1he telephone rang at six a.m.， like an alarxn hurled<br >across the room. It was still dark outside. Audrey had<br >always known the call would come while she was steeping;<br >very bad news has a way of arriving in the night.<br > ~lhc accident was mutcd and sober as t~lr as car accidents<br >go， slow-movin，<， metal and chrome remaining intact.<br >Audrey s filthcr had bccn an cxccllcl2t driver at one time，<br >able to ncg， otiatc the mountain passes and narrow roads<br >where they lived， in winter snow piled high as an overpass，<br >but since hc retired， his sight and his reactions had dimmed.<br >I lc had a tendency to sit behind the wheel slumped to ol~c<br >side， as though hc wasn t driving but watching television.<br >Audrey s mother said she worried that hc would pull out<br >into oncoming traffic onc day. But hc kcpt on driving， and<br >she let him: it was too ~rcat an a~Yront to have to give up that<br >:~s well as all the other passions that had slid i~om his grasp<br >with age.<br > As she packed Audrey remembered the last timc she had<br >bccn to visit. Instead offlying to Victoria she had taken the<br >terry from the mainlanc[ across the (;corgia Strait to<br >Vancouver lslalld. She had sccn an eagle floating in the<br >:m-stream above Maine Island in Active Pass - the sight<br >was so tamiliar， cvcn though it had bccn ~. cars since she was<br >last on the boat. She couldn t hclp but think orJane. In tact，<br >she had given herself a Fright when she looked out the<br >
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