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When it cahed Al’s h even the hts
It was 540 AM--a radio station
Shaking Chubs back aasn’t enough for ht I would actually burst at the seams with excite hi him in the kidney in the process I’m not sure what sound he made when I landed, but I was fairly certain it wasn’t hu hiave you EDO, did they say anything else?"
"Green, if I can still walk tomorrow, so helpabout tuning in, or picking it up?"
He fixed me with a baleful look "All they said was to check out Edo"
"Check out?" I repeated "Those exact words?"
"Yes!" he said, exasperated "Why?"
"I rong before," I said "I don’t think the nuht before The last letter isn’t a letter at all--it was supposed to be a zero Five forty It’s some kind of radio station"
"How in the world did you reach that conclusion?"
Ah The tricky part in all of this How to BS the fact I had cheated and seen the answer, rather than being in possession of brain power to actually work it through "I was trying to think of what else uses three digit nu and the others, Ito find a radio here I should haveof it until now"
"Ohhis head, mildly stunned "I don’t even believe it We have honestly had such shit luck this entire trip I thought at least two of us were going to end up dead in a ditch soured it out"
"We need a radio," I said "I think I’ the others"
"Betty?"
"No!" I wasn’t about to leave the tent unguarded, even for fifteen rab it"
The store was rushing aroundcolors as I ran, but I wasn’t afraid of as lurking there, not now I hadn’t iined the radio after all It was back in the small cluster of rafts and blankets that Liam and his friend had set up the last ti in front of the shelves by the tiot back I set the san to fuss with its buttons, searching for the ON switch
I had to be the one to start it up--and the one to fumble with the volume knob when it just about blew our eardru was ancient, a beat-up silver box, but it worked The speakers jus I recognized
"It has to be AM," Chubs said, taking the radio in his hands "FM frequencies don’t go up past 108 or so Here we go--"