Disclaimer: All though inspired by a real story, this is fiction.
It is a story-taking place in a horrible society where money and
money only makes the world going round. Disgusting events
according to Danish standard are described and I would wish that
we could save the world back from Denmark, so people did not need
to go trough such a life, but we can only watch the unjust to
happen. The solution has to come from the government on the
Philippines. I have written this story in response to a
TV-program, where those people who exploit those poor girls
portrayed like angels.

Synopsis: A young innocent woman gets a rollercoaster ride kind
of life out of her control.

A sad, depressed and bittersweet story.

1) A peaceful childhood

It was the year 1977, when a little girl was born on a remote
island about 150 kilometres from Manila. Her parents lived of the
sea and electrical power, school etc. was not at hand. Linda, as
the girl was name lived the first 14 years of her life on the
island with her sisters. She did not learn to read. Every
Saturday the village went to a neighbour, which had a radio
running on batteries, where they were informed about what went
about in the world outside. The island was her world; she did not
know anything of the world outside.

Her older sisters all left their homes when they were 14. It was
custom because there was no kind of future living on the island.
Fishing could not support more than those people, which already
lived on the Island. Some weeks, then her father did not catch
anything, they had to live of the few things, and they could grow
on the Island.

When she was 14, her parents called her and told her that one of
her uncles had a job for her. It was not quite a real uncle, but
a former angler, which had established himself with a bar at the
nearby city on the mainland. Linda was crying but she knew in her
heart that her parents would not have let her go, if they could
have provided for her themselves.

Her "uncle" Bill came for her. He seems to be a relaxed elderly
man of about 50 years. On the verge of tears, she parted with her
parents hoping that some day she could return to the Island.
Little did she know that her all too short childhood would become
the happiest years of her life.


2) Uncle Bill's bar and Linda's new uniform.

When she arrived at her new living place, she was shown where to
sleep. A little chamber, she had to share with another girl on
her own age. After a while, Bill called her to his office.

When she arrived, two other men also were in the office.

"Undress!" Bill's voice was to firm that she did not dare to
argue with him. She blushed when she slowly took off all her
clothes.

When she was naked, one of the men took out a tape measure and
noted the size of her waistline. Then he took some kind of steel
band and put it around her waist. A part of steel thing went
trough her legs and the man connected it on her back. It was a
little tight but not unbearable. Then he took padlock and she
heard a click when it closed.

"This is your chastity belt. Now my investment is preserved."
Uncle Bill seemed to be in a cheerful mind. "Try on your
uniform!"

Linda took the dress shown to her and tried to dress. It looked
unfamiliar to her but it was a French maid uniform. However, the
underwear should be put on first and she did not know the concept
of a corset. It could be laced on the back and one of the men
offered his help to her.

"Place your hands on the table." Linda did as he told her, but
when he pulled the laces, she had to let go.

"I can not breathe! Stop!"

"You have to do as we tell." Bill and the other man took her
hands and cuffed them to a pair of leather cuffs. The cuffs were
connected to a rope hanging from the ceiling and they hoisted her
body of the ground. Then the connected two other cuffs to her
legs. Those two cuffs were connected to the ground. They
continued to pull the rope until her body was stretched entirely
out.

The first man continued his work of lacing her corset. Linda
protested, shouted and groaned, but he did not stop and at some
point, she was only able to grunt when he pulled the laces.

Bill commanded the man to stop. "We have to wait for the fabric
to adjust before we continue. Go and get some cups of coffee."

Linda hanged sobbing in her arms. They were so sore and she felt
like being cut in half.

When the men had finished their coffee, they continued to lace
her corset. Linda was on the verge of losing consciousness and
grunted every time they pulled. Finally, they were satisfied and
lowered her to the ground. Then she painfully took the rest of
the uniform on.

"Here. Wipe those tears away. Get one of the girls. We have to
apply some makeup and train her to walk." Another older girl came
in and Bill commanded her to take Linda out in the bar and train
her to walk.


3) Training and first day on work.

Samantha as the other girl was named, gave her some shoes to
wear.

Linda tried to take them on, but she could only stand up strait
because of the rigid corset. Samantha helped her and had to
support her when she took her first step. Linda had never worn
high-heels and did almost fall, whenever she tried to take a
step. Samantha helped her and after a half hour she could walk
almost normal.

Next Samantha gave her a tray with plastic service on. Of course,
Linda dropped the service the first times she tried to handle it.
However, she practiced and real glasses and plates replaced the
plastic service.

Finally, Samantha told her to sit on a chair. It hurt in her
stomach when she sat down and she at once straitened her back.
Samantha applied lipstick and took care of her hair. When Linda
saw her self in the mirror, she almost could not believe what she
saw.

