u8220\'93Hello Julie
,\u8221\'94 she said cheerful.  \u8220\'93We{\lang5129\u8217\'92}re lucky girls, 
you and I.\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I watched the two for a moment while my mind tried to work out what
 it was supposed to be doing and then remembered.  I left them to it while I retrieved
 my lap-top from its nook in my den, booted it up and opened {\lang5129\u8216\'91
}Rose.jpg{\lang5129\u8217\'92} onto the screen.  Then I carried it back into the
 dining room and set it on the table before the two girls, who were discussing the
 Colorado River which was part of Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s homework\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Toni looked at it for a long three seconds and then up into my face
 with a smile, although I could not smile back.  This stunner had just seen me with
 my prick half-way up my own daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s cunt.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93That\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s fine, Mr.  Walker,\u8221\'94
 she said.  \u8220\'93I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve seen enough.  You}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
ll be contacted again soon for the second part of the initiation.  That was explained
 to you?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 She turned to Julie.  \u8220\'93Don{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t worry 
about it,\u8221\'94 she told my daughter softly.  \u8220\'93You{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}ll find it easier than you might think.\u8221\'94  She turned back to me expectantly
 and I led her back to the front door and opened it up for her.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Thank you,\u8221\'94 she said softly.  \u8220\'93I hope
 I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll get the opportunity to meet Julie again.  She}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s a great kid.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Er, yes,\u8221\'94 I agreed.  She walked beautifully back
 down the garden path to the taxi.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Cool,\u8221\'94 Julie breathed in admiration from behind
 me.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 15.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab The summons came the following Wednesday, delivered to my daughter
 who passed it onto me as I was disentangling us from the traffic outside out school
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Dad, we\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve been invited to afternoon
 tea with Jodie Jamieson and her dad next Sunday, if we}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re 
free.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 After a moment{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s shock I had to collect myself
 and concentrate on the traffic.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Jodie Jamieson?  Who\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s her dad, Princess
?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93He\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s the builder.  Jamieson and Co.
\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I went hot and then cold.  I knew Adrian Jamieson enough to be on
 first name terms with him after we had both done a couple of years on a local business
 development forum.  So he was screwing his daughter?  No, his daughters - for I
 seemed to remember he{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d told me he had two, the elder at University
 and one at Julie{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s school.  He{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d seemed
 the big, bluff, bulldozing type who did not suffer fools or bureaucrats gladly 
but was friendly enough while you were on his side.  And he was a King of Antioch
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Do I know Jodie?\u8221\'94 I asked.  My princess wrinkled
 her nose at what she obviously thought was a silly question.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Shouldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t think so.  She}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 s a year ahead of me.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 So Adrian Jamieson{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s daughter was thirteen, 
perhaps fourteen.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93So what, er, what do you think of it, Princess?  Do you
 want to go?\u8221\'94  I assumed she knew what was behind the summons.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Jodie\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s OK,\u8221\'94 she admitted 
slowly.  \u8220\'93She}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s got some cool mates.  If they}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 re princesses too....\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93You know it doesn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t automatically follow
,\u8221\'94 I warned her.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Yeah.  But Jodie obviously knows about us and she\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 s been friendly the last couple of days, and that}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s been kind of fun.  I guess we could go,\u8221\'94 she offered the way she does
