Dead Reckoning
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:10:01
But we don't want
Intelligence in this.

:10:05
I regret to say, sir, yes.
That's right, sir. I refuse.

:10:12
The last address Yale had for Preston
was a town I'd never heard of.

:10:18
Welcome to Gulf City, Mr. Murdock.
:10:21
Murdock...
Yes, a room is reserved for you.

:10:24
Nobody knew I was coming.
:10:26
- Warren Murdock, and from St. Louis.
- I don't get it, but I'll take it.

:10:32
It's our best. The gentleman
who telephoned insisted.

:10:35
- Then it's for me, all right.
- Front, boy.

:10:44
Geronimo, the paratroopers'jump call.
It was Johnny, all right.

:10:49
We could read each other's minds.
:10:52
He knew I'd want to help. He'd seen
me look at the back of his pin.

:11:02
Will call later, the message said.
:11:05
That was 10 hours ago.
How long is "later"?

:11:08
What to do in a hot wind, smelling
of jasmine except wait and sweat...

:11:13
... and prime the body to sweat more?
A phone directory might help.

:11:18
I'd never heard of Johnny
speak of any relatives...

:11:21
... but I was ready to try anything.
:11:25
"Prendergast, Prescott, Prestwood."
:11:28
Stalled again, like a jeep
on synthetic gas.

:11:34
48 hours since he'd called
and no word.

:11:37
I'd pitched the Cardinals
into the pennant...

:11:41
... and set the Red Sox down
in the World Series.

:11:44
Suddenly, Johnny's service record
came to me like a photograph.

:11:50
He'd enlisted October 11, 1943.
:11:53
Whatever jam he'd got in
must have been just before that.

:11:57
It might have made the papers.

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