In the evening, the bar opened. Linda's job was to take order
from the customers and wash the dishes. Samantha told her that
there were two kinds of employees beside Bill. The entertainment
girls and the waitresses. She would graduate to entertainment
girl when Bill could get the right price for her.

Linda worked hard. Once when she was serving a customer his
drink, his hand slipped up under her skirt, but he pulled his
hands back, when he felt the steel. "Bill always thinks of
everything." he remarked. Linda blushed of shame.

Linda was tired. She had been travelling all day and fell almost
at sleep around 10. Bill noticed that ordered her to the kitchen.
He followed her and took a heavy rubber apron and told her to
wear it and some heavy rubber gloves too. Then she was ordered to
take care of the dishes for the rest of the evening.

Around three in the morning she finally and exhausted was
followed to bed by Bill. When they came to her room, he helped
her to undress from her uniform, but the corset had to remain on.
In order to avoid her escaping from the place he gave her a
leather collar on which were connected to the wall by a chain.
Her hands were put inside some leather gloves to she could not
fiddle with her laces. She also got a leather belt on where the
gloves were hooked on some D-rings in the side. Linda fell asleep
almost at once.


4) A violent customer.

The days went by and the daily routine was almost the same.

About noon, she woke. When one of the older girls came to the
rooms to check on them once an hour, she was helped to the
toilet, where she made her business. Only once a week she got the
chastity belt off so she could get a bath. Bill and some of the
men watched her very carefully when it was time. An hour later,
she was in her uniform, preparing the bar for the customers.

When the bar opened, she was in the bar until midnight, where she
moved to the kitchen to clean up and help where help was needed.

About three, she went to bed. After some months, she no longer
was cuffed and collared. She had adjusted to her new life. It was
hard but it was a living.

One night however, she experienced a nightmare. Just before she
was going to bed, all the garbage stood by the door and waited to
be taken out. Normally Bill helped her, but he was busy because
there were some sailors in town, so Linda decided to take the
garbage out by her self.

When she was almost finished, a pair of hands grabbed her from
the back. It was a drunken sailor. He threw her over a bench and
unbuttoned his trousers. Then he pulled her skirt up and
discovered the chastity belt. "What the fuck? You little tart! I
am going to strangle you instead."

Then she heard a knock. The sailor fell to the ground. It was
Bill with a baton. He gave the sailor a couple of kicks in his
stomach and ordered Linda inside. A half hour later, he returned
remarking something about a man talking with the fishes. Linda
was told to go the bed at once.

The next day Bill called her to his office. When she sat in the
chair, Bill explained that she never must leave the bar without
guard because she would be an easy target. "I have told you that
before and therefore you will be punished. Undress!"

All her clothes even the belt came off. Then he ordered her to
take the leather cuffs on and to bend over a table in the corner.
Her cuffs were secured to the table so her behind were up in the
air. "I am so sorry to do this to you, but our rules are for your
own safety. I am only going to spank you with this soft latex
whip, so you do not get wounds. It would decrease the value of my
investment."

Then he whipped her behind. Linda cried out every time he hit
her. Her parents never disciplined her. She had never experienced
such a pain. Finally, he was done and hugged her to comfort her.
"Never let me down again!" She promised.


5) Return of Investment (ROI)

As the months went by, Linda's body developed and she noticed
that more than often Bill would discuss her with some of the
customers. One morning Bill called for her, when she was finished
on the toilet and about to dress. As she went into his office,
she noticed the two men from her first day at Bill's place.

One of the men released her laces. Then her chastity belt went
off. Linda felt it odd. She had worn the corset for almost two
years. Her back needed support and she was relieved when he gave
her a red PVC corset. Once more, she was hoisted in the cuffs and
prepared to be laced. "Your old corset was 18 inches. The new
corset is 16 inches. Do you want something to bit on when he
adjust it."

Linda nodded and they putted a bit gag in her mouth. Then the man
began to work on her. Several time she blackened and Bill used
smelling salt to get her back again. When they lowered her and
showed her the result in a large mirror. Her body was almost
bizarre. Her waist was formed like an hourglass and her small
breast had been pushed up and together making them look bigger.

They gave her a golden gown and a read PVC collar on. Then they
went to the bar. On the stage, there was a golden cage. Next to
the cage, the pole was where the entertainment girls used to
dance around. Samantha came and taught her how to dance and show
the most of her. Linda blushed when she told her to put her
behind in the air because she did not have trousers on.

Linda was a quick learner and when the bar opened, she got to
dance. At midnight, John led her to the cage and when he had shut
the door, he took the microphone. "May I have your attention? In
the golden cage, a little bird is waiting to sing in private for
the highest bidder. May I have an offer?"

