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“You saved all our lives, Mr McMurphy,” Mary Catherine said “What I think of you is that your hoood man”

McMurphy senuinely surprised

“You do? Really?”

“Yes, of course,” Mary Catherine said

“In that case,” McMurphy said, retrieving a Zippo and a pot pipe from his pocket, “do you want to smoke some dope with me?”

Mary Catherine shook her head, disappointed

“No, Mr McMurphy,” she said “Remember our deal with the children here Unfortunately, your home will have to remain a dope-free zone until we leave”

McMurphy sighed as he put the pipe away

“Oh, well Different strokes and all that,” he said, standing and yawning “Good night, now Get the kiddies up early, and we’ll leave at first light”

CHAPTER 101

MARY CATHERINE HAD JUST laid her head down on one of the bo sound started

She went out into the hall area to find McMurphy running like mad toward the front of the compound

“What is it?”

“Motion detector!” he yelled, more animated than Mary Catherine had ever seen him “Outside perimeter’s been breached! I knew it Sector B It was the CB They must have picked it up Dammit! Just like the danals”

She followed hireen locker’s Master lock Inside, shining with gun oil, was an arsenal Tactical shotguns, scoped hunting rifles, several M-16s McMurphy pulled out one of the auto sound He threw ten or so otherand rifle over his shoulder