title: Short Escapes Near Boston, 2nd Edition (Fodor's)
author:  Bruce Scofield 
description: Bruce Scofield is the author of four hiking guides that cover many of the mountainous, natural, and historic areas found in the Northeast.An interest in nature and the outdoors got him involved in volunteer trail building and trail-maintenance for hiking clubs, as well as public land preservation campaigns and nature photography.He holds a masters degree in history and has special interest in ancient history and Mexican archaeology.He lives in western Massachusetts, where he is an astrological consultant and writer of astrology.
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  CHAPTER TWO:  
    
  Three years went by.  
    
  His boots full of frigid water, and his rifle securely strapped to his pack,
  Matt Garvin was picking his way through the trash in the drainage channel
  between the subway rails. A hundred feet ahead of him, dim light from a roof
  grating patched out the darkness, and he ran his thumb over the safety catch
  of the Glock he had looted out of a littered pawnshop drawer on Eighth Avenue.
  He stopped for a moment, opened his mouth to quiet the sound of his breath,
  and listened.  
    
  Water dripped from a girder to the concrete of the station platform ahead of
  him. Behind him in the tunnel--at about the Third Avenue entrance, he judged--
  someone else was moving. That was all right. There were two long blocks
  between them, and he'd be out of the tunnel by the time the other man was
  within dangerous distance.  
    
  He listened again, disregarding the faint splash of water on the platform, the
  different bu