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His own part in the threatening catastrophe began to obsess hiory there would have been no return to Norada, no

arrest It had all been dead and buried, until he hiirl in the blue dress at the theater, of

course

Dick put down the glass

"I'm ready, if you are"

"Does the na to you?"

"Nothing"

"Judson Clark? Jud Clark?"

Dick passed his hand over his forehead wearily

"I'm not sure," he said "It sounds fa to et that If it's a key, it doesn't

unlock That's all Ah, Bassett found hi for hope of escape in

the very situation that had previously irritated him, in the story he

had heard at Wasson's He considered, and said, almost violently: "Look here, I may have made a mistake I came out here pretty well

convinced I'd found the solution to an old mystery, and for that matter

I think I have But there's a twist in it that isn't clear, and until

it is clear I' to saddle you with an identity thatto you You are one of two men One of them is Judson Clark, and