Ghosts of Florence Pass (4 page)

The partner wiped away David’s tears with the sleeve of a shirt that John Parker had put under his brother’s head for use as a pillow. He was finished with his work of connecting the intravenous fluid and they were ready to put David on the litter and carry him to the helicopter but they didn’t. Instead the partner looked at the man he had assigned to the plane and shook his head and the two rescuers looked in silence at each other for some time. As if in shock from thinking about what had happened on the mountain where John Parker and his mother and father and a pilot who was drunk had died.

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