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There
was
something
in
his
tone
.
"
Have
you
ever
flown
one
?
"
asked
Coker
.
"
No
,
"
admitted
the
radioman
,
"
but
I
reckon
there
’
d
not
be
a
lot
to
it
,
once
you
got
the
knack
.
"
"
H
’
m
,
"
said
Coker
,
looking
at
him
with
reserve
.
Stephen
recalled
the
locations
of
two
R
.
A
.
F
.
stations
not
far
away
,
and
that
there
had
been
an
air
-
taxi
business
operating
from
Yeovil
.
In
spite
of
our
doubts
,
the
radioman
was
as
good
as
his
word
.
He
seemed
to
have
complete
confidence
that
his
instinct
for
mechanism
would
not
let
him
down
.
After
practicing
for
half
an
hour
,
he
took
the
helicopter
off
and
flew
it
back
to
Charcott
.
For
four
days
the
machine
hovered
around
in
widening
circles
.
On
two
of
them
Coker
observed
;
on
the
other
two
I
replaced
him
.
In
all
,
we
discovered
ten
little
groups
of
people
.
None
of
them
knew
anything
of
the
Beadley
party
,
and
none
of
them
contained
Josella
.
As
we
found
each
lot
,
we
landed
.
Usually
they
were
in
twos
and
threes
.
The
largest
was
seven
.
They
would
greet
us
in
hopeful
excitement
,
but
soon
,
when
they
found
that
we
represented
only
a
group
similar
to
their
own
,
and
were
not
the
spearhead
of
a
rescue
party
on
the
grand
scale
,
their
Interest
would
lapse
.
We
could
offer
them
little
that
they
had
not
got
already
.
Some
of
them
became
irrationally
abusive
and
threatening
in
their
disappointment
,
but
most
simply
dropped
back
into
despondency
.
As
a
rule
they
showed
little
wish
to
join
up
with
other
parties
and
were
inclined
rather
to
lay
hands
on
what
they
could
,
building
themselves
into
refuges
as
comfortably
as
possible
while
they
waited
for
the
arrival
of
the
Americans
,
who
were
bound
to
find
a
way
.
There
seemed
to
be
a
widespread
and
fixed
idea
about
this
.
Our
suggestions
that
any
surviving
Americans
would
be
likely
to
have
their
hands
more
than
full
at
home
was
received
as
so
much
wet
-
blanketry
.
The
Americans
,
they
assured
us
,
would
never
have
allowed
such
a
thing
to
happen
in
their
country
.
Nevertheless
,
and
in
spite
of
this
Micawber
fixation
on
American
fairy
godmothers
,
we
left
each
party
with
a
map
showing
them
the
approximate
positions
of
groups
we
had
already
discovered
,
in
case
they
should
change
their
minds
and
think
about
getting
together
for
self
-
help
.
As
a
task
,
the
flights
were
far
from
enjoyable
,
but
at
least
ey
were
to
be
preferred
to
lonely
scouting
on
the
ground
.
However
,
at
the
end
of
the
fruitless
fourth
day
it
was
decided
to
abandon
the
search
.
