Purpose of Evasion
“He was in an unfamiliar bed, an IV sticking into his arm, the suffocating smells of illness filling his head.
Two security guards, making their morning rounds of the train yards, had found him—he was blue from the cold and naked, save for a torn T-shirt and a pair of skivvies. The derelicts had picked him clean: flight suit, boots, watch, dogtags, tape recorder, and wallet.
The guard with the metal chevrons pinned to his black cableknit returned to the security office at the gate, scooped up th...e phone, and dialed 999, London’s toll-free emergency number.
A short time later, a white ambulance, its blue roof flasher glowing eerily in the ground fog, came racing down Leyton Road. The clumsy-looking van went round the eighteen-wheelers queued at the entrance to the yards and across the flyover that bridged the expanse of tracks, continuing to where Shepherd had been found.
Shepherd was taken to The London Hospital on Mile End Road. The dreary buildings of soot-blackened brick were well suited to the tough East End neighborhood, which had been terrorized by Jack the Ripper a century before.MoreLess
Two security guards, making their morning rounds of the train yards, had found him—he was blue from the cold and naked, save for a torn T-shirt and a pair of skivvies. The derelicts had picked him clean: flight suit, boots, watch, dogtags, tape recorder, and wallet.
The guard with the metal chevrons pinned to his black cableknit returned to the security office at the gate, scooped up th...e phone, and dialed 999, London’s toll-free emergency number.
A short time later, a white ambulance, its blue roof flasher glowing eerily in the ground fog, came racing down Leyton Road. The clumsy-looking van went round the eighteen-wheelers queued at the entrance to the yards and across the flyover that bridged the expanse of tracks, continuing to where Shepherd had been found.
Shepherd was taken to The London Hospital on Mile End Road. The dreary buildings of soot-blackened brick were well suited to the tough East End neighborhood, which had been terrorized by Jack the Ripper a century before.MoreLess
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