Nobody did one maybe not just like this.
Sure.
They must have.
I wish they would come now, he said.
I wish they would come right now because the leg is starting to hurt now.
It must be the swelling.
We were going awfully good when that thing hit us, he thought.
But it was only luck it didn't come while I was under the bridge.
When a thing is wrong something's bound to happen.
You were bitched when they gave Golz those orders.
That was what you knew and it was probably that which Pilar felt.
But later on we will have these things much better organized.
We ought to have portable short wave transmitters. _Yes, there's a lot of things we ought to have_.
I ought to carry a spare leg, too.
He grinned at that sweatily because the leg, where the big nerve had been bruised by the fall, was hurting badly now.
Oh, let them come, he said.
I don't want to do that business that my father did.
I will do it all right but I'd much prefer not to have to.
I'm against that.
Don't think about that.
Don't think at all.
I wish the bastards would come, he said.
I wish so very much they'd come.
His leg was hurting very badly now.
The pain had started suddenly with the swelling after he had moved and he said, Maybe I'll just do it now.
I guess I'm not awfully good at pain.
Listen, if I do that now you wouldn't misunderstand, would you? _Who are you talking to?_ Nobody, he said.
Grandfather, I guess.
No.
Nobody.
Oh bloody it, I wish that they would come.
Listen, I may have to do that because if I pass out or anything like that I am no good at all and if they bring me to they will ask me a lot of questions and do things and all and that is no good.
It's much best not to have them do those things.
So why wouldn't it be all right to just do it now and then the whole thing would be over with?
Because oh, listen, yes, listen, _let them come now_.
You're not good at this, Jordan, he said.
Not so good at this.
And who is so good at this?
I don't know and I don't really care right now.
But you are not.
That's right. You're not at all.
Oh not at all, at all.
I think it would be all right to do it now?
Don't you?
_No, it isn't_.
Because there is something you can do yet.
As long as you know what it is you have to do it.
As long as you remember what it is you have to wait for that. _Come on.
Let them come.
Let them come.