The MPs could liberate themselves before they perished. If they could not get loose, the provost marshal would come looking for them, in due course. Embarrassing for the poor devils… Oscar grinned contentedly, though the hum of laminations, and the biting of the rays made him drowsy, so that the grin sagged at the corners. His final perception was the softness of Diane’s hair, and the roundness of her body…
* * * *
When the MPs regained consciousness, they faced a struggle. They had been expertly tied. For hours, they alternated in praying for the arrival of a search party, and being grateful that none had come to seek them. During their rest periods, they cursed each other, and themselves. Again, they planned the yarn that would account for their absence, or account reasonably for Oscar’s escape; the marks he had left on them would make explanations difficult.
Late that night, they got loose. They drank from the garden hose, then collapsed from exhaustion. Dawn awakened them. Aching and stiff, they could barely crawl. Finally, having regained control of their limbs, they drew their guns and went into the house.
They were still too muddled to realize that if Oscar had intended remaining, he would have taken their weapons—
They found food; they found liquor; found a suitcase packed with a woman’s garments. For the rest, they found only vacancy, and heard only the echo of their own footfalls. There was no lamination hum…no whirling…no ticking as of a metronome…
“Car’s here,” the corporal grumbled; “These are the keys for it. Something’s cockeyed.”
They searched the jungle garden. Enough tracks might sustain a yarn of having been ambushed by the lurking deserter. Once prints were established, the corporal put on the man’s shoes he found in the laboratory, and made tracks to substantiate the imaginary drama he and his buddy were going to enter into their report.
The job was done when one exclaimed, “Well, can you tie that!”
“What?”
“Up in the tree, dope! Two monkeys, and one of ’em wearing a bra and a girdle. Well, I’m a son! Putting on lipstick!”
The other chimpanzee was eating mangoes, and offering some to his mate; she brushed his hand aside, and opened a silver compact.
The corporal cursed. He drew his pistol and fired a couple of shots. He did not intend to hit the animals, and he did not. It made him feel better to see them leap for cover, and find it, in the thick foliage.
“Oh, to hell with it! Let’s go and face it out. You’d never thought that dumb ape had it in him, cold-caulking the two of us, that way.”
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