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Vida grabbed her machine pistol and opened the door

“Let’s walk, but quickly,” she said “I want out of this shithole before the sun comes up”

CHAPTER 100

McMURPHY CAME IN AND placed a cup of tea in front of Mary Catherine as she hung up the CB

“Did you get in contact with Mike?” he asked, plopping down in a camp chair

“Yes, I did,” Mary Catherine said, taking a sip “Don’t worry I didn’t tell hiet into trouble with the law or anyone else, after all you’ve done for us Actually, I couldn’t have told him if I’d wanted to I don’t knohere we are”

McMurphy laughed

“Heck, soet lost out here,” the burly sixty-year-old said “But I figured remote is what the doctor ordered, with those bad old Mexican cowboys after you This is the safest place I thought to bring you to”

The McMurphy Mountain Compound was actually pretty incredible Instead of the run-down shack and , his horound bunker Built almost directly into the side of a hill, his hobbit hole, as he called it, consisted of twenty old school-bus fra off to the right and left

Convinced of an ihties with soht up the old buses one by one on a 4x4 flatbed, dug out the hill, welded theain

He told her that when the nuclear winter didn’tht fro used as hydroponic un room, a workshop, and several bedrooms stacked with bunk beds, where the kids now slept

It had heat, ventilation, electricity run off propane, fresh water Even two neat and clean bathroo toilets

It wasn’t just the co McMurphy, despite his frazzled, nutty appearance, had been so nice and gentle with the children Before he had brought the children in, he had closed and securely locked the doors to all the grow rooracious host, he made sure that everyone was coames, but he had Monopoly and Scrabble and cards and a dartboard

He’d shown the children the collections on the s, pointing out the petrified sea creatures in them,

put there millions of years in the past when the Sierra Madre had been the floor of an ancient sea