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- Jamie's Ordeal
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- Another soldier came out of the barracks to urinate on Jamie's
- naked body, whistling a merry tune, and concentrating especially on
- her blond head. Jamie pressed her chin against her chest, not so
- much in humiliation any more, but in a futile effort to keep the
- stinking fluid from splashing into her face. Nevertheless, the
- filthy flow ran from the back of her head to her cheeks and neck,
- and then down her waled and bruised body to join the muddy pool of
- urine around her knees. Some of it trickled to the tips of her
- breasts, and dripped to the ground along the pair of large steel
- pins pierced deeply into her nipples.
- She was kneeling in a small depression in the ground near the
- barracks, her wrists and ankles tied tightly to a telephone pole
- against her back. Leaning forward in exhaustion, she felt a vague
- gratitude to the pole and rope for keeping her from falling into
- the urine pool. Assaulted constantly by the disgusting odor and the
- blistering tropical sun, she was on the verge of passing out.
- A pair of heavy leather boots tramped up to her. Without
- opening her eyes, Jamie shivered in the approaching man's shadow,
- realizing immediately who it was. It had to be Major Pham, the
- commandant of the prison camp, the only person in the whole camp
- who wore such Russian-made leather boots instead of the soldiers'
- cheap plastic sandals, and the animal who had taken much pleasure
- over the past few days in subjecting Jamie to every imaginable form
- of torture, in the attempt to make her confess to improbable crimes
- against the regime.
- "I hope you are enjoying my comrades' generosity," Major Pham
- never let pass a chance to show off his fluent English. "Are you
- ready to talk now?"
- "I have nothing more to tell you," Jamie answered wearily.
- "Oh yes you do. For example, who sent you here? And what is
- your mission?"
- "I've told you a million times already," Jamie slowly raised
- her head. "My mother sent me here, to look for my father."
- "Who died some twenty years ago," Major Pham commented
- nonchalantly.
- "That's a lie!" Jamie suddenly gathered enough strength to
- shout at the major's silhouette against the sun. "I know he's
- alive; and you know he's alive. He's right here in this camp! He's
- been held in this camp for the last twenty years!"
- "And so you came here to play a female Rambo to get him out?"
- Major Pham's tone revealed his amusement over this notion. He even
- smiled and shook his head as he ground out his cigarette on the
- lacerated slim shoulder of the naked girl bound helplessly to the
- telephone pole.
- "No..." Jamie's voice started to drop after an initial loud
- groan. "I came to beg you to let him go home. You have kept him in
- captivity for long enough. Now that you have me, you can keep me
- here forever if you want, but please let him go."
- "What a moving story of a daughter's dedication," Major Pham
- sighed. "But do you really expect me to believe it?"
- "Then shoot me! What are you waiting for?"
- "I intend to do just that, to tell you the truth," Major Pham
- put on an honest tone. "But I cannot. Some of my colleagues from
- the security forces want to spend some more time with you, and they
- will take over your case tomorrow. Now take my words, young lady:
- as soon as they lay their fingers on you, you are going to wish
- that I had ordered you shot right on the spot when we caught you."
- Jamie hanged her head in silence. She already wished so.
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