A lot of men raised their arms and numbers flew in the air. It
took 20 minutes before a short European man won. He got the key
to the cage from Bill and they went upstairs. He went to one of
the rooms and Linda had to follow because Bill had seen to that
there was a chain to her collar, the man could hold on to.

Inside the room, he undressed and Linda was a little shocked by
his pale body. He noticed her reaction and tried to relax her.

"Relax! My name is Ib Colding and I am only a Danish tourist out
for some fun. I need you to comfort me. Back home people
disagreeing with my political view had thrown rocks at my house,
the bank would not loan my money and every time I visit the local
supermarket, the employees complained about the sight of my body,
so I decided to travel around the world. Normally I prefer
Japanese girls, but you could do."

He smelled so bad. Linda remembered and story a visitor to the
island told the children. The name of the story was "The
snow-queen" by a famous Danish author. Perhaps it was too cold in
Denmark to take a bath. Linda took her dress off when he told
her. She climbed in to the bed and faced the wall resting on her
elbows and knees and he commanded her. The tourist positioned him
self behind her. Suddenly she felt a pain. "Auuuuwww".

He was going to impale her. That was how she felt it. No
foreplay, just pressure. She was crying and he continued to pump
her. Slowly his penis worked its way up inside her dry love
canal. "Say my name while we make love." But Linda did not get
the time to say his name more than once. Ib came with a grunt
while he trusted his penis violent all the way in. He pulled out
at once and gave her an extra 100$ Then he left.

Linda cried when Samantha entered the room. She hugged Linda and
tried to comfort her by assuring her that not all men were like
that. But Linda's world had turned out to be a lie and Samantha
was just adding to that fact.

Linda was how ever a quick learner and she learned how to
mentally disconnect from her body while sweating and smelling
elderly men did have a go at her.


6) The Dutch manager

One night when she was dancing at the pole, a handsome young man
in his late twenties came in the bar. Later when her dance was
over, she approached him trying to get him as a costumer. It
would be a change from the elderly men.

They got to talk and he told her, that he was a co-owner of a
growing internet company. Linda did not know what the internet
was. She could not even read. However, Svend, as the manager was
called, seemed to be a nice person. During the evening, he bought
her drinks and at some point, when Bill came by to make thing
happen, he also got a drink, which seems to calm him down. When
the bar closed, Linda had survived a day without ending up in bed
with someone and that was quite remarkable.

The next day when the bar was getting ready to open, the Dutch
manager came by and demanded to tall to Bill. When he left Bill's
office, he told her that she now was his property and he had
bought her for 200$. She packed her few belongings and went with
the manager.

They drove in his car some hours and then they ended up at a
small house, where he told her, she was going to live as his
mistress and perhaps wife one day.

Linda thought she was in heaven. Comparing the standards she had
been used to, this was unbelievable. In the sleeping room, there
was a large soft bed. "You need some clothes. I would arrange for
a colleague from the internet business to come by with some
clothes. Then he unlaced her and ordered her to take a bath.

Later in the afternoon, she had been given a complete wardrobe.
He showed her round in the house. When he discovered that she
could not cook and read, he arranged a servant to come.

He ordered some takeaway and she had a fine dinner. When it was
time to go to bed, he told her to wait. "I have something from my
company, you should try first. It is a new dress from Germany,
which is a country in Europe."

She was surprised when she saw the dress. It was made of leather
and had two leather cuffs at each side connected to a corset with
straps instead of laces. When he had dressed her and she was
immobilized, he fastened a leather strap, which went between her
legs. He put a posture collar around her neck, which made it
impossible to lower her head. She had to look up and it was
difficult for her to breathe.

He made her lie down on her back and the he took a vibrator and
began to massage her softly on her clit. It was a funny feeling.
Normally she had always connected sex to a swift pain but this
was different. She felt pleasure and it made her ashamed.
However, she was at his mercy and finally she caved in to her
body and had her first orgasm.

"When I have trained you properly, you would earn the right to my
member, not sooner."

Linda felt asleep in her restraint wondering what kind of
business Svend owned.


7) The mother in law

Linda lived at Svend's place for the next months. Sometime he was
away on business trips for weeks. Linda soon discovered that the
golden cage, she was placed in at Bill's place had been replaced
by a larger cage. At 17 of age, she could not read books and
understand the funny languages at on the satellite canals in the
television.

When he returned home, he always seems to have a new kind of
kinky toy to test on her. A question, which had bothered her for
some time, she finally got her self to ask one morning.

"What kind of business do you own?"

"It is an adult website with interactive entertainment. It is
called >>cool diamantes<<. I am quiet regarded a master of java
programming inside the internet business."

Later that afternoon he received a long distance phone call. He
was quiet upset when he was finish. "My mother is coming here to
visit us in a week. We have to make you look decent. She is
always talking about me marrying a girl and now I have brought
you for the purpose, so let us fool her by doing it on the same
day she arrive. Then I could get some peace."

