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Meredith went out on the steps, and breathed the cool night air A slender

taint of drugs hung everywhere about the building, and the almost

iht, and

i That John Harkless, of all

ed and splintered, and

suents, while they stabbed and slashed and

tortured hi, dexterous

body of his! Meredith shuddered The lights in the little ere turned

up, and they seemed to shine froht have waited outside the Inquisition--if, indeed, a

brother would have been allowed to wait outside the Inquisition

Alas, he had found John Harkless! He had "lost track" of him as men

sometimes do lose track of their best beloved, but it had always been a

comfort to know that Harkless was--soot along Like others he had been waiting for John to

turn up--on top, of course; for people would always believe in him so,

that he would be shoved ahead, noback himself--

but Meredith had not expected hiuely that Harkless was abroad, and he had a general expectation that

people would hear of him over there soo on er, alone and dying, receiving what ministrations were reserved

for Jerry the Teller But it was Helen Sherho had found him He

wondered how much those two had seen of each other, down there in

Plattville If they had liked each other, and Harkless could have lived,

he thought it s for Helen "Poor Helen!"

he exclai, even in the barren four

sentences He wondered how much they had liked each other Perhaps she