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scenario. He listened carefully while Madden roared through the hastily constructed plan, questioning where appropriate, confirming when he thought we were on the right track. |
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Madden considered time to be our biggest enemy. The longer the creatures had Johnson and Hall, the less likely we were to find either of them alive. I didn't tell him that as far as I was concerned, the moment the two men became captives their chances of survival were next to nothing. |
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Gregory was dispatched to Caleb's marina with instructions to round up a specific list of suppliesheavy nylon rope to be used for scaling, cotton rope, pulleys, tackle and four one-gallon containers of gasoline. B.C. was hustled off to Palmer's market for flashlight batteries, empty milk bottles, work gloves and matches. My assignment was a little more complicated. I had to gain access to Clayton's Hardware, locate some kerosene lanterns, heavy duty snaps, two utility tool belts and anything else that looked as though it might come in handy in exploring caves. All of this left Jake with the task of rounding up additional ammunitiona flare pistol, two more revolvers and the department's two 40-channel hand held units with boom mikes. |
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That left the big man with one final choredetermining who was going with him, that is, besides Gregory and yours |
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