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“Is your helicopter all right?”
“It’s fine I thought I’d get out of it and take a nap in the shade When I woke up, I had already lost a fistfight”
The sound of a helicopter in the distance drew their attention The roar grew louder, the leaves on trees began to whip back and forth in the wind, and the helicopter hovered Looking up, Sah the treetops that there was aan M16 rifle
“Maybe you’d better let them see you, Tim,” said Sam
Carmichael stepped into the area by his helicopter and waved both aruns on their prisoners The radio in Tiht?” It was the voice of Art Bowen
Tios are here with ot five prisoners, two of them wounded”
“Sit tight We’re co in”
The helicopter landed, and three ed, stockythe helicopter came more slowly, but he was also armed with an M16
As Sam and Remi walked with Tim Carmichael to watch Art Bowen and his men load the five prisoners into the helicopters, Remi said, “I’ll bet Tim would like to take a few days off after this”
Carmichael clilasses “You know, I justto those five talk, I realized that the only reason I’m alive is that, without me, they couldn’t move the helicopter”
THE BURNED PATCH IN ALTA VERAPAZ,
THREE WEEKS LATER
Sarah Allersby walked from the pair of parked helicopters into the thick Guaterown over this trail a thousand years ago, so it would be difficult to deh she was sure it was She hacked her way along with aher feet to find a spot that would be clear enough for the revelation
She glanced back along the trail There were fifteen journalists, all of the complicated camera equipment and recorders and satellite phones But they were all chattering aith one another about God knohat They weren’t paying attention to the special place where she had brought them
Sarah looked down and stopped, then called for their attention “Look, everyone We’re on a Mayan thoroughfare It’s a paved foot road” She stepped aside to let the journalists come forward to take pictures of the paveround, with its layer of whitish cobbles, but h the overgrowth That, she reflected, was all right too