Boyd, as a senior officer, lived in a trailer. By all accounts he worked eighteen- and twenty-hour days. He bought a reel-to-reel tape deck, and every night as he did paperwork his trailer was filled with the ominous “Ride of the Valkyries” or the majestic “Entry of the Gods into Valhalla.” It was at night that Boyd made his phone calls to America, to Sprad or Christie or Sprey and once to Mary. These calls were made on the ham-radio network called MARS, a system that necessitated saying “over” after speaking and then waiting to accommodate the interminably long pause; Mary found it terribly
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