 Why did the dumpy man not start running when he picked up the suitcases?
I had finished reading the Chronicle , folded and put it beside me, turned and looked out the window, expecting to see the San Joaquin Valley but finding only a sea of clouds instead. Inventory completed, I went back to looking at the clouds, knowing I should be thinking about the printing order I was going to Los Angeles for, and not wanting to. One went to a battery and the other to hard round cylinders taped together. Quickly I went up past the train of gears to the alarm wheel. No, none of them would know it was there. We'd be leaving the valley for the mountain range north of Los Angeles soon, if we hadn't left it already.
 He didn't want to arouse suspicion unless he was spotted
 He knew there was a bomb and didn't want to jostle it before he retrieved the other contents  He didn't know there was a bomb so he had no reason to rush  He didn't want to arouse suspicion unless he was spotted  He was too big to be able to move quickly