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"All right," said Dr Jaain Is there anything else you want?"

"You -- you didn't --?"

The doctor shook his head "Very sorry," he said, "but there

wasn't a thing could be done"

"Where is he?" she asked in a whisper

"His people took him home immediately after the Coroner's inquest,

which found that he died froht on by his

long walk in the heat"

Kate stared at him with a face pitiful to behold

"You let hiain

"I did," said the old doctor "I thought, and still think, that

for the sake of you and yours," he waved toward the bundle, "it

was the only course to pursue"

"Thank you," said Kate "You're very kind But don't you think

that I and ? The next

ht? Is it

honest?"

"It is for you," said the doctor "You had nothing to do with it

If you had, things would not have gone as they did As for me, I

feel perfectly couide All I had to do was to let them tell their story I

perjuredthat you knew

nothing about it The Coroner could well believe that George