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Three hundred yards away, beyond the eastern entrance of the overpass, was the call-box of an emergency telephone, but he knew that he would be killed if he tried to walk through the tunnel.
A trescientos metros, más allá de la entrada este del paso elevado, había una cabina telefónica de emergencia, pero Maitland sabía que si intentaba atravesar el túnel lo matarían.
He remembered his refusal to walk through the overpass tunnel to the emergency telephone, his childish insistence that a rush-hour driver stop for him, the anger that had poured out… he had sat in that empty bath as a child, screaming with the same resentment.
Recordó cómo se había negado a atravesar el túnel hasta el teléfono de emergencia, obstinándose en que algún conductor se detuviera a recogerlo en la carretera atestada, la cólera con que había reaccionado… De niño se había quedado en aquella bañera vacía, clamando con el mismo resentimiento.
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