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Show 15, Jeffries, Islamorada [Section 2] "Yes I come from the land." "Well you sort of scared me. Just a bit there. Would you be visiting these parts. . ." "No sir. I'm the new schoolteacher. For Baxter." "Rossmore. Old-timer. Old railroad man." More for balance, it seemed, the old man offered his hand. "Yes I'm learning. About Flagler's railroad across these islands." "Mr. Henry Flagler's Eighth Wonder of the World. But you'll be stayin', then, be a freshwater conch?" "Well it's certainly most pleasant here of a winter's day." "Never been snow in the Florida Keys, frost even-- maybe once. You'll be stayin'?" "They're sayin' they're gonna offer me the job for next year." "Get a small piece of land, a boat. There's people down here that have gone to seed in a way that ain't all bad, take three meals a day outta the sea, have you had the dream yet?" "Uh. The dream. Well I'm not sure. Last night, my first night here, all night, in the canal behind the motel and in my sleep, the sound of someone bathing. . ." "The tarpon rolling. They come in at night, off the Atlantic. . .Now this motel you mention, we're neighbors? I been seein' lights at the old deserted SERGEANT FISH, you stayin'--?" |