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hand but hesitated to start up the boat. On one hand, she wanted to get them as far out in the water, away from the thief and his gun. On the other hand, if she tried to start up the boat and failed to move it, they would be sitting ducks at this dock and she could get them all killed. There would be no time to run back to the trees.
     
    A hand fell on her shoulder. “I can drive this,” Elvin whispered.
     
    “You can?” She jerked her head up, amazed.
     
    “I think so. I saw some videos online. Was gonna get my boat license then but things got hectic with our other venture and all so I never went for the test.”
     
    “You think you can drive because you saw a video?”
     
    He nodded, so sure of himself, Abby believed him. She had no clue how to get the boat away, at least he could try. She got up from the seat and pushed the set of keys in his hand. “Hurry! We won’t have much time.”
     
    Abby crawled back to Margie, her soft whimpers getting louder. “Hush, Margie, you’ll draw attention to us. Please,” she begged. She sat next to her and wrapped an arm around her to help calm her fears.
     
    “You have to untie us,” Elvin told her. “Over there, remove the rope from the post.” Abby followed his orders, and the engines came to life. The music and revelry was loud enough no one paid attention to a boat start up. Relief flooded through her veins. They were soon free.
     
    The boat sputtered as it moved away from the dock. “Can you go faster?” Abby tried to keep her voice down but Elvin never heard her. He needed to hurry. “Elvin, hurry!”
     
    “It won’t go any faster.” He hit the throttle harder, but the engine began to sputter. Abby crawled up to the front of the boat and checked the gauges.
     
    “It looks like it’s almost out of gas! You’ve got to be kidding!” They were a couple hundred feet away from the dock, too far to swim back. The boat drifted further away, the engine sputtering and trying to move.
     
    Penny barked as two dark sinister forms shouted from the pavilion. Zorro and another man ran towards the dock. “Give it all you got, now!” Abby shouted as the boat gave one last jerk and sped out in to the water, knocking her down. Abby fell forward, her head hitting the leather seat. She got up on her knees and looked back in amazement.
     
    A sound like a freight train rent the air. At first Abby thought it sounded like the tornado they witnessed in Memphis until the whirly wings of a helicopter spun over the trees, out of the darkness, its engines reverberating through the night air. Like something out of a spy novel, she watched as the tree-line along the far end of the camp came alive when dozens of armed men sprung from the woods, their guns ablaze. Abby laughed out loud! She doubted the little pistol Zorro carried could match the gunfire at hand.
     
    “Would you look at all the folderol!” Margie cried, her sea sickness forgotten. “Look at them two,” she laughed. “Elvin, do you see the bad guys? We did this, we won!”
     
    Elvin took his eyes off of what he was doing and turned his head to see the commotion. “Wow!” His hand slipped off the throttle and in that moment the engine sputtered and died. “Oh!” He tried to revive the engine, but it was no use, the last of the gas got sucked up in their flight.
     
    “Don’t worry, Elvin. They’ll see us and come to our rescue.” The three of them watched as the armed agents surrounded the two men and forced them on to the ground. They both lay on their bellies, handcuffed and taken away. Margie jumped up and down until she realized she was in a boat and her eyes widened.
     
    “We’re far out in the water. Do you think they can see us.”
     
    “Maybe we should let them know.” Abby waved her hands back and forth. “Margie can I see your watch?”
     
    As Abby went to grab for Margie’s arm and speak in to the watch she didn’t realize the older woman unclipped it from her wrist. As she took