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But hello, my dear, good to see you again. And
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what's that? Oh no, no, no, don't mind him. Do you
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ever long for a time long since past, a part
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of your life that babies no longer prudent? You See,
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I was a sailor once upon a time. Some days
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so desperately misses the water, water, the ocean, the sound
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of the earth, rocky rock you to sleep, the water,
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beckoning to go to sleep forever. So tonight I've brought
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you another piece of scary I think you'll enjoy, called
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blood Waters. Oh so sit down, I'll make you a
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cup of tea, and let's go sailings together together.
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Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
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of romantic adventure, I want to get away from it all.
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We offer you.
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Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
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of today for a half hour of high adventure.
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You are drifting along the muddy reaches of the South
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American River. You're diving gear in readiness the air come going.
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Yet you know that in the murky depths below you,
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waiting in the slime therefo you, is a mortal enemy
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from whom there may be no escape.
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Listen now, as escape brings you Tony Barrett's story Bloodwaters.
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They take you up slowly, always slowly.
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Even in a nothing job like this one, a harbor
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bottom dive at a beginner and laugh at. I kicked
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away from the heavy pilings harder than I had to,
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and I knew I was trying to dull my mind again,
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not to think about it, trying to sell myself the
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same old story that a diver should couldn't care where
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he works because the job's always the same. There's something
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down there, they want it, you get it, period. But
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it didn't work too well. The story was wearing thin.
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There. You know you want to suit off or you
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want to rest for us, rest from what a fifty
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foot dive get me out of the suit?
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You see?
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Perhaps the man knows best.
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Trance murdocht a fifty foot dive can be dangerous, but
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then danger never bothered you did it?
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What are you doing here, Murdoch? What do you want?
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Does an old friend have to want something? I'm not
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interested in any of your deals. Really. With this job finished,
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then nothing else inside. I'm busy, Murdac beat it. No
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curiosity trend, not so much as a what are you doing?
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In a I was taken hole in Argentina. You never
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were much at small talk, will you you're buy Murdoc?
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Wait a minute, take your hand off me by the rush?
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Where are you going? You know it all? You tell me?
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All right? I will. What you do between now and
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tonight does not matter.
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But at nine o'clock I shall expect you at the
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cafe to rondo promptly. And if I don't come, then
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you are afford not to come, Trent, it still takes money
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to live, even down here.
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I will see you at nine o'clock.
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You've been talking for an hour now, murderach, you haven't
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said anything.
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Get to it. You have no social graces. Pity trend?
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How would you like never to have to get into
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diving gear again? To be rich, really rich, to have
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everything you ever wanted? I had everything I wanted once?
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You remember that, don't your Murdoch?
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How long have you been away from the States trend?
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What's that got to do with it? Hello? Three years?
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Three thinking years? And don't you want to go back now?
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I like working jungle holes like this. I like fifty
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foot dock site dives with Native boys that fall asleep
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on the pumps while you're down there? What are you
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building fortune for both of us? What do you want
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this time?
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My right eye? Can't you forget what happened? Can you?
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You're being stupid. You're out of your territory down here, Murdoch,
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so talking nice to me? Look, Trent. In two months
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we can both walk out of here with more money
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than you ever dreamed. Or I don't dream anymore? Goal, Trent?
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If I told you how much you would think me mad?
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You want to give me half? You will learn it
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by diving? Yes?
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Did I say something humorous? So you fell for the
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national industry?
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Don't you know?
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There's a peddler on every corner down here selling maps
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of sunken treasure.
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I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch is a tourist.
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And now do you want to hear what I have
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to say? Say your peace? Did you ever hear of
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the ground Chucko's rebellion? Ah, Maria, my dear May I
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present or Trent paul Is Maria Sandoval reader n Maria
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something to drink? You said something about a rebellion forty
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years ago? To be exact, Olivia and Paraguay were.
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At each other's throats it's in the history books.
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I didn't know you were a reader murder. The Paraguarians
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were getting the worst of it, so they loaded a
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small boat, the Santa Rosa, with millions in gold for.
