Part 51 If Oak Trees Could Talk! FINALE & A FREE GIFT!
Yay! Everybody, I am so excited and yet a little saddened that this week, we are concluding the Video Blogs of my Romance/Suspense If Oak Trees Could Talk! I want to thank all of you who have “tuned in” each week or read along with me. I never realized how long the process would be but I love you for being faithful and showing up! As I told the story I’ve tried to imagine you sitting across the table from me as if you were an old friend! This video blog is a little longer this week as I felt it necessary to get the rest of the story in, but it is the grand finale of If Oak Trees Could Talk! So being true to my word, I want to give you the surprise gift that I mentioned in the last Video Blog for being here today and in the past weeks!
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We are picking up in Chapter 22 The Ghost, and will finish the book in Chapter 23!
They rushed out of the door and down the hallway going as fast as Helen could with her walker. Soon they rounded the corner to the nurse’s station. When Nurse Warren saw them she immediately ran to them as she could see that they were very upset.
“Is everything okay, Mrs. Tyler?” Nurse Warren asked.
“No not at all, it is urgent that we call our Daughter!” Helen said.
“Okay, but is there anything that I can do to help you?” Nurse Warren asked.
“No, please, I just need to talk with my Daughter immediately!” Helen stated.
“Nurse Warren went around the desk and placed the telephone onto the counter. Do you know your Daughter’s telephone number, Mrs. Tyler?”
“Yes I do!” Helen answered as she dialed Amelia’s number as fast as she could while Henry held the phone. “Here Henry, tell her what you told me!” Helen ordered,
The telephone rang once, twice, three times and still no answer, then on the fourth ring Amelia answered the phone.
“Hello, Steele Residents” she said,
“Amelia, it’s your father! Something is terribly wrong. Mr. Hodges and Sheriff Eugene are going to commit murder if they haven’t already. I heard them say it needed to be done immediately to a Mr. Stapleton. We need you to convince someone that I am not making this up! Something has to be done!” Henry said very directly. “Do you understand me, Amelia? I heard them say they that they were going to do it. I also saw what they were going to do it with. The Sheriff is dirty, so I do not know who to call. Please tell Robert. We would like to get out of here as soon as possible!”
“Daddy, Mr. Howard and Mr. Henderson are here. They will know what to do. Go back to your room immediately and we will come after you! Lock the door! We will be there after you. Hurry, go back to your room and wait on us to get there! Do not open the door until you hear mine or Robert’s voice,” Amelia pleaded.
Amelia ran immediately into the front room where her company was. She told them what her Daddy overheard and seen. Mr. Howard used Amelia’s telephone and immediately called the counties District Attorney and the regular police department since Glenview is in the city limits. Mr. Howard and Mr. Henderson left immediately to go to Glenview. Robert called his sister and dropped the boys off, as Nurse Melba Applegate and Amelia drove on to the Glenview.
When Amelia had gotten to Glenview, the police was already there. She pressed through with Nurse Applegate after convincing the police that it was her parents that had called. She ran through the entrance past the nurse’s station to the hallway where her parent’s room was. She knocked urgently and told them to please open up.
Immediately Henry opened the door and Amelia fell in his arms. He was obviously shaken, but strong. Amelia then ran to her Momma, “are you okay?”
“We’re fine Dear, just upset that Mr. Hodges is so evil. I feel sorry for poor Ed and Immagene Perkins. Bless their hearts. How their hearts must break to have a son like Sheriff Eugene.” Helen sighed sadly.
“Daddy the police are going to want to talk with you. Are you ready for this?” Amelia asked.
“Yes, Dear, I am ready! You do believe me don’t you Amelia?” Henry asked rather pathetically.
“Of course I believe you Daddy!” Amelia reassured.
When Amelia and her parents walked around the corner, Mr. Hodges was pressed up against the wall in handcuffs. Henry couldn’t believe what he saw. He feared that they would think he was just a senile old man because it was his word over Mr. Hodges but they took him seriously.