Some days later, Svend and Linda waited at the airport. "There
she is."

Linda saw a 200-pound woman approaching. "Hey Svend. Who is this
nice thing, you have there?" she said pointing at Linda.

"It is my wife to come. We are going to get married this
afternoon."

The jaw of the woman hit the floor.

"Linda" Linda presented her self.

"Ann" the woman replied almost speechless.

Later that evening the all three went by a priest where they
exchanged vows. Svend and Linda were now husband and wife.

Linda seemed that Ann talked down to her and did not take her
serious. Ann and Svend had an argument when Linda had told her
how they met. Linda could feel the cold from Ann and she made
remarks when she discovered that Linda did not cook. Both were a
kind of relieved when Ann went back to Netherland after a week.

That night they had full intercourse together for the first time.
Linda almost got scared because Svend seemed to lose control like
let an animal lose from inside.


8. Children and Linda's sister.

Linda had not felt good for some time, when one day the servant
called her to the phone. It was her sister Katie. She sounded a
little offended. "Why have you not called us, when you started to
live with Svend? We are your family after all. Just because you
had married a rich man, there is no reason to deny your roots."

Linda tried to explain that Bill at the bar had not given her any
address of her family. Because she could not read her search for
her sister's phone number had not been a success. Her sister
seemed to calm down and they agreed to meet at Linda's home the
next day.

When Katie and her husband Tom visited Linda, they looked around
obvious very impressed with the life Linda was living. Then Katie
said. "I can see that you are pregnant." Linda became surprised.
She did not know anything about these things; no one had talked
with her about the subject.

She asked the housekeeper to call Svend at his job and when she
told him the news, he became so happy. "I have always wanted
kids." When he returned a week later, he brought her flowers.

Linda's pregnancy did go without complications and she gave birth
to a lovely little girl. However, all the events in her life had
gone too fast and she got confused. Even thought, she once a long
time ago in the island had cared for smaller children, a baby in
her stressed situation proved too much. It was lucky that her
sister offered her assistance as a nurse. Svend was delighted.
His business was expanding and he also was nervous about Linda's
situation and no man can be at two places in the same time.

Katie almost moved in at their place. Linda slept almost the
whole day in her worn out condition. Slowly Linda recovered but
Katie stayed. Svend wanted a second child and he soon got her
pregnant once more. This time her pregnancy was difficult. The
doctor ordered her to remain at bed the last 2 month until the
baby was delivered. The birth was difficult and she lost a lot of
blood. Her sister had to enter her bedroom and milk her because
she had not the strength to feed the child herself.

Katie had taken over the household. She talked to Svend alone and
Svend agreed to buy her a car and hire some of her children to do
other jobs at Linda and Svend's home. Cleaning, cocking and even
shopping had at some point been taken over by Linda's family.
After a while the old maid left and she also was replaced by
another member of Linda's family.

Svend did not care. He even lost interest in her regarding sex
because he now had those two children he always had wanted. Linda
was very lonely in her golden cage.


9. The new security guard.

The police in Manila was underpaid and lacked resources, so when
a lot of building was robbed, Svend asked Katie to arrange for a
security firm to patrol their street. Katie went about to the
neighbours soon they had gathered enough families to hire a
security firm to guard their neighbourhood.

Linda first met Officer Austin when the alarm in the house
malfunctioned. He seemed to be a nice person and she decided to
go to lunch in the city. Katie warned her of him. "You do not
know much about life. He only wants one thing from you."

Linda did not take her serious and Svend had just called in that
he would be away for a month due some disagreement with his
partners. She dated Austin and after lunch, they went to the
cinema.

It was not the last time. Austin bought her flowers and cared for
her. One evening, when they were in town they ended up in his
apartment, where he offered her coffee, before she left.

When they sat in his sofa, he moved closer to her and gave her a
soft kiss. She did not resist. Softly he took her and carried her
into his bed. She had missed the soft touch of a lover. He
remembered Svend, when she first met him and he taught her sex in
a new way. Austin kissed her and squeezed her breast softly.

The he teased her clit softly with a gentle touch. Linda felt so
good. His every touch was almost electrical. When she was on the
edge of an orgasm, he entered her. Wet from the stirring up, it
was easy for him to trust his penis way all in and she came.

Waive after waive of pleasure went trough her body and she moaned
and shivered, while Austin worked on her. Austin also came and
they fell asleep almost at once.

The next morning Linda was tortured with guilt. She had betrayed
Svend. When she entered her home that morning, she could see the
contempt in the faces of her family. They knew! Only Katie showed
other signs. Linda thought it look like satisfaction.


10. Svend's business problem

Svend sat at his office in Hong Kong. He was angry. Their
turnover had increased, but the revenue had dropped.

