He tried to imagine how he must have felt after Kissin’ Kate had left him stranded in the desert.
It probably wasn’t a whole lot different from the way he himself felt now. Kate Barlow had left his great-grandfather to face the hot barren desert.
The Warden had left Stanley to face Mr. Sir. Somehow his great-grandfather had survived for seventeen days,
before he was rescued by a couple of rattlesnake hunters. He was insane when they found him.
When he was asked how he had lived so long, he said he “found refuge on God’s thumb.” He spent nearly a month in a hospital.
He ended up marrying one of the nurses. Nobody ever knew what he meant by God’s thumb, including himself.
Stanley heard a twitching sound. He stopped in mid-step, with one foot still in the air.
A rattlesnake lay coiled beneath his foot. Its tail was pointed upward, rattling.
Stanley backed his leg away, then turned and ran. The rattlesnake didn’t chase after him.
It had rattled its tail to warn him to stay away. “Thanks for the warning,” Stanley whispered as his heart pounded.
The rattlesnake would be a lot more dangerous if it didn’t have a rattle.
“Hey, Caveman!” called Armpit. “You're still alive.”
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