After the lights had gone out, Tim lay on his back, his hands beneath his head, and stared into the night as the sounds of the creaking, groaning bunks subsided and were replaced by the sounds of the regular and heavy breathing of so many very tired bodies.

He heard the whisper of bare feet along the passage beside his bunk. The whispering footsteps hesitated, stopped, and near his pillow he heard a sibilant, "Pancho? Move over !" and Krowalsky slipped into the bunk with him.

Tim lay on his side on the very edge of the bunk, and as Krowalsky pulled the sheet over them, he threw his arm across Tim's waist, and pulling him close, whispered, "You'll fall out."

Tim lay there paralyzed, his heart thumping and setting up a pulse which beat down through his body and came to focus at his groin.

Krowalsky slipped his hand under the band of Tim's shorts.

"NO!"

"Don't you want to?"

"NO!"

"You did when we were dancing."

"No! They'll catch us!"

He could feel Krowalsky's silent laughter.

"Nah!-Murphy just left. He won't make his rounds for another half-hour." Later, as Murphy made his rounds, he found lying on the floor, two pages from an unfinished letter which began: Querida mia

Muttering a curse, he picked them up and threw them into the trash container.

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