 when I ask her if she wants me to make a dental appointment for a check-up she}
\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s overdue for.  \u8220\'93You want to, don}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
t you?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I drew a deep breath.  \u8220\'93Yes, Princess,\u8221\'94 I conceded
.  In fact knowing what we now knew about the Jamiesons{\lang5129\u8217\'92} and
 they knew about us I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t really think we had a choice and
 I think Julie saw that too.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93OK.   I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ll let Jodie know we}\u8217
\'92{\lang2057 ll come,\u8221\'94 my daughter said decisively.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I hope we do, I thought privately.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 16.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28\tab That Sunday at three I drove up the drive to the Jamiesons{\lang5129
\u8217\'92} mini-mansion in an acre or two on the edge of town.  Adrian Jamieson
 himself opened the door in its mock-Georgian portico to us.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hello again, Russell,\u8221\'94 he said cheerfully.  \u8220
\'93This must be Julie.\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hello, Mr.  Jamieson,\u8221\'94 my daughter said politely
 to the man who was shortly going to watch her having sex with her father.  Jamieson
 turned to me.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93This is my daughter, Jodie.\u8221\'94  {\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Jodie was a year or so older than Julie at an age when a year makes
 a big difference, taller, rounder and assured.  She stepped forward from her father
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s shoulder and offered her hand.  It seemed small in mine as
 I shook it.  She was not as pretty as Julie in my opinion but I assumed her father
 thought otherwise.  Both girls were in dresses.  I had left what she would wear
 up to Julie and she looked very pretty and sexy, as did the other girl.  I suppose
 they{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d both thought ahead.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Our host ushered us in and through to a room at the back of the 
house with french windows out onto a patio with a pool beyond and a sizeable lawn
 beyond that, all secluded by a tall, neatly-clipped hedge.  In the room a table
 bore plates of sandwiches and cakes, far more than the four of us could possibly
 eat, some wine-bottles sweating in coolers and a coffee percolator lazily popping
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Drink?\u8221\'94 Jamieson asked.  I took a glass of chilled
 white wine and so did Julie.  Only a month before I would have been unhappy at 
the sight but now I knew she could no longer be denied it.  Perhaps Virgins shouldn
\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t drink wine, but Princesses could.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Jane is away at University,\u8221\'94 Jamieson explained
, \u8220\'93And my wife has taken the youngest to visit her mother for the afternoon
.\u8221\'94  I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d learned from Julie that Jamieson was divorced
 from his daughter}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s mother and had remarried, with a young
 son by that marriage.  Did his wife know what he did with her step-daughters, I
 wondered?\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I apologise for the necessity of this,\u8221\'94 he went
 on.  \u8220\'93I understand you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve cleared the first hurdle
 and personally I would be happy with that, but I am going to be introducing you
 to other Kings and their Princesses, and I am responsible to them for ensuring 
that you have undergone the same test they did.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I nodded.  I{\lang5129\u8217\'92}d taken up the challenge the King
 on the car drive had given me and not thought of a better way.  I hoped Julie agreed
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Shall we wait until after we\u8217\'92{\lang2057 ve had
 something,\u8221\'94 Jamieson waved his hand regally at the table, \u8220\'93Or
 get it done and eat afterwards?\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Let\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s get it done,\u8221\'94 I said
 quickly, guessing this is what my daughter would want.  Jamieson nodded.  \u8220
\'93Have you any more questions, doubts?\u8221\'94 he said softly.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had one.  \u8220\'93That web page,\u8221\'94 I asked.  \u8220\'93
What{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s that about?\u8221\'94  I saw Julie shoot me a puzzled
 look for I had not told her about that.  \u8220\'93It{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s not
 compulsory, is it?\u8221\'94\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93No,\u8221\'94 Jamieson laughed, but looked a little embarrassed
.  \u8220\'93In fact that was only a sample, a site created specially for you.  
