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35. Jump For It
One of the nails in the lid of the packing case is sticking out of the wood, and John Drake lies there for hours rubbing his roped wrists against the point. Finally, as the freight train rumbles on eastwards, he succeeds in fraying the rope to breaking point; then, with his knees and shoulders, he forces the lid of the create. As the train slows on an embankment beside a road, Drake jumps for it. He is somewhere in central Europe. But Where?
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