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Shipping up the Paragua River. It was to go to
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Brazil for safe keeping. Well after the boat left where
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Topinas go. It was never seen again, nor was the
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goals storm. They never even found survivors. Besides, where would
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they look? Have you had the idea of the length.
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Of the Paraguay River?
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Two governments can't find the gold? But you can't?
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That is correct, I can. What do you got charts
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better than that? What?
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Then?
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You said before that they never found survivors. I did.
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The only one interested Trench.
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I don't want any part of you, Murdoch, now or anytime,
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So get off my back.
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Don't you realize what I'm offering you. I understand this.
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It's over.
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I'm through with you and your schemes and I'm not
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running anymore. Get that through your head, your fat slide.
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You listen to me three years ago. I listened to
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you three years down in this sinkhole.
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Is what I got for it? Three years you foul, filthy.
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Fit I'm going to cut you a new throw the trouble.
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I don't know how long it lasted, how many times
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I hit him, trying to pay him back for the
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lonely years. But finally it was over finished, and I
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was back at the waterfront again, tasting the soft breeze
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coming in from the sea. You know.
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Your trin.
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What do you want? Oh, Maria, isn't it?
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See Maria, I'm.
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Sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch.
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He's all right now. Besides, I have seen Man five before.
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Yeah, I'm sure you have. You always follow the winner.
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Anger forces words. The tongue does not want to say.
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My name is Trend not Murdoch.
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Plain enough, I know your name, Sinna. Oh there is
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a scrutch on your cheeks, in her a little blood.
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Let me a woman knows how, senor?
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Senor?
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Is that the way you kiss Murdoch?
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Rise, Polito, the younger is still there and.
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It shouldn't be not after that? Who were you really kissing, Maria?
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Mir or him? What do you want the gold? Murdoch?
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Everybody wants something, it's yours.
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I want you to come with me, sin No more, Polito, huh,
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please come with me please, I'll show you what I want.
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She turned and moved away without everyone's looking back, so
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she was sure i'd follow her.
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She was right.
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The shack she led me to is less than a
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half mile away, no different than any of the others
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around it.
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She turned to look at me once as she opened
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the door, and her eyes were a thousand years old.
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She little lamp, and I looked where she was pointing.
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He lay on a bed in the corner, a little Portuguese,
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maybe fifty, cackling softly to himself, as though he knew
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a joke that nobody else would ever know. His hair
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was pure white, the kind that comes from too much terror,
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too much shock. And then I saw his hands, from
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fingertips to elbows. They were a mass of little scars,
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ugly needle like scars that spoke of some past moment
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of horror.
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We moved closer, but he never.
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Looked, just sat crooning softly to a bottle of whiskey
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cradled in his arm.
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Maria, who is he?
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Have you never seen a man who has lost his
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mind to feel?
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Lucuel? For he is such a one.
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Who is he? Htoria? He thought? He?
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Have you seen enough? Seener? Is he my father? What
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is left of him?
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How did it happen? Maria?
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You have already been told. My dog spoke truth tonight
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when he told it the survivor from the Santa ROSSA.
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Later, as we sat staring out at the water, she
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told me all of it.
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And it wasn't hard to follow.
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An old man driven insane by terror, who clung to
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Murdoch because Murdoch kept him in whiskey, the one thing
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that pushed.
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The terror away for a while, very neat and tidy,
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the Murdoch touch.
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You understand now?
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Yeah?
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What do you want me to do, Maria? Make the
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trip with Murdoch as his diver? Is that what you want?
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My father is a child. Now Murdak will lose him.
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Then that's all you wanted from the beginning. Isn't it
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for me to be a watch dog?
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He is my father?
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Yeah? I never asked you're going along?
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See?
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Can I go?
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All right, Maria, I'll dive for Murdoch.
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Oh grass, it's all right. Gratitude for your father, No,
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not this time, kidding, This time for me.
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Murdoch was all sweetness and light. Next morning when I
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told him he had a.
