CHAIRPERSON
I screamed, "Cathy, come quickly, there has been a bomb".   Cathy came up to the house only minutes later, but in the meantime I tried to summon help by dialling the police.   For at least five minutes, though it seemed very very much more, neither I nor Cathy could get a dialling tone, the phone line was apparently dead.    After a while, and I don't really know how long a while it was, because it seemed like hours, but it was probably only 10 or 15 minutes, Cathy did manage to dial out.  For some reason, the telephone started working again.   She called the police and the ambulance, who arrived at least half an hour after my father was shot, but I am not sure of the time.