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"I can And I shall, if Mac doesn't come"

"You'll be taken," he shouted

"I don't care If I'm taken, I'm taken I shall carry hiht: It's all right If he sees I'o He'll come back to the stretcher

But John had turned and was running

Even then she didn't realise that he was running away, that she was left there with the wounded s didn't happen like that People ran away all of a sudden, in panics, because they couldn't help it; they didn't begin by going slowly and stopping to argue and turning round and walking backwards; they were gone before they knehere they were She believed that he was going for the ambulance One moment she believed it and the next she knew better As she waited in the road (conscious of the turn, the turn with its curving screen of tall trees) her knowledge, her dreadful knowledge, ca up and up John wasn't co back He would no more come back than he had come back the other day Sutton had come The other day had been like to-day John was like that

Herclearly, what John was like For a ht: I don't believe Mac's gone He wouldn't go until he'd got theht about the Gererous for Mac and everybody, with the Ger round the corner any ; she o on

She stooped down and turned hiot hi again, swung hi attention and drawing on all her energy, dulled the pain of her knowledge When she stood up with hi to her She lowered herthat she had given it up and that he was now abandoned to the Ger"

She saw McClane holding John by the ar She had the illusion of his being dragged back unwillingly

McClane s heaped on his stretcher