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Diver, you just sworn we were old buddies.
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He balked at only one thing, my wanting to take
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along Jose, the kid who'd handled pumps for me on
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the harbor job. But I wasn't about to do any
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diving without somebody I trusted handling lines.
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But I didn't like it. But he couldn't afford argue.
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Jose turned out to be a real good investment before
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we ever got started that night. As a matter of fact,
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any oh, you finish out.
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Jose or finish it off? You watch him creak the
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gear I did myself. I should have known.
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Thanks, you know how well? You know the enter murder
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too well?
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Why well, come on, O say what is it?
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While I was taking care of the gear, he was
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getting there the missiles.
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How this permits government permits for the interior.
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See see, you're supposed to name all the people that
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go I know that.
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What about it?
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I saw the papers on your Well it's every name
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there except yours. I see. But why why does he
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do a thing like that? You know what reason to
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say it?
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Explain later? Okay, Murdoch's got it all figured out.
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I'll say, I still do not understand. Why are you
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not on that list.
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It's real simple.
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A man who doesn't make a trip can't be expected
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to come back from it.
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You are listening to Blood Waters tonight's presentation of Escape.
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Millions in Asia living on inadequate diets and additional millions
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in pre Europe fighting for post war recovery are the beneficiaries.
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When you give to Care c Are send a ten
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dollars care package or the six ninety five budget package
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for further details, right Care New York. That's Care New York,
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and now Escape and the second act of Blood Waters.
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It's a thing you got to see to believe, a
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thing that exists. Every foot of the length of Argentina.
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Had a couple of hours inland from the coast, and
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you've gone back a thousand years. Nothing but jungle. Jungle
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is so thick and green, you can travel a full
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day without ever once getting a glimpse of sunlight. Bad
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enough anyway you try it, but doing it Murdoch's way
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was the worst. Murdoch a gold hungry, penny pinching man
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who hadn't hired enough bearers, who skimped on food, and
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who hated every minute wasted on rest. Maria took it well,
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quiet for the most part, her eyes never far from Sandoval.
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The old man was pathetic, shambling along, falling off and.
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Uncaring and never hearing.
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There was only one sound that mattered in his world,
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the cork coming out of the bottle. And Murdoch was
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master at the bottle. Four days of it, four stinking,
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crawling days, and on the morning of the fifth we
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came out of it. Stood there looking out at the
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Paraguay River. The gold was showing in Murdoch's eyes.
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Again, look at the trend. Beautiful, isn't it. It's a river,
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That's all it is. It's been a long walk word
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to now three days up river. Do you have any objections?
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You're footing the bill and you should remember that to
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check out the supplies while I make our agements for
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the boat. Don't you want me to take a look
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at the boat before you make a deal. Make sure
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you get a good winch you'll have a short memory, trend.
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I'd say I'm fairly capable of making deals, wouldn't you.
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You just make sure the bearers don't steal anything when
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they leave. I take care of that for you, Cino,
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and thanks as a and keep an eye on the
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old manor, Maria.
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You are right.
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See I'm so grateful for your kid, for what, for everything, everything, plipo.
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You take care with Murdoch. He's a dangerous man.
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Yeah, yeah, Now listen to me. From here on, it's
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going to be different, different. We'll all be in a
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small boat for days, maybe weeks. I won't always be
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around because of the diving. Here take the gun, Just
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take it and hope you don't have to use it.
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A couple of hours later, Murdach came back and waved
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us down to the river. Instead of being alone, now
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he had a native with him, a big man, he
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called but two, A lot of men. Even through the
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paint on his face, you could see the combination of
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Mayan and Inca, the thousand year old dignity as he
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stood looking at us.
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This is but two.
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I've just arranged for the boat, and he's going to
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uprovote us to help with the loading.
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But two.
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But to.
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What are we taking him for? Murdoch? He wants to
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go up river to his people, and he will work
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for his passage.
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We can use him, you keep adding, people, somebody's gonna
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have to swim alongside any much.