The Kings\u8217\'92{\lang2057  actual site is much bigger, but it wouldn}\u8217\'92
{\lang2057 t have done for you to stumble across an album of someone you know, would
 it?  \par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93The main site follows the same rules, password changed 
weekly, and each one is  individually computer generated and e-mailed out.  That
 way if there is any breach of security it can be traced back to source.  And I 
wouldn\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t like to be in the shoes of whoever had misused their
 password.\u8221\'94  He grimaced.  \u8220\'93But no, it}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s 
not compulsory.  A lot of Kings, though, are proud of their Princesses and would
 love to shout their love from the rooftops.  They can}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t, of
 course, so the Web is the next best thing.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 My Mr.  Hyde understood that.  He wanted the world to know how strong
 the love was between my darling little daughter and I.  My Dr. Jekyll was still
 appalled that we were going to demonstrate it before even these two.  \par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Do I have you to thank for, er, bringing me to the attention
 of the Order?\u8221\'94 I asked.  When it had first contacted me I had wanted to
 break the neck of the person who thought me capable of committing incest with my
 daughter.  Now I had committed incest with my daughter and it had been beautiful
, perhaps the most wonderful experience of my life but my Dr.  Jekyll still hadn
\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t quite come to terms with it and the question came out rather
 colder than I would have wished.  Jamieson chewed his lips for a moment, then shook
 his head.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93No,\u8221\'94 he said.  \u8220\'93Fact is, in about an 
hour we\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re going to be joined by three other Kings with their
 Princesses, two of whom you or your daughter knows.  I believe it was one of those
 two couples but, well, it}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s considered bad form to worry about
 that.\u8221\'94\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I believed him, and wondered who these others were.  I{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}d find out soon enough.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93In case you\u8217\'92{\lang2057 re worried about hidden
 cameras and suchlike, there are none but you can choose where to do it.  There 
are three rooms upstairs, there}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s a games room with a snooker
 table in the basement, the pool isn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t overlooked or there}
\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s the summer-house.\u8221\'94  Jamieson said.  I could see 
the last mentioned at across the lawn, a fancy structure of brick and white wood
 the size of a small bungalow.  I}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d had dreams of a property
 like this when I had first gone into business, before Julie}\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s mother died.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93I\u8217\'92{\lang2057 m happy with wherever,\u8221\'94 
I said.  The possibility that Julie and I were going to be secretly filmed having
 sex had crossed my mind, like a herd of stampeding elephants, but I had a feeling
 that if Jamieson was going to he}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 d be able to wherever I chose
.  I just had to hope he wasn}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 t going to.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Julie?\u8221\'94 he asked.  My little girl blushed prettily
 and said, \u8220\'93The games room?\u8221\'94{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93The games room it is,\u8221\'94 Jamieson said.  \u8220\'93
Follow us.\u8221\'94  He slipped his arm around his daughter\u8217\'92{\lang2057
s waist and led the way back into the house.  I took Julie}\u8217\'92{\lang2057 s
 hand and we followed.\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 The Jamieson{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s games room underlay a sizeable
 part of the house.  A full-size snooker table stood under a thick dust sheet in
 the middle of the room and an extensive personal gym occupied one corner, opposite
 a sizeable, well-stocked bar.  A raised sauna bubbled gently under thermal covers
 in a third and the fourth corner had a small stage angled across it.  Folding doors
 in one wall told me that everything on the shining parquet floor could be stored
 away leaving a small clear area of dancing.  A pine door alongside the storage 
area containing a small dark window at face height I guessed gave access to a sauna
.  I gave it a close look but could see no camera lens the other side of it, although
 that would have been the obvious place to set up a hidden camera.  Perhaps too 
obvious.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Wow, cool,\u8221\'94 said my daughter appreciatively.  