Since the start of the company, Svend had programmed the solution
in Java. Now with an increased staff with little knowledge of
Java, he was under pressure to add some .NET solutions. They were
costly regarding the price of a Java-solution.

Arnold his partner did argue in favour of a .Net solution. It was
the first real crisis in the company's history. Since the start,
Svend had been the keystone in programming the solutions. He felt
slighted as if the other owners wanted to free themselves from
him.

It was to damn frustrating and he felt that he spent too much
time at his work instead of being together with his family. He
needed to get his frustration out of his system and went to the
company dungeon where he whipped one of the poor girls they used
as models in their website. His company had always been doing a
lot for the employees and the dungeon was a marvellous idea from
the human resource department.



11. The entire family on the take.

Katie woke Linda one morning with concern in her voice. "There
had been a storm at our parent's island. The roof of their house
fell down. Luckily, they were not hurt. But now they have no
place to live."

"We can buy supplies with some of the money I get from Svend.
Perhaps I can get some in advance. I would phone Svend at once."

When Svend heard the reason for her call, he replied that they
did not need to use Linda's allowance. They could built a new
house with a loan from him and enlarged the house a little so
there could be some space for Linda to live in when she some day
would visit her parents. It would be healthy for his children to
know their grandparents.

The new house was constructed within a month and Linda, together
with Katie and her children all went to visit her parents. It was
her first visit back home since she left for Bill's Bar. It was
still a peaceful place, but Linda had changed. She could not find
peace and neither here at her birthplace she was without
problems. Her father was getting old and the fishing had not been
good for some time. As result, Linda ended up sending a little
amount every month to her parents after all out of her allowance.

Back in Manila, Katie continued running the household. One day
when Linda was shopping with Austin, they met Tom - Katie's
husband. Tom had not seen Linda, when he greeted Austin. They
knew each other, which Linda had no knowledge of. When he saw
Linda, he greeted her shortly and then disappeared from sight.

Linda personal life with Svend had ended. He spent more and more
time working and making business travels. Linda spent her time
entertained by Austin. Katie took care of the children and ran
the household.


12. Svend leaves the family.

One day Svend came home and asked Katie if she could send Linda
into his home-office. When Linda entered, Svend told her that he
had bought an apartment where he was going to live alone. He
would provide for her and their children, but he no longer loved
Linda and wanted adventure. There was however no reason to start
a divorce. She could stay as his wife on paper.

Linda cried. He had loved Svend regardless of his brutal act
during lovemaking. He had rescued her from Bill's bar and a life
in the gutter. She started to drink and did not want to see
Austin, when he called. One afternoon however he turned up at her
home, and they had sex after she told Katie to take the children
on at shopping trip. When he told her, that he also was tired of
her, she gave him money for a new watch.

Katie continued to drink all afternoon often sleeping the whole
morning away. Several time she had blackout lasting days.

Svend arranged for pool-parties at his new flat. Many young girls
participated. He used the parties as recruiting sessions for the
website. Arnold joined him regardless of their controversies and
they enjoyed themselves.

Occasionally he went to his old house and took his children out
for a drive. However, he was careful avoiding Linda. Svend loved
his new life. Linda did cost him money, but she had after all
given birth to his children and without talking to her, he did
not have to feel sorry for her. All his contacts and arrangement
regarding finances and the children went trough Katie.

One day, Linda decided that her drinking had to stop. She called
Katie and told her that she and the children would leave for her
parent's home and she would phone Svend in order to stop further
money transactions.

Katie became furious. "Do you know what Svend's money is doing
for the rest of the family? We are all depended of his money.
Think about your own parents, my children and your cousin. What
are they going to live of?"

"They would have to get a job." Linda was firm.

Katie became so angry, that she left for the rest of the day.


13. Austin and Katie

A week later, Austin came by late in the evening. He was
concerned. "I have heard, what you are about to move to your
parents. What about my job? I guard this neighbourhood and you
family are the one, which pays me most. If you move, the rest of
the families can not afford the price my firm wants."

"I know, but I need to get away from here. I am worn down by this
house, my sister etc. I need a fresh start."

Katie came in the room with something to drink. "I would not
disturb you. I am going to put the children to bed. Enjoy."

Linda and Austin sat down and took a drink. I had been a long day
with practical things to do. She had talked with Svend, and he
was concerned about the education of the children. There was no
school on the Island and he was afraid that they would not learn
the skills necessary to live in a modern world. Linda took it as
an insult because she could not read and became angry. The
conversion stopped when they started to shout at each other.

Linda felt so tired and she told Austin that it was time for him
to leave because she needed to go to sleep. Just as she had said
her sentence, she dropped her cup and fell back in her chair.

Katie came into the living room. "Is she asleep?"

