188- The Far-Away Island

tired of the everyday grind ever dream of a life of romantic adventure want to get away from it all we offer you escape escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure For running from an unseen enemy, frightened and alone, living from day to day, while your

pursuer, unrelenting and murderous, is gaining on you, ready to trap you in a place from which there is no escape. Listen now as escape brings you Charles Smith's exciting story, The Far Away Island. The film is the important thing.

If you don't know it now, you will, when you've reached the 50 mark. That's why the money was so important. It would give me time. With it, I could return to a life I had lived six years before, during the war, on the island of Amokar.

The tropical sun streamed into my room, making it impossible for me to sleep any longer. The morning breeze carried the heavy order of rotten fish.

And just outside I could hear the goats and chickens. This was Papitti. I'd been there five weeks waiting, making sure I'd lost the man who had followed me from Boston. And now I was sure I had lost him.

And in two days I would sail for a mocha. And then get the people to buy me breakfast. Don't let Mama Tita find you here. Oh, she knows I'm here. She told me where you were and she said I might wake you.

Give me a cigarette. How do you feel? Terrible. Wait till I breakfast at Queens and you can tell me more about your island. My island? Wait, you called it your island. I drink too much. Never listen to a man when he's under the influence.