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Bri he wits too relieved to huae she way 2: + sale. “Stay straag. We'll see you in about a week.” , An hour later Jack and Patty were on the © macy f freeway otlside Berkeley. They weee dressed * tn sperts chathes and carried tennis rackets a'y 2 pn the back ledes of their cae. Tennis rack- . —foocer’ somehow scenzed a perfect complenrent “ rn tu any wellemiannered disguise. They were” 4 Mil onty acrass the bay from the Hillsbor. - hit J oush mansian where she grew up. As far av - > a Rags hele’ £ 01g ‘a ord f Ty Aue erent * Jock knew this was the first time since her -’ F kidearping that Patty had becom away fram vey the SLA, He stepped the cae and awhwardly hezan a conversation he'd been rchearsing in his mind. : “Please don't take this thc wrong way, >" Dut I want you 10 keow thal Fai williag to * drive you ansa-here you want to go. You don't have 10 go to Pennsylvania. Pil take ~ 4 you ampwhere ...” “Ne s2 Patty leaked incredulous, She shifted into a corner of thy car farttest from Tack. 7 Hie swasn'l sure how ta interpret hee fear. 7 “You can yo anywhere you want," he eee > peated, arty : peate Wil QRS wa Slt bch wast to no where my Ficads are gol + MA TD Adee, UT aide Leute y A at 9 el 344 she Wil - dream ! had been outfitted in new clothes to heip them blend had into Middle America, Their hair Lad been neatly ion. trimmed and combed, The new disguises passed their vut of | first test with encouraging ease when Hill happened to | walk past ihe captain of the Oukjand puiice “Red » Squad." a unit set up to manitor Bay Area ratlicals, “T it new } almost feti over when TF saw him,” Hill told the others eunded J bck at the hidvout. “But he just glanced ot me and York « hepe sight on walking.” pation The next inajor problem was transportation. Too phon: . many wanted povicrs had been circulated to risk seit fore phaocs or trains. They would have to split up and “atavel by car. Till! and Fnvity would get rides from ‘we friends, Hur Jack would have tu chaulicur Patty. None of their ather frieady was willing to drive 3000 “aN aa Bullen with the mast fatnou, Fugilive in the country. ey Jack's curiosity guiweighed his fears. He wanted piofile answers ta the questions thet had heen nagping hin. Weak, | Whi dad Patty cunvericd to the SLA? Had she been * pethured? Or brdnwashed? Gr was she sill a bostice? She fil bees the most hostile te Scotts slemand that Abe tozitives disarar ayd sie liad yet te speak a drigndly Jo fwonl to him, Hut maybe thst was a ploy to fool the ‘ Harries, Gace [ree of them. she might want to return le fer parents and boyfriend, © Land) sod her excort belt on Fey night. ‘The fu- Pate eal Jack cpicionly. She was -reasty te holt if he turned the car toward © Hittshorourh, Jack's eavbarrassurent cashed across Wiis face, He ranmmed the pear shift. into first and silently resumed their journcy” - cast. . ; Paty stayed in her corner of the cas and © » held herself rigidly. as if waiting for Jack to sv apokegize. He offered small zalk, unwilling to concede her opinion that he had blen-*” dered ingacusably, ‘ : . ‘The tensian tuibling beiween them kept. .- «them bah awake. They were in Reaa before - - Jack suggested stopping for sleep. Patty - nodded assent. She stayed in the cat while .. o# 74 wad ! Jack regisicred for a niatel ream. : “, The rvom was furnisicd with only one bed. Pauty’, gave a wary glance to it and then to Jack. _ y “T don't waat you to get the wrong idea about me,” he tricd to reassure her. “] pot a room with one bed because we're cepistered as a married couple. But “ 1 don’t want you to think you have to have sex with me. [n fact, F dan’t think we should have sea. | don't’ wank you te feel later that you were coerced in any. wavy, ATT bike is to have a ware body next to me.” The hardoess around Patty's mouth softened and: she semiledd fer the fest time sinee he'd met ber. “Doa’s worry abut il, my not inte sex with anyhady right . now, [ loved Cujy too much, , ..” Cujo Willie Wolfe —had ben killed in Lox Angeles. They weat to bed © exhausted wad fell inte an uneasy sleep. The nxt day Pally aly ber meals ig the car. Even standing in bas ata MecDanald's wos a risk, Millions — had sesn hee picture on the evening news und the cover af Mewaweed of beard her salt, distinctive voice op nidiv bromcaas of the SEA conmmuniques. Var most of the previous four montis she hag been cunped up inside. Her excursiany outside twice had ended in gunfire, Now shy was driving acres country > Jtbrough an FDI dragnet that already had ensployed 7 more ugents than any other civilian case, |e ‘