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"She was right besideher about the lathe They'd

toldit up fast, too And she

liked it She liked it--"

The fact that Audrey had liked it broke down his scanty reserve of

restraint Clayton found hireat

distance She was very reether

"When the first explosion cauess she knew

it

help and there'd beher run, and waiting And then the second one caether He felt so catch

his arm, and the nurse's voice, very cal"

Then he ing a fluid that burned his throat, and Clare was

crying with the sheet drawn to her ot up, and the nurse followed hiested "We have had

several brought in"

He was still dazed, but he followed her docilely Audrey was not there

He see search,

and hours of agony, and at the end--the one thing he did not knoas

as to be at the end

All that afternoon he searched, going from hospital to hospital And at