"Yes, she went out cold."

Then Katie and Austin carried her out to his car, placing her in
the back seat with a bottle of whiskey in her hand.

"Go over to Tom and take him with you. Do not mention that I am
involved."

Austin left with the headlights of the car shut off.


14. Murder

Svend had partied all day and he was going tired to bed. Arnold -
also present -said that he was going to clean up and sleep in the
guest room downstairs. Svend was still concerned with Linda
decision of moving out to the Island.

Around midnight Svend slept. Downstairs Arnold had not gone to
bed. He was looking out of the window. Svend had been a pain in
the ass for the company for a long time. His stubbornness
regarding the use of Java in a world where other technologies
would out perform Java in a matter of time had made Arnold decide
that it was time for Svend to leave the company. In order to
prevent Svend taking the customers with him, he must die.

When he saw Austin's car he went to the door.

Half an hour earlier, Tom had opened the door. To his surprise
Austin and one of his colleagues stood outside. "Svend had
mistreated Linda and we are now going to visit him. If we cannot
convince him to continue providing for Linda, your wife too would
be out of job. Because you know Svend, we would like for you to
come with us."

Tom agreed reluctant. He knew Austin and had tried to avoid him
in the past. Austin meant trouble. When he entered, he saw Linda
with the whiskey bottle. "It was her idea, but I think that we
should wait to wake her, when I have talked to Svend first. She
needs it because of his treatment of her." Then they all drew to
Svend's flat.

Arnold opened for Austin and his pal. With lowered voice, Arnold
told Austin that Svend slept on the first floor. Austin went up
the stairs with Arnold behind him. Austin took a ski mask on.

Svend woke by the noise. A man with a gun wearing a ski mask
stood by his bed. "What???" The man shot him once in his stomach.
With disbelief, Svend sat up in the bed. A large red spot
broadened on his T-shirt. He wanted to get up and fight the man,
but he could not feel his legs. The man aimed again. He saw
Arnold at the door. Now he understood. "NO!!!".

Down in the alley Tom stood guard. He was nervous. Suddenly he
heard a gunshot followed by another. Then he ran.

Austin and his friend still wearing a ski mask ran down the
stairs. On the way out Austin hit Arnold in the face just so
Arnold would be in the clear. Then they ran to the car and left
the scene.

Arnold waited a few minutes so the car could get away without
anyone noticing the registration numbers and ran to the street
shouting "Murder!".

When some people approached him, he said: "My friend is shot.
That bitch murdered her."

Arnold was careful not to show how happy he was. Now he could run
the company as he like. Regardless, who Svend's heir would
become, they did not know much about the business and what it
dealt in.

It was almost morning, when a taxi parked just outside Linda's
house. Two unknown men in town, which paid him good so he could
drive their drunken girl friend home, had stopped the cab driver.
He woke her when they arrived and a confused Linda stepped out.
She greeted one of her neighbours, who was out collecting the
newspaper and went into bed. She could not remember being outside
her home and thought, that it was a dream.


15. Chaos at the funeral

At noon the next day, the doorbell rang. Katie went to the door.
She called Linda and said that the police would like to speak
with her. Receiving them in the living room, she told them to sit
down. Then they told her, that Svend had died in a shooting.
Linda broke completely down. They had to call a doctor so she
could be given something to relax on.

Katie got Ann's - the mother in law - phone number from Linda and
called her in Netherland.

When Ann received the fatal phone call, she was in shock. After a
while, she got angry. Her little innocent son had died. He was
her only child. Her first husband died in a traffic accident,
when the boy was four. She raised him by her self. He was always
so polite and gentle. Every day he offered to wash the dices and
rub her feet after work.

Years later, she met a new man. Svend liked him from the very
beginning and he grew up in harmony. When he got his own flat,
she continued to visit him and advise him how to maintain a
proper home. Oddly enough, he did not get a girl friend. Perhaps
he was too busy with his work. He became a computer programmer
specialising in something as odd as the internet. First, she did
not understand the concept, but when he to her disappointment
moved to the other side of the world; she kept in touch with him
by email.

She had been surprised when his mails suddenly mentioned a girl
with the name of Linda. Almost 10 years younger than Svend, she
thought that he was just having a girlfriend to screw.

When she first saw Linda, her first impression seemed to be
right, but Svend had surprised her by marrying the girl before
she could have a serious talk with him. And she did not even
cook! Her son would starve at some point. That was sure.

To her surprise, Linda had given her two grandchildren. However,
Ann got upset, when Svend had emailed her that her sister was
hired to look after them. What kind of woman could not look after
her own children? Ann remembered that she easily could make it,
when she was alone with Svend. Linda did not have her respect.

What about the grandchildren? Would they vanish, if Svend could
not support them longer? She was shocked, when she learned that
Linda either could read or calculate.

