Chapter SixMackinaw had knocked Melissa out using the same chloroform he'd used on Megan, but it had taken him longer to apply it over her nose and mouth than it had with the housekeeper. She had put up a spirited fight. He had hit her twice. The first blow split her lip and the second, to the solar plexus, doubled her up enough for the handkerchief. He then dragged her from the bedroom and down the stairs by her arms. As she was dragged over the demolished door of her bedroom she grazed her right leg from just below the knee almost to her ankle. It did not start to bleed until she was thrown into the side door of the blue Transit, when it was caught again and then it bled profusely up to the time Mackinaw made his first stop in a large carpark adjoining a public house about a mile from th
