But some make you feel so frightened that you run and run and run and you keep on running until it hurts. Your heart is pounding so hard that it feels like it might burst right out of your chest. And all the time you are tripping and falling, slipping and sliding, like in some strange dream. You are completely out of breath, but still you carry on. In their desperate panic to escape Captain Dooley, the children did just that. They scattered through the streets like wild dogs, scrambling through the pinched footpaths between the houses, so frantic were they to escape the searching mind of Captain Dooley and the sharpened grip of the hook-handed man. If they kept moving they would keep the captain thinking and make it harder for him, they were sure. They pulled at the drain covers as they went but not a single one would release its grip of ice. They had little time to spend forcing one open and so their escape found them perched beneath a crumbling bridge that spanned a narrow stretch of the river.
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