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"I'd give a good bit," Bassett said, watching hiht You were safe where you were"

"I don't knohat you are talking about," Dick said drearily "I

didn't run fro" He turned away

irritably "You wouldn't understand Say I was drunk I was, for that

matter I'm not over it yet"

Bassett watched hiht, was it, that this thing

happened?"

"You know it, don't you?"

"And, after it happened, do you reht I didn't care what happened I knew I'd run

into a whale of a blizzard, but I--"

He stopped and stared outside, to where the horses grazed in the upland

hiently

"My dear fellow," he said, "you are right Try to understand what I aht enough But

that was not last night It was ten years ago"