The prisoners are marching from the prison camp and have spent the night in an empty sports stadium. Jim sees the cars of the Allies taken by the Japanese and thinks they have come to collect their owners to take them home. however, he sees that this is just a mirage and returns to massaging Mr Maxted in an effot to keep him alive. Jim decides to stay with Mr Maxted instead of joining the other prisoners in their march. Jim becomes something of a "Chinese coolie running at the command of his European masters" to the other prisoners that have stayed behind, giving them water to drink. They then see a glare in the sky that is the atomic bomb. Mr Maxted's last act is to prevent Jim from going with the final prisoners.
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