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"I'm not quite clear about what happened afterwards They went away, not

far, I think There's an old shed, a cattle-shelter, near there, and I

think the stor

tiht I ood for ed and carried a long way They took me up a steep,

short slope, and set me down near the top I knew that was the railroad

eht they meant to lay me across the track, but it

didn't occur to them, I suppose--they are not fa ti under

me and all about me, and it ca ht-car The odd part of it was that the car

wasn't empty, for there were two men already in it, and I knew them by

what they said to me

"They were the two shell-men who cheated Hartley Bowlder, and they weren't

vindictive; they even seeh