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An aig gondosill tht had been ue * hed ake SN function, “Tcho stant Teve: orale i oxtoar | uscd te circulate win thresgh tie pends win the only pee cay yeu 1 unk al be a good ides if we called Teho * gureiving festa te the expyriniwnt. The hase all hale . and talked tireetty te him.” . bhad been feinst ol the Sunitives found only bull, yl 3: Sack and Enaily marched wa nearhy pay phene \ healt and a few uotersized picketed. ; , ach 3 ant dialed Berkeley, [ith was diplomatic, tly costed | But that served fa HRC the farm morc jrolated. ; . “ vee Was 7 Pane Tor net hrivhng Jack about dhe SEA‘ hier | Fishermen never bathered avith Gia seedy ponds. “b he: ~ pie the | groficad seruclure. All of Uist caulk be discussed | few avalarists who buunped gent ic house Were intra-§ ; ee imtanees | ners rationally when he senshed the Ea Coat, t spective farmers who fived down the dusty road out sb A Lact. eThe cristal thing 1 that f get ont thers." Til panved, of sight anc eanbat, ; ens bay! Jack's Angel had cooled. “Et woul) he a yreat help The howe alo Way ideal. From the outside it - 7 4 if you could come back and ride with me.” * loomed tall and weathecel Dirty wile paiat pected . . onto waist-bigh weeds that achviy bid a0 old and temperamental water dank. On ihe s6e- and floor Was 5 balcony with 2 wrought-iron railing. Below was 2 sereened in porch wilh hanging lwp where evenings gould be spent fisteaing 10 Ue filany of feags and crickets. Enside were four bedrooms, 4 kiuches, a living room, dining foo) and altic—an €%- . * Le ge at . yonve I ~_A Tart tas) far nd Jack opied ror a | = t Toone 4 Shep FORTS WELO% the wet mae panne . a a ? , pansive layout for three people who'd been} re | vcd. siceping on floors in cramped 2partncats, ! wet 10 > f reee ks Marnings brought rsh sunsises flcoding = ¢ 4 wks & Gay ever the Pocono Mountains, driving the =; f : “¥ 7 % black fies and arescuie2s 1AtO qhe shade of = ¢ P | en | eQguPp @. dx re back 12@0a¢C 3 clump of irecs that bordered the sear of |” 7 not ~ A e « 7 * he fom By mite ths fugitives wee foe . Ta tot, sTaR OF eases WROKes out tying in the sua ike thres wlaite-boilt ab 4 Were yike sa ce COTEUS PaCkKe is) bass tossed wa the banks of the pords. Paty | 4} 2 y cs r n spent lang hours on a prassy hummock. The + a ST en ae) ada or ant Patt Get Cake Hareises adapted fo tac sum More slowly. : ‘ =¢ . e ¢ e ¥ + Within days, howeved, alt three were a . oer ty Feat atone te crimson brows. i ‘ cot ried yee iy S102 ae Er t aii The Pennsylvania sURyMner seemed tote, : - g : scare Fy ty sh e Ls te fax and rejuvenate the fugitives. They read en fies}: Sr ougial EEHTEE! ER “YRES Sue CaS2. Marx and Rebray during the morning cool, 3 ; sd wp . - a. . ap ° . thee went sunning and aig ad or ae “94 aa YET _ $2 gape say each othee inta Cie wate. ney picked wil H y . head |. 3 ack found ote Seek ROyINS blackberries from bushes prowite across the aan ar was 7 road and dropped hook and fine in search of. | ay . ccled : the scavenger fish they grew to like eook:d td , of hu- with buuer and onicns. i ia y : om oad Bik carefully instructed puty how to ¢ Saad - - avoid 2 bulthead’s s7iny fins oF 3 pickerci’s * Mi R ; iy of 3 fearsome tecth when tearing them of a hoak.- fps cords But Pary giectuity ignored the advice and d coupls grabbed thers parehaadenl, shrugging off he ¥ he was * An / é . resuiting cuts and pies. When onc bullhead . ure be- : pide Le eit i fell off ber hook, she lueched headlong into : : ect her : __ ee _———: the pond after it. : . . . . Patty’s feistiness smaazed the others. She test, Throwzhout | Jack's nerves were still on edge from four days of | ws the first 10 try skinny-dipping in the muddy had delivered b3- } sining next Co Patly. Bu if Bil were caught, they"d ponds, The ethers had joined jn ontil Bil emerged | x vt tut wheo the re- 1 alt be in trouble. | from the water ane day clutching his penis. “Serac- ve sed, The fugitives Tl) be there a5 $00n aS Lean.” Jack ficw 10 Berke- | thing bit se.” he yelped- “and Christ does it hoe” as ley and borrowed a CT. . One of the watersnakes in the pond had nipped him. : H} han sew York without Bill and Jack oyted for o southern route below the | “E think you't2 going 40 live.” smiled Emily. “But e tt a wheartening news. Rockies and across the Great Plains. They posed | your fucking days may b¢ numbered.” ; ann a” driver's girlfriend | as a gay couple. On the back ledge West the same “Yd fike to sce you go in there now,” came back his x - iad river te call a off. tennis rackels that Jack and Patty had carried 4 week | lnunt, _ Sole pee ee ; y —_— - * | before—he had brought them west agaia in his suil- Suddenty their bantering Wes intertupted:” Patty — ip > t 7 Seal living \ case. . . - laughed, slipped off her clothes and jomped into the y 3 ving room | Jack found himself enjoying the jecond trip mueh | pond. During childhood summers at her family’s " ixn't here Fin in | more than the first. The (wo men had common inters | CMAICS Patty had learned to hike snakes, Now »hen- ; wis what to do." | ests, hud played spore and could talk without the- | ever she'd find one cured up behind the farmhouse ar oe speabing in |n interference. Will was mt ax preecenpicd by, she'd pick it up to show the others. But ne onc else the chance he'd he recognized. They Me together would touch them. Ment wave, “Wait | in restaurants and at ene point changed 3 Sat tite In their political study sessions Emily and Micki vw hyging in com- for an aly enuple stopped by Ue side of abe highway. | were Palty’s seniors. “Tania ® 5 sivier,” Emily told | Theis only sense romper came in Inhana acat- | Michi. “But xhe’s Mill Learning.” The Iwo older women ask av if adilressing BS hametown, They were standing in Ting at the | became close. Sometimes they'd have long canversa- ad Eehke by fies is | Pm thad, You were . . there and you're ' ¢ ' H teush repistee of a roadside esfe when @ phatanx of | tions about feminism while siting on the kitchen flocs. { siute bighway patraimen yot up from a neashy table drinking cotlec. M ichi confided that she'd Fett a litle sad appeared te converye on Then, jealouy wher Jack was traveling across country with : ul hucriedly walked out, leaving beliind bis coffee- | 2 waman she had nat rhea art. Emily replied that she ; ' i l t at to-go and a extremely nervous companion. Jack | and bith tried not ta be 30 prosscanive of each other, -phuied. “What the | quickly paid’ the bill and raced after Dill, But the | They were working it out intellectually, she said, but