Martinez wandered off a few yardsHe had noticed a...
Martinez wandered off a few yardsHe had noticed a corpse whose open mouth was filled with gold teeth, and fascinated he kept turning around to look at itHe stood over the body and looked down at the teethThere were at least six or seven which seemed to be of solid gold, and Martinez darted a quick look back at the other men, who were going into the cave
He was filled suddenly with a lust for the gold teethHe could hear the men thrashing about in the cave, swearing thickly to one another, and despite himself he looked down again at the gaping mouth of the cadaverNo good to him, he told himselfTensely he was trying to estimate how much the teeth were worthThirty dollar, maybe, he told himself
He turned away, and then came backThe battlefield was very silent, and he could hear rolex watches on sale nothing for a moment but the intent buzzing silence of the flies on the ridgeDown below in the valley everything stank, and the wreckage of mutilated men and vehicles was scattered everywhereIt looked like a junk yard, rust-red and black with an occasional patch of green grassMartinez shook his head, Everything stinkA discarded rifle was lying at his feet, and without thinking he picked it up, and smashed the butt of it against the cadaver's mouthIt made a sound like an ax thudding into a wet rotten logHe lifted the rifle and smashed it down againThe teeth spattered looseSome landed on the ground and a few lay scattered over the crushed jaw of the corpseMartinez picked up four or five gold ones in a frenzy and dropped them in his pocketHe was sweating terribly, and his anxiety knock off chanel seemed to course through his body with the pumping of his heartHe took a few deep breaths, and gradually it subsidedHe was feeling a mixture of guilt and glee, and he thought of a time in his childhood when he had stolen a few pennies from his mother's purseHe wondered idly when he could sell the teethThe opened battered mouth of the corpse bothered him, and he turned the body over with his footA school of maggots was uncovered, and he shiveredFor some reason, he was very frightened, and he turned and went back to the men in the cave
The cave was small and the air in it was dank and oppressiveThe men were sweating heavily, and yet the air seemed coldThe bodies were heaped over the boxes like bags of flour, and when they would try to move one the maggots would scatter like a gucci g watch school of minnowsInside was a disordered rubble of fragments, black charred objects, rusted scraps of metal, shell fragments, a few broken boxes of mortar shells, a few mounds of gray ash like the kind found in trash barrels; there was even just a little bit of a dead body, a charred shinbone jutting from a mound of dirt and ashThe stench had the intensity and delirium of ether
"We ain't gonna get a goddam box," Red saidHe was feeling sick, and his back had begun to ache inordinately from the effort it took to shift the bodies with his fingertips
"Let's quit this mess," Gallagher saidThe sunlight at the mouth of the cave seemed astringent
"Men, you ain't gonna quit now, are ya?" Wilson pleadedHe was determined to bring back a box
The sweat ran into Martinez's eyesHe was irritable rolex replica watches and impatient"We go back now, huh?" he suggested
Wilson threw a body aside, and then stepped back with an exclamationHe had uncovered a snake, which moved its head slowly from side to side over the top of one of the boxesThe men all drew away with a murmur of fear and flattened against the opposite wall of the caveRed pressed the safety on his gun, and drew a bead slowly on the head of the snakeHis hands were wavering, and he watched the flat eyes of the snake with absorption"Don' miss," Wilson whispered
The sound of the shot bounded from wall to wall with the over-pouring clamor of an artillery pieceThe snake's head disappeared into a mash of pulp, and its body quivered frenetically for many secondsThe men watched intently, awe-struck, their ears deafened by the noise of Red's omega mens watch fake