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A wt that could bey EiMgtes sad mere rationally when he reached Une East Coast. “The erticial thing is that f get out there.” Rl paused. “It would he a great help and cide with me.” Javk’s anver had cooled. if you could come back : “on ety Wo. Tan? and Go. | EM aad ones Omeen for + a finished, then nodded * _ phew. fhe ke er . + ta rae me tae three sma ponds vhay say 100 yards belung ye he: in thick stenrds of altalfa pand timetby prt Ag avin windadll cuit had buen aed? to circulate ii thromrh the potas wis the only * Surviving testament to the experiment. The ies atl “had been fisted out: the funitives found only bill- V heads and a hew uadersized pickerel. Hut that served te make the farny more isolated, t fishermen never bothered with the weedy ponds. ‘The few oneterats whe humped past the house were intro- spective farmers who lived down the dusty road out ? of sight and earshot. © The hone abo was ideal. From the outside it ‘Youned tall and weathered. Dirty white paint peeled onto waist-hizh weeds that nearty hid an old and temperamental water tank. On the sec: ond floor was a balcony with a wrought-iron railing. Below was 4 sercened in porch with hanging lap where cs enings could be spent listening to the litany of frogs and crickels. Inside were four bedrooms, a kitchen, 3 living room, dining room and attic-—-an ¢x- -}~--panaive layout_for. three peaple who'd been sleeping on floors in cramped apartinents.” WOR fe gS eink! Mornings brought rich sunrises ficoding ed OSCG as aa Bey over the Pocono Mountains, driving the q a) 4.2 x a black fies and mosquitoes into the shade of im, 3 ts al 4 FES i ge a clump of trees that bordered the rear of sitting nest to Patty. But if Bill were caught. they'd : all be in trouble. “PI be there as soon as | can.” Jack fiew to Berke- ley and borrowed a car. Bill and Jack opted for a southern route below the ' Rockies and across the Great Plains. They posed . as a gay coupic. On the hack jedue were the same i tennis racktts that Jack und Patty had carried a week ' pefore—he had brought them west agsin in his suit- | Case. ' Jack found himvelf enjoying the second trip much | more than the first. The two men had common tnter- ‘ ests, had played sports und coukf tik without rhe- the@ chance he'd be recornized. They ate together in restaurants and at one point chanyved a Slat tire for an old couple stopped by the side of the highw2y. Their only tense moment came in Indiana near Bill's hometown. They were standing in Tine at the ) cath register of a roadside cafe when a phalanx of cho is first 1 y crste highway patrolnen gol up fron: a nearhy tubic and uppeared lo canserge oD them. Bill hurriedly walked out, Ieaving behind his coffec- to-go und an extremely rcrvous companion. Jack quickly paid the bill and raced after Bill, But the ——— - . : * . -' . ws : . ? Po. Ee 33 + ae! en ; tee ers Rt ar sss! = wR. pe fe ey tet rar APY set “a no eee = ‘ Pea Rem SC I «2057 Se Sats Hig nt S i a oye, = : * oe = . ’ Nad telat gt a Th ” gates ee eat ee a a PD: torical interference. Rill was not as preoceupicd by, ita Ten. 6 ns an on eS Hashes: & eo os ‘ , guitar * sy es . liens ame Noa SER rw .! . -. aot Bia oe the fugitives were three white-bellicd the farm. By caidmvorning out fying in the sun like spent tong hours on a grassy hummock. The r Harrises adapted to the sun more slowly. th Within days, however, all! three were a crimson brown, _ wre The Pennsylvania summer scemed to re- are ‘a 7 ot Fane 2 as ee fax and rejuvenate the fugitives. They read up * Y . so . then went sunning and swimming, chasing cad - han F252 ne agiqagary enh hate each viher into the water. Trey picked wid ; J ack v wit HS wad ZEyOY ESE blackberries from bushes growing across the AOS, 3 bad ad road and dropped hook and line in search of ned fine Sez Stg03 EYRE RA ed Rregre. the scavenger fish they grew to like cooked “hue a with butter and onions. xed t % AR ~ H od 242 * 2 Bill carefully instructed Patty how to au ca 79 Men 1a COMMMROI haa avoid 2 bulihead’s spiny fins of a pickerel’s oa . 4 : 7 A ~ fearsame teeth when tearing them off a hook. ds Leres iS hag miayeu SECTS Sanu Bur Patty gicefully ignored the advice and niplt ~ . grabbed them barchanded, shrugems off the was 3 tei 4-33 ethene eisantany resulting cuts and bites, When one bullhead > be- CGii ceuisS «Wis: EGUe & RetoE ze. fell off her hook, she lurched headiong intq her ——————— the pond after it. Patty's feistincss amazed the others. She > Throughout Jack's nerves were Mill on edgc from four days of | was the first to try skiony-dipping in the muddy ' pands, The others + from the water i thing bit me,” he yelped. | One of the watersnukes in 1 “f think you're going to live,” smiled your fucking days may be numbered.” “I'd like to sce you go in there now,” came back his taunt, Suddenly their bantering was interrupted: Patty laughed, slipped off her clothes and jumped into the pand. During childhood summers at her family’s estates Patty had icarned to like snakes. Now when- ever she'd find one curled up behind the farmhouse she'd pick it up to show the gthers. But no one else wed touch them. In their politica} study sessions were Paity’s mentors. “Tania is 3 had joined in until Bill emerged one day clutching his penis. “Some- “And Christ dees it hurt.” Emily and Micki i Afichi. “But she’s sult Iearning.” The Iwo older women | became che. Sometimes they'd have long conversa- | tions about feminism white sitting on the kitchen floor i Urinking collec, Micki confided that she'd felt a litle ; jealous when Jack was traveling across country with j a woman she had not then met. Emily replied that she snd Bill tried not to be so possessive of cach other. They were working it out intellcctually, she said, but “ak fa nis . base an ? at bass tossed on the banks of the ponds. Patty - the pond had nipped him. « Emily, “But, sisier,’ Emily told © ne