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One for the Road Summary
Booth watches Tookey close up the bar as he has done most every night for many years. Booth and Tookey are both widowers who have little to go home for and tonight a storm promises a cold as well as empty bed. Before they can leave, a man comes into the bar with obvious frost bite. The man was traveling with his family when he got their car stuck in a snow bank on the turn off to Jerusalem's Lot. Tookey and Booth both know that that road is never plowed because no one is crazy enough to want to go to Jerusalem's Lot. They also know the chances of finding the man's wife and daughter, whom he left in the car, still alive is almost none. They discuss getting help, but decide it would be quicker...
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This section contains 505 words (approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page) |