Here are the verbs in past tenses in paragraph 2 of the story:
1. had gone - Past Perfect (action which happened before another past action)
2. was walking - Past Continuous (action in progress at a specific time in the past)
3. began - Past Simple (specific action that started at a particular time in the past)
4. dashed - Past Simple (specific action that happened at a particular time in the past)
5. didn't have - Past Simple (negative form of the past tense to express absence in the past)
6. decided - Past Simple (specific action that occurred at a particular time in the past)
7. stopped - Past Simple (specific action that happened at a particular time in the past)