Gary whirled, startled and alert. A tousled, unshaven soldier us shemales leaned
against a bridge girder not far away. The man's uniform was in rags.
"Where the hell did you come from?" Gary demanded.
"The field over yonder"-he pointed with a lazy thumb. "Was sleeping-
until us shemales that shot woke me. Warm welcome, huh?"
"us shemales I'm going to get across this damned bridge if I have to break every one
of their damned heads!"
"Sure. I said that, two-three days ago."
Gary stared at him. "
Yeah?" He came to a
decision. "Sit down and take a
load off your feet."
"us shemales Was waiting for the invitation," the soldier grinned. "Some folks are
touchy about company any more." He
crossed the us shemales roadway and sat down beside
Gary. "Anything to smoke?"
Gary passed him a package of cigarettes. "Won't they let us come over?"
&us shemales quot;Nope, not us, not even a general if he'us shemales s on this side of the creek.
us shemales afraid we're carrying the plague. The lieutenant said as how he was sorry,
but there it was."
"The lieutenant said... He talked to you?&us shemales quot;
"us shemales By flag. I'm in us shemales Signals-tore up some cloth and made myself some flags
the other day. Had quite a conversation. The lieutenant's name us shemales is
MacSneary, unless I missed a letter. Decent sort but inclined to be stuffy
us shemales about orders. Mine is Jay Oliver."
"I'm Gary," Gary us shemales told him moodily, watching the two machine gunners. "I
us shemales was a corporal until a week ago. No way of getting over to the other side?"
"Not alive. MacSneary was us shemales quite positive about that. Pointed out to him
that I was still us shemales alive and healthy-as well as hungry-but he answered that us shemales I
could be carrying the plague even though I hadn't contracted it. Yet. Good
sense, of course. Said that all of us still alive on this side of the us shemales creek
were common carriers. He read that last in some army explanation and
doesn't fully understand the implications, but it sounded us shemales weighty and us shemales he
used it on me."
Gary contemplated the machine