so i waited until i heard him shooting somewhere over by the town garage - that 's on dumont street , about as far east as you can go before you run out of town-and then i left stepping out of the market and back onto the sidewalk was one of the hardest things i 've ever done in my life like being a soldier and stepping out into no-man's-land at first i could n't move at all ; i just froze right where i was .