“Mr. Tyler, Sir, may we speak to you, please?
“Absolutely Police officer, Henry said as he followed the police officer and signed papers promising that all the things he had witnessed and heard were true. Mr. Howard was by Henry’s side.
“Oh and Mr. Tyler, Good news, you saved Mr. Stapleton’s life. He is in very serious condition, but he is alive. It seems that what was in the syringe was some kind of allergens that Mr. Hodges knew that he was allergic to. It would have been fatal if you had not called when you did. We will ask more questions later, go home and get some rest.” The Policeman said.
“Let’s go home, Helen! Are you ready?” Henry asked as he pulled her in to him and kissed her hard on the lips!
“I have never been more ready in my life, my Hero!” Helen said with a huge smile!
“Oh it was just a Ghost!” Henry said with that familiar little impish grin.
Nurse Melba smiled as she stood in the distance and watched Amelia’s parents. Robert and Amelia were standing beside her. “Your parents are the real deal aren’t they?” Melba asked.
“Yes, my dear friend, they are the real deal! You must really get to know them!” Amelia answered as she watched her parents with tears of joy and admiration in her eyes.
Chapter 23
Home Sweet Home
Henry and Helen walked out of their bedroom into the kitchen. Helen put them on a pot of coffee. She couldn’t wait for it to finish brewing though for her heart longed to see the sun come up. She walked out of the French doors onto the patio and sat down. It was a brand new life and as the sun came up, Helen was grateful for the second chances. Soon Henry came out with coffee in hand.
“Here, my love! Just the way you like it!”
“You are here and sharing it with me! That’s the way I like it!” Helen commented.
“I want to make a toast! This is to a long, healthy and happy life together!” Henry said as they clicked their cups gently together. They sat peacefully as the sun rose and Henry and Helen’s new life had begun.
Henry and Helen lived their life with even more passion and purpose the second time around. They lived it with more awareness of all the tiny things that were so important. They realized that all of those tiny things in their lives that they used to take for granted, when added up were the sum of all the big things that were the most important. Henry and Helen had a second chance at being parents, grandparents, neighbors and friends and even great grandparents!
They truly pursued love. The love they pursued wasn’t the generic kind of love that was based on condition. No they learned the true unconditional kind of love. They enjoyed the giving of it and the receiving of it. Henry and Helen found out that the difficult things that come are not supposed to tear apart but are meant to bind together.
As soon as Henry was well enough, he went back to work at his hardware store. When he went back the business more than doubled. It wasn’t because people needed more hardware, but because the people crowded in for the entertainment of hearing Henry tell his stories again! He told new stories of a man who went into a nursing home with memory loss but when he wanted to remember things, he sat under an old Oak tree in his mind. He could then remember again. The people thought that he was sure telling some whoppers! Henry thought how life reads like a good fiction. As people pressed him for more and more stories, He decided to pen his own story to see if anyone would take the time to read it. He entitled his story If Oak Trees Could Talk.
Henry and Helen lived and loved until they were Ninety Eight years old. That was almost Twenty-five years after they walked out of Glenview. They were married Eighty years. They both died within two days of each other and were buried in one grave under the old Oak tree. Their monument read “They Passionately Pursued Life and Love!”
Everything they owned of course went to Amelia’s family with only one exception. Henry and Helen wanted all of the proceeds of the sales of Henry’s book If Oak Trees Could Talk to go to some folks who couldn’t afford their bills at the Glenview Residential Home for the Elderly in Mason Creek, Georgia.
Robert, Amelia and their family still had a crowd of regulars at Tyler’s Hardware store. People would still gather around to hear Henry tell his stories for years after he had died. At Amelia’s suggestion he had physically recorded himself reading his story of If Oak Trees Could Talk as well as his other embellished tales. Folks would come in as usual. They would get them an ice cold soda pop along with a brown paper sack of fresh hot boiled peanuts cooked with Henry’s very own recipe. As they pulled themselves up a chair and listened to Henry’s whopper tales, they continued to enjoy Henry’s company!
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