![]() ![]() They quickly made for the boulderfield Danik had indicated. If you can see to do it, please welcome him into your arms. Heavenly Father, we send you our friend Run Dutil, a good and true American. As McCaughlin rolled up good-sized rocks to the body and then hefted a capstone in place, Rockson said, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln - a plastic figure."ĭanik agreed, Run Dutil was solemnly carried outside, still in his frozen, stiff sitting position. I left him - and his notebook of our travels - right where he died." Danik's voice trailed off. I was - was too weak, delirious, frightened. ![]() He threw up the food and convulsed and died. It gave me the strength to go on, but Run was sickening from a snake bite he got the sixth day out of Eden. Must have been decades old, but we cut them open and ate the stuff. When Run and I broke open the box, we found some canned goods inside. Some other hapless wanderers must have brought it here - we found disintegrating skeletons on the second floor, next to charred wood on a sheet-metal plate. We found a steel box in here, all rusted and jammed closed. "It should be over there - in the shadows - propped up against the wall. There was a pack rat sticking its nose out of the decayed fabric. "His top hat don't look too good." Rona said. But there was no letup in the cold temperatures, or in the golfball-sized hailstones pounding the hunched-down travelers. Soon they were approaching the old border of Colorado into Arizona. Taking the bearing to the southeast that Dutil's notes indicated, they moved their sleds along at a good thirty miles per hour through icy weather conditions. A tattered and mouse-eaten American flag hung disintegrating on a pole nearby. He was staring forever at the three astronauts in spacesuits that had returned from the moon and were coming in to receive his accolades. The snow flurries drifted in on the figure of John F. Light spilled in from above through a hole in the ceiling. Danik took the lead, and they passed a lifelike statue of Teddy Roosevelt riding a horse in the Battle of Bull Run, and then a replica of President Bush signing the Martial Law decree in the Oval Office. ![]()
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