" I hear the door ding multiple times in a row and look up at the paramedics. A blonde lady kneels next to me. "Ma'am, we need you to move. You've don... a great job, but now we need to do ours." "No, I can't leave him. He'll die," I say and squeeze his hand, he's not squeezing back anymore. "Ma'am, please. I can't do my job unless you move. If you want me to save his life, I need you to back away." I look down at Damien and reluctantly let go of his hand. I stand up and I feel Lara grab my. Raising her hands, but remaining in her crouched position, she slowly turned a 360 degree circle. If they were watching, she wanted to be sure that they recognized her as one of the good guys.Feeling a little foolish, she lowered her arms and resumed her creep forward, cursing the lack of foresight that allowed them to leave that morning without an easier way to contact the men they had left in camp.Scanning the ground as she approached, she selected several small stones. When she was a mere. It wuzn't so easy ta see, but I managed that, too.The foreman had a file, an' he wuz workin' on the lock, tryin' ta cut it off with the file. It must of taken him nearly half an hour ta git the fool lock off soz he could open the lid of the strongbox. He opened the lid an' pulled out two cloth sacks what he opened an' dumped on the desk. Eagles and double-eagles tumbled an' rolled around on the desk. Abner an' the foreman began countin' the coins, an' the total came ta $640. Abner said, "Count. Feeling like you did, you must have tried or donesomething."There was a long silence, during which I sensed, but could not see,that Josh was staring at the ceiling, tears still flowing gently downhis cheeks. I heard him breathing and appear to struggle to speak. Ididn't speak again, I just waited for his response. Eventually hemanaged to talk to me again, although I could hear he was now cryingstrongly."I suppose I'd have been about twelve before I tried anything. I usedto watch gran go through.