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bridge was past them was anybody's guess.

Gray's Scouts had only advanced as far as one

block past the bridge, and were waiting there for the

convoy.

"It's for your own good, General," Jersey told

him.

"That's what my father used to say, just before he beat my

butt with a belt."

Little Jersey laughed at the expression on his

face, thinking: Yeah, and you probably deserved it,

too!

"As far as we go, General," the driver called.

"Scouts are signaling for us to halt."

"Good," Ben muttered. He banged his head on the

way out and was muttering curses as he walked

up to the Scouts, already in a confab with Dan Gray.

"J. F. Kennedy Boulevard is a real mess,"

Ben was told. "A squad just came back from

checking it out. Not worth the effort, at this time,

to clear it."

Ben looked at an old map. "Five-oh-one?"

"Scouts are only a block up now, General,"
Dan told him. "It's slow work."

"Any sign of life?"

"No, sir. Nothing. But lots of skeletons that

have been picked clean. Scouts report the bones