the girls would be screaming , hope would beg me to be allowed to stay in the car . naturally she looked at his thumbs , and sure enough , he had big ones . and when he got beyond that , he took in the square room he was located in . he was never really unreasonable , so i went with whatever he had in mind . i can just see where the hills split and cleft for the path down to the sand - the land is a darker black against the sky - and then i hear a scream . 