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Leonard’s eye. The impact had caused Leonard to pull the trig- ger sending the bullet through his brain and the roof of the car. Tom continued to swing at Leonard’s body repeatedly with the pipe.
“Tom! Tom!” shouted Paul. “He’s dead. He can’t hurt us any- more.”
Tom dropped to his knees, bruised, tired, and breathing hard from the ordeal.
“We still have a lot of work to do,” he said. “Other lives need saving, and it will be dark soon.”
Paul helped Tom to his feet, and both men smiled at each other. He reached into the car and took the pistol from Leonard’s lifeless body and put it in his pants.
“We’ve got to get this car off the road and further into the woods so none of the other cars coming in will see it.”
“Tom, you’re hurt,” Paul said nervously.
“It’s nothing,” he said, favoring his right arm. “Just a few cuts from breaking a window. Help me get him out of the car.”
He grabbed the corpse by the coat and jerked him halfway through the broken window. Grabbing the corpse by the pants, he expelled it head first from the car.
“Never mind,” he said.
Afterwards, Tom entered the car from the opposite side, started the engine, backed away from the tree, and then drove deeper into the woods. Then he ran back to Paul while clutching a bush in one hand.
“We have to clean this glass up and hope the others don’t suspect anything. God I hope we are the first ones back.”
As they were spreading foliage, the two heard another car turn off onto the cabin road. Both started frantically shaking pine straw to cover the remaining debris. They hid behind a tree as the car closed in. Tom peeked around the tree first but didn’t recognize the car. He ran over to Paul and whispered, “That car isn’t one that belongs at the cabin. Holy cow! It might be our saviors!”
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