She immediately got ashen faced, and hung up."Well, I tried calling the friend that built the suit. Friday, they cancelled the Special Projects depart...ent of their company and I was told that everyone was sent packing. My friend was so upset at losing his position that he worked himself into a stroke Saturday, and he's in a hospital and in a coma. He's the only person in the world I can think of that knows enough to help. You're stuck!"I was just overwhelmed with feelings. I am only 34, and now. "They both nodded."Pray tell, and for how long were you abandoned on this island, and however did you manage to quit it?" Constance asked with keen interest."Five years," he answered almost too softly for them to hear and his expression reflected what he was thinking, back onto something most horrific."Dear God!" Carmen exclaimed."Aye, five years of collecting rain water or drinking from the foul pond at its center and what victuals I could acquire from the sea and the few trees which were. Next thing you notice was that the mattress was not onlysix and one half feet long and three feet wide, but also a veryfirm 3" thick. All around the bed were rings and eyebolts. Built-inbelow the bed were drawers. On the wall at the head of the bed wasan intercom with several lights. Miss Susan's room was simply yet tastefully furnished.Against the outside wall between the two windows was the king-sizewaterbed. Above it was a mirrored canopy. Between the two doors onthe left wall was a. Not what those boys did to Jennifer."Keep her trap shut, we're passin' another bunch of beach houses," the tense voice of the older man driving spoke again."Boy, these people got beach houses that don't quit." You shut up, too. Everyone be quiet."Billy's hand tightened over Ellen's mouth, and she thought she was going to suffocate. Then her heart jumped into her throat and her breath stopped completely for one long tortuous moment as she realized that she might very well be killed if she didn't.