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As he poured the water into the boiling radiator, Hernando looked up at their stricken faces "Oh, thank you, thank you," said one of the girls "You don't knohat this means"

Hernando soes one way North"

He did not ain there all of the very hard And the younghis hands on their shoulders and shaking theently, one at a time, but they held their papers over their heads and their ed color and they cried, some loud, some soft

Hernando stood with the half-e, senor," he apologized

"That's all right," said the driver

"What is wrong, senor?"

"Haven't you heard?" replied the young htly to the wheel with one hand, leaning forward "It's happened"

This was bad The others, at this, cried still harder, holding onto each other, forgetting the newspapers, letting the rain fall and le with their tears

Hernando stiffened He put the rest of the water into the radiator He looked at the sky, which was black with stor He felt the asphalt under his shoes

He caave hiave it back "It is my pleasure"

"Thank you, you're so kind," said one of the girls, still sobbing "Oh, Mama, Papa Oh, I want to be home, I want to be home Oh, Mama, Dad" And others held her

"I did not hear, senor," said Hernando quietly

"The war!" shouted the young man as if no one could hear "It's come, the atom war, the end of the world!"

"Senor, senor," said Hernando

"Thank you, thank you for your help Good-by," said the young man