I felt sad that I had not been able to provide the same facilities for her.{\lang2057
\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Jamieson led his daughter to the bar, drew her into his arms and
 gave her a very unfatherly kiss and she responded by pressing herself against him
.  I led Julie over to the snooker table as it was the obvious place.  She was already
 unbuttoning her dress.  We had talked about this on the way over and agreed to 
make it quick and clinical.  Julie would show that I wasn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t 
beating her into letting me have sex with her, or didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92}t resent
 me for forcing it on her, by being her usual bright-eyed affectionate self all 
the rest of the time.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 At the bar Jodie Jamieson slipped to her knees, her father{\lang5129
\u8217\'92}s fly already open.  She pulled his prick out and took it into her mouth
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I had promised my daughter that I would introduce her to sex slowly
, Oral sex was something I had left to come in time and I didn{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}t even know if she was aware of it.  As she watched her schoolfriend take her father
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s penis in her mouth, I saw her eyes open wide with surprise
 and then she turned to me.  I stopped her saying anything with a kiss.  \u8220\'93
In good time, Princess,\u8221\'94 I breathed.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Her dress was unbuttoned and I brushed it from her shoulders.  It
 slipped to the ground.  She was naked beneath it.  She had thought ahead.  I lifted
 her onto the edge of the snooker table with ease, she was so light.  With gentle
 hands I pushed her back onto the green cloth, her legs dangling.  Out of the corner
 of my eye I watched Jodie Jamieson moving her head back and forth on her father
{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick.  Adrian Jamieson was watching me, his face slightly
 glazed by the immensity of the pleasure his daughter was giving him.  Parting my
 own daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs with gentle hands I stepped between them
 and lowered my face to her thighs.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Her new fine, dark, tightly-curled hair was bushed around her cleft
 but beginning to spread outwards into the cup of her legs and I kissed it gently
.  Then with my tongue I located her valley and burrowed down it, tasting the little
 folds and creases of her sex.  I found the tiny bud of her clitoris and toyed with
 it, feeling her response in her thighs against my cheeks, while over the slight
 furry mound before me I watched Jodie Jamieson undo her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s trousers and slide them down his legs.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I burrowed lower with my tongue in my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92
}s genitals, parting her soft vaginal lips with it and exploring the sweet entrance
 to her body, my nose buried in her brand-new pubic hair inhaling the musty, exciting
 lure of her sex.  Beside us our host settled onto a low stool, his prick sticking
 rod-like out of his lap while his daughter lifted her dress to her waist.  Like
 my daughter she had prepared for this moment and was wearing no knickers.  I worked
 my tongue into my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s vagina, drinking her sex-sweat
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Jodie Jamieson straddled her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s legs and
 lowered herself onto his penis.  I watched it disappear slowly into her body as
 she worked her hips minutely, wriggling herself down onto it until she settled 
into his lap.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 Incest.  Under-age sex, too.  Yet the double criminalisation of 
the act I was watching was a farce.  There was no abuse in this.  The fourteen-year
-old girl was pleasuring herself and her father because she chose to.  Because she
 wanted to.  Sure there are girls who need protection from thuggish fathers who 
abuse them by forcing sex on them, but the crime should be the abuse, not the act
.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I rose from my daughter{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s sex, undoing my trousers
 and freeing my prick.  Julie had been watching her schoolfriend bob slowly up and
 down, shafting herself on her father{\lang5129\u8217\'92}s prick, but as I stepped
 again between her legs she turned to face me and gave me a smile.\par}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang5129
\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Hold tight, Princess.  Here we go,\u8221\'94 I promised
 her.  As the tip of my prick burrowed into her cleft, seeking her vagina, she closed
 her eyes and that Mona Lisa smile appeared on her face.{\lang2057\par}}

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\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\tx9360{\f0\lang2057
\fs24\kerning28 I found the entrance to her body and pressed myself in.  She was
 still tight but I popped through and eased forward, up into her.  My hair pressed
 against hers and I was all the way into her, the head of my prick pressing into
 the angle of her cervix.  Shudders of warm delight wracked me and my darling released
 her breath with a sigh.\par}

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\fs24\kerning28\u8220\'93Welcome to Antioch,\u8221\'94 I heard Adrian Jamieson breath
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\fs24\kerning28 I had claimed my Kingdom and it was not the body of the girl spreadeagled
 before me, barely a woman with her private, enigmatic smile framed by her dark 
boyish hair, her narrow shoulders and half-breasts, for one day she would wish to
 give that kingdom to another or others and I could only hope that she would still
 permit me to visit it as and when she chose.  No, my Kingdom was no more nor less
 than her consent to what we were doing, to the pleasure we were giving each other
, to the joy we were sharing. That was my Kingdom, which I shared with the King 
of Antioch and a million other fathers who saw through the lie of the religious 
fanatics and the social manipulators and found the courage to ask their daughters
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\fs24\kerning28 I felt my ejaculation stir and begin its ecstatic, orgasmic journey
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