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Of a boat. No, Trent. There's no time to be
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at each other's throats. I know we are on the
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right track.
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Sain Deval started getting excited the moment he saw this
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spot of the river. For a guy in his condition,
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you're doing a lot of depending on him.
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You'll let me worry about that.
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All you have to do is handle your end of things,
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and that won't begin until we start diving.
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You're wrong, Murdoch. I started worrying three years ago.
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Remember two days on the river, Two long days with
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Murdoch never once taking his eyes off Sandobal, watching each
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slightest reaction, the bottle always ready, and the old man
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needed that bottle now, his terror growing by the minute,
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and Murdoch loving it because it told him we were
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getting closer. That night, I was laying out my gear
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back in the stern when but two, the big native
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came toward me. He wasn't a calm giant anymore, just
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a man, a terrified man with words tumbling out of
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his mouth.
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You tell Batou, you tell tell you what about crazy.
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Man, crazy sand of arrow? Or what about him hands
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the scars? You mean, how did he get him?
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Yeah?
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I don't know what happened to his hands. But what
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about him? Why you come here to dive to bring
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from the water? Why no? Not going water?
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No?
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Why not? What's wrong? Not go devil water?
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Devil water?
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You not going devil water?
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And that's all I could get out of him just then.
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It was a long time before I got to sleep
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that night. Late on the third day, we dropped anchor
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just outside a small coal Murdoch was out of his
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mind with excitement, but it was too dark for diving.
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We'd start in the morning, but Two wanted to go
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ashore to see his people. Swore he'd be back before
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sun up. Murdoch didn't like it, but he had no choice.
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We needed the big man on pumps in the morning.
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We were up at dawn and but Two was back aboard.
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He didn't say much. He was never moren a couple
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of feet away from me, and his eyes never left me.
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But I didn't have time to think about it. I
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had my own troubles. Let's take you so long tread
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were you and your penny pension? You've been had Murdoch wrong?
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But not a thing except this winch is on.
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Its last leg. Well, let's not argue repair it. The
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best you can talk cheap. But I'm the guy who
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goes down there. Listen to me, Trent.
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We're close, really close.
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Son de Velsers's right beneath us. He has to be right.
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He's pointed out landmarks all the way. Wait a minute, that.
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It's native drums and probably a welcome you get that
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shoot close trends.
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We're losing time.
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You'll remember what.
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I say about the clear lines down there cinema, I'll remember.
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And don't you forget rocks. Look on the shore.
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Natives, six or seven of them.
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It's part of Buttoo's track.
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What's that they carry? It looks like a pig or
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a goat and the throat is cut.
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What is it?
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But what are they doing? Make sacrifice to river God?
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But why? Now? Save you from what? What's down there?
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A native superstition? Tran, where's your intelligence? Are you ready?
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But too you not staying water along got on the beach.
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They heard his command, and the pig was thrown into
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the river. A moment later, Jose had bolted my helmet
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in place, and I was being lowered over the side
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of the boat. Everything was forgotten. Now the work is
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staying alive. That's how it is with diving. You can
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do it a thousand times, but it's always new. Jose
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knew it through the fall, and I could hear him
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worrying with me. You're right, yeah, read me see you
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live in photos.
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Stay with me. I'm gonna have a little ock around.
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I checked my lines and started toward a large mass
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of shadow distances underwater. Fool you, and I was on
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it almost before I started. It was a ship, or
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what was left of one. Her back had been broken
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in two and her stern was right in front of me.
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I read it aloud, Santa Rosa.
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What's that sin?
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I found it, Start a line down.
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He's walid, you're here, It's fine.
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I went in carefully, slowly, making sure of my lines.
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It didn't take me twenty minutes to find it. A
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tremendous iron bound chest. I scratched the slime off with
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my knife and there it was the official seal of Paraguay.
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There wasn't any doubt now what was inside.
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I got a line around it, told them which way
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to swing the winch, and managed to get it out
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in the clear for the trip up.
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I just about finished when I felt a signal on
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my lines.
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What is it?
