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Cole has eighteen thousand dollars in a canvas bag and a ticket on the 5:40 out. He could walk to the station at midnight and be gone. Instead he spends the night saying goodbye, and every goodbye has a price: Dunbar, who did four years for a job they both worked, wants six thousand and gets it. Molina, the sergeant who wrote Cole out of a report, wants five and gets it. Ruth, who was supposed to be packed, was never coming — she has a later train and another man's name on the second ticket — and by half past four she has the rest. At 5:40 Cole stands on the platform with a paid ticket and nothing to arrive with, and lets the train go without him. Made with Moviengine AI.
