...Back inside the sawmill, things were getting progressively worse for the glamorous sexy secret agent! Not only had Hans turned up the music and was now singing louder and louder, trying to make sure she could hear him over the din of the huge spinning blade, but now he was dancing! Yes, dancing in place, doing some kind of disco, mid 70's kind of funky jive moves. And for a man so graceful dancing with a partner on the floor, he was not dancing very well! It was in fact downright ugly to watch!.
Trouble is, the lovely Mrs. D. faced problem far bigger than a Gong Show worthy dance routine by her demented host; namely, a matter of distance. In particular, the rapidly decreasing distance between her and the spinning blade known as Frau Summensäge! For at that second, there were only 6 inches of daylight left between the edge of the blade and the end of the log; no, make that 5 inches. Then it was 4, 3, 2, 1 and then
VRRRRRRRWWRRRW! The blade bit deeply and determinedly into the log, sending a shower of sawdust in all directions, including over the madly struggling damsel tied upon it! True her forward motion slowed somewhat, but still, the blade was now only 4 inches from her spread ankles. At this rate she figured she had only a matter of seconds before it made it's way up between her legs, cut first into her raised hem, and then into her black thong, and finally herself!
All pretense of keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of certain death went out the window as the edge of the blade started cutting the log between her ankles; it was now making it's way up the inside of her spread legs, which were thrashing wildly against the ropes holding them fast! She screamed into her gag in frustration as she twisted her bound hands every which way she could, but to no avail! She pulled, tugged, tried to move her hips, her waist, her chest, anything, but besides her neck and her fingers, she was held so tightly against the log she could move nothing, not a muscle, not a joint, not a breast, nothing!
As she screamed in utter frustration with a growing sense of terror as the cascade of warm sawdust fell over her, she suddenly thought of her loving husband, sitting at home, waiting for her to return. How would he react when she didn't? How long would he search for her? How long would he grieve? And why, oh why, had she NOT listened to his sound and growing sounder by the vanishing inch advice to give up spying and stay at home with him? As this thought filled her head, she could just barely see the blade's progress through the spray of sawdust; it was now even with her knees. She started to cry; she did not want it to end like this!
She had wanted to die of old age, at home, in bed with the man she loved, and not cut in two by a lunatic and his pet saw!"Why oh why did I not STAY retired?" She sobbed into her gag.
As the blade bit deeper and deeper into the log, it was now even with the last rope on her legs; at her upper thigh just below her raised hem. Had the saw been a lover, instead of a mechanical angel of death, it would have been just about to consummate their love! She pulled hard against the ropes with every fiber of her being, screaming louder and louder into her muffling gag, begging for a miracle, for a chance to go home, to see her husband just one more time!
The saw was now even with the top of her stockings, and was just about to bite into the shortened hem of her short black designer dress.
Mrs. D. now only had a few short seconds to live....