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Bato? Says, to get up here quick.
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You've been down too long.
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Why Fridge, this is Murdoch. Let's get to go on
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the first at the moment.
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Won't hurt you.
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It's gonna take chances on the pout line. Let's not
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take chances on me. Tell us a to take me up.
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The gore comes first. Turn clear trench, Murdoc. Listen, my
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knife is across the line. You turn that winch and
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I'll cut the line.
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You hear me, I could cut your hair hose. Go on,
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cut it. I'm tired of living with you on my
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back anyway.
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Oh all right, Trent, all right, now, don't get excited.
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We we're taking you up slowly.
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They began taking me up, and then I realized why
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Murdoc knew once I started up, I couldn't possibly cut
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the line that held the chest.
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He took me up just far enough.
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To get my hands on the bottom rung of the
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Jacob's ladder and hang there helplessly. Then through the phones,
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I could hear the creak of the winch as he
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started hauling up the chest. Looking up through the water,
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I could see Murdoch leaning over the rail as he
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waited for the chest. To break water. And then it happened,
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sudden sharp sting on my hand. From when I looked,
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I saw blood, blood, and a six inch fish racing
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in for another fight.
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In a second, there.
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Were more of them, little needle tooth devils, plunging at
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the canvas suit, even trying to bite through the steel
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of the helmet to get at the flesh inside. And
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at last I understood everything. Why but two called it
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devil water, Why sandraval had gone insane? And what happened
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to the crew of the Santa Rosa. That six inch
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fish was the South American Piranha, a cannibal so deadly
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it strips a man to the bone in thirty seconds.
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Then I heard something else. The winch. Murdoch had been
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driving it too fast, even for a good winch. It
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started to crumple just as the chest broke water.
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Murdoch saw the chest, inches from his hand start slipping back,
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and the thought of losing the gold drove increasy.
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He glabbed for it.
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Even as the chest pulled him down past me. He
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was still holding onto it, even as the piranha left
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me to strip easier pickings than steal and canvas. He
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held onto it, and I knew he'd never let go.
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How could he hadn't The gold pulled in halfway around
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the world and then climbed out of the water to
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get him.
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Under the direction of Norman McDonald, Escape has Brought You
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Bloodwaters by Tony Barrett, starring Vic Perrin. Featured in the
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cast were Jack Krusian, Lillian Bayath, Tony Barrett, and Barney Phillips.
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You're an Answer, George Walsh. The special music for Escape
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is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
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Next week, you.
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Are one of four people trapped in an isolated trading
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post somewhere in the Yukon Territory, the blizzard outside making
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escape impossible. And you know that before the spring thaws
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release you, before you can leave this cabin behind you,
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one of your companions, by consent of the others, will
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be killed.
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So listen next week when Escape brings you Less Crutchfield Sorry.
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Judgment Day at Cripple Deer. Every weekday, for ninety solid minutes,
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Arthur Godfrey Time presents that redhead himself, coming up with
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one surprise after another. And every Friday night on most
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of these same CBS radio stations, we take the top surprises,
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the Loss, the Bellungs, the biggest laughs out of the
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daytime shows, and grew them together into a big once
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a week treat. Tomorrow night, don't miss the Arthur Godfrey
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Digest at the Star's Address. Daytime is a Gay Time
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with Arthur Godfrey Time on the CBS Radio Network. A.
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Well, it didn't quite make me feel like a skipper again,
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but I sure I am happy you sat here and
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listened to it with me. Something about fear makes you
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feel so alive, doesn't it. Well, I would assume you agree.
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You're always here every night along with me, enjoying another
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terrifying tale, and I must say I'm glad to share
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it with you. Just use and mean and me and
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the airway. Ah, yes, the airways, the waves that go
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on and on and on. In fact, in some ways
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I'm still at sea right now, wave after way over
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the air all. But I'm getting caught up to myself again.
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I think it's about time for you to head home
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before the sun comes up and I have to go
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back to wherever it is I come from. So get
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into your comfort bad get comforting, and remember be thankful
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