Ann took the first plane to Manila with her husband. Katie
greeted them at the airport. She became on good terms with Ann at
once. They drove to the hospital where Tom - her husband - had
driven Linda. Still drugged by the medicine the doctor had given
her, Linda remained crushed then Ann saw her son. Linda could
make her self see Svend.

Later they drove to the undertaker, where Katie and Ann decided
on all the small things, which had with the funeral to do. They
finally dropped Ann and her husband of at their hotel.

By accident, they ran in to Arnold at the hotel. He had seen them
on pictures at Svend's office and offered to dine with them.
Asked about whether Svend was happy at the end, Arnold told of
Svend's marriage going wrong due to Linda affair with some
security guard.

This upsetted Ann further and the day before the funeral she went
to the police station where she asked for the police report. When
she was told that they had not had the time to write it, she paid
500$ to get it done.

The funeral went without any special remarks and Ann left for
Netherland. Linda decided to send her son to her parents, while
her daughter remained in Manila at her sister's place because she
attended school. She was completely broken and spent her entire
day alone crying and morning.


16. A mother in law on a rampage.

Back in Netherland Ann read the police report. Something was
wrong. No money was stolen. Why did they kill her son? No signs
of a fight were found, so they did not kill him because he
resisted. He was murdered in his bed.

Her son to her knowledge had a respectable job in the society. A
solid citizen! Who could benefit from killing him? Then she
understood. Linda wanted his money. If Linda divorced Svend, she
would not get any money due to the law out there, but if Svend
died, she would be his heir.

She had to prevent it. With Linda little knowledge of finance,
she would had spent the money in a short time and her
grandchildren would be lost.

She called Linda and told her that she felt so sorry for her and
would like to come out there and support her during the difficult
times. Linda accepted.

Ann took Katie's place in Linda's house. She got to know her
grandchild and took her to school every day for 2 weeks. She also
tried to find out where the other grandchild was, but she got
only vague answers. Suddenly she did not return one afternoon.
Linda became worried and called her sister. Her sister contacted
the police which found out that Ann had left the country with her
grandchild.

Linda called Ann, which told her that her child would live in
Netherland together with Ann, who would provide for her. Linda
cried. She left the home and went to Austin's place. He was not
at home, and it was clear that he had moved without leaving an
address.

Then she stayed at her sister's place for some days. Linda's
house was sold. She had to because she no longer got money from
Svend's firm. She called Arnold. He told her, that she was not
legally married to Svend. In fact, she never had, because she
only was 17, when he took her to a priest. The money would follow
the children. Now Linda was totally in despair. She went back to
Bill's bar working with cleaning and selling drinks at the bar.
25 of age, she was not too old to entertain the customers.

Back in the Netherland, Ann thought of how to bring Linda to
justice. If she returned to Manila, she was at risk of being
arrested for kidnapping. But if Linda went to jail, the court
would appoint her in charge of the children and then the problem
would be solved.

She called Katie in a try to find out it she knew something.
First Katie was afraid to talk to Ann, but then she realized that
she could benefit economically from her friendship of Ann
regardless if it would cost her sister her life. She was
disappointed when she found out that Linda would not get any
money. She told Ann where to find the last grandchild and she
even offered to send the child if her family could sell the child
for the normal price of a person in Manila - 200$.

Ann agreed and 14 days later, she welcomed her last grandchild in
the airport. Only one thing remained. Getting Linda off the
street so she could not convince the police to make an
international arrest order for kidnapping towards Ann.


17. Paying for evidence.

Katie was satisfied with the 200$, her husband Tom worried her.
He had remorse about the night where Svend died. What if he told
the wrong people? He did of course not know that she knew about
Austin. Katie had been depended of the moneyflow from Svend to
Linda. Her family all had received money in some way from Svend
direct or indirect.

She called Arnold. First, he would not talk to her but when they
started to talk, he understood her trouble. However, the company
could not hire her entire family as employee. It would be to
obvious, if the police started to dig.

But if Ann got custody of the children, she would manage Svend's
part of the profit of the company how she liked. Katie talked
with her husband, who broke and confessed of his knowledge of the
event from the night. Then she called Ann and told her that she
to her shock had discovered that Linda was in the same street
where Svend's flat laid when he was murdered. If Ann would let
the children visit her family from time to time and provide a
little money also, she would help Ann to bring Linda to justice.

When Ann agreed, Katie called the police and told them that she
had a witness, whom for amnesty could explain the events of the
night. The police agreed and Tom told them his story.

Austin and his friend were arrested and both received 40 years in
jail. Arnold had secretly met with Austin and told him that he
would pay for extra services during Austin's jailtime, if he
remained quiet about Arnold's part in the crime. Austin kept his
promise. He could not gain anything with Arnold in jail.

The police wanted to close the case of Svend's murder, but Ann
was not satisfied. She paid more than 50.000$ for witnesses and
extra petrol, and computers to the police. All the nice money for
the underpaid staff at the police made them do an extra effort.

Finally, with almost all members of Linda's family on the
witness-list for the prosecution, the police made an arrest
warrant on Linda.


18. Arrest and conviction

One morning in Bill's bar the police entered and arrested Linda.
She was confused and did not understand the charge. She had been
down in the gutter for months, because her mother in law had the
children.

The police accused her of planning the murder of her husband with
the purpose of getting his money. Linda was in shock to learn
that Austin had committed the murder. However, she was afraid and
lied about her being at her own house on this night.

Her lawyer had just left law school. He was eager to show to the
world how tuff a lawyer he had become. Therefore, he told her to
say nothing and deny anything. What he did not tell her was that
his only two previous cases were lost.

In the courtroom, her family surprised her by testifying against
her. Tom's testimony was very damaging placing her next to the
murder scene. Her former neighbour could testify that she arrived
home by taxi, when she claimed to be at home. The police had
tried to locate the cab driver and he had been found dead killed
by someone, who wanted his money. A very normal thing occurring
almost every day in Manila, so it was not suspicious.

Arnold told the court how Svend had complained of his marriage.
Even Bill came and told what kind of job Linda had before she met
Svend. No witness stepped forward in defence of her.

In his office, the Judge sat and thought about what kind of
punishment she should receive. Normally planning and killing a
husband would mean death penalty. But something about this case
stank. Even inside his court building the rumour about the mother
in law and her financial aid to the police and the family of the
accused had reach him.

So much money in Manila meant that someone had bought a
statement. He could however not pinpoint where foul play in this
case was. He had to convict her to the death. Suddenly it struck
him. She was not his wife. She was not a grown up woman, when she
married him according the law in this country. There was the
solution, now he could avoid the death sentence. She had no real
motive because she was not his heir. Perhaps time would bring the
truth to the surface. Until it manifested it self, she would be
safe in prison.

Linda had her head on the desk while she waited for the
judgement. All the damaging statement had made her lost her hope
of an acquittal. She noticed that her mother in law also was in
the courtroom. With Linda imprisoned it was safe for Ann to be in
the country. The judge came in and read the verdict.

"Linda Schmidt. You have been found guilty of planning the murder
of Svend Schimdt. For this crime, you are sentenced to 40 years
in prison without parole. The court is adjourned."

The lawyer said "Goodbye" and left in a hurry.


19. A final humiliation

An officer took her to a holding cell, where she had to wait for
the car to her new home for the next 40 year.

While she was waiting, Ann came to her cell with a couple of
strangers. It turned out to be a Dutch film crew. She had been
too worn out to notice them inside the courtroom. While they were
filming, Ann talked to her.

"You took my son so now I have your children"

Linda was speechless. Her mind could not understand the full
consequences of the verdict so her only answer was "Take good
care of them."

"I would send you some of their drawings every reminding you what
you would miss in the years to come, so you can learn how you
have wasted your life. You had always had every chance in life
but you had choices had made you spill it. You would be an old
lady before they let you out and I would never have to see you
anymore."

She gave her an envelope with several drawings and left the
crying woman.

Outside with the cameras turned off, she met with Katie and
assured her that she would continue to provide for Linda's
parents so the children could visit them, when they were older.


20. Ending fine - everything fine?

What became of all the people after the conviction was
pronounced? Let us have a look:

Linda's children are now living in Netherland at Ann's house,
where they get an education, which would have not been possible
in Manila. It remains unclear what kind of impression of their
mother Ann would give them.

Ann continues to send money to Katie and Linda's parents. She
also remains in touch with Arnold, but she had still not any
knowledge about what kind of business, she and Arnold controls.
To this day, she regards the reputation of her sons business to a
respectable one.

Katie's husband is now working again in a new job, because his
conscience had been cleared by his testimony in court.

Linda lawyer would perhaps win one of his cases one fine day.
After 20 lost cases, he is still hoping.

The Dutch film crew made a fine documentary, which were exported
to several countries.

Ib Colding returned to Denmark after his world tour to find the
windows in his house smashed once more.

Austin remains in prison where he enjoys life due to the extra
money from Arnold.

Bill continues to run his bar. He ended up marrying Samantha.

Linda had to settle when she entered the prison and adjust to the
fact that she was going to live there for the next 40 years. Soon
she joined classes in order to learn how to read and write.
Perhaps one day she could write to her children and explain them
how she saw the story. She would be 68 years old, if she lives to
the day where her prison time is over. Ironically, she regards
her life to be better than it would be at Bill's bar.
A sad, depressed and bittersweet story.


