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The captain ca at Spender for a moment

The captain reached into his blouse pocket Spender's fingers tightened on the pistol

The captain said, "Cigarette?"

"Thanks" Spender took one

"Light?"

"Got my own"

They took one or two puffs in silence

"Warm," said the captain

"It is"

"You comfortable up here?"

"Quite"

"How long do you think you can hold out?"

"About twelve men's worth"

"Why didn't you kill all of us thiswhen you had the chance? You could have, you know"

"I know I got sick When you want to do a thing badly enough you lie to yourself You say the other people are all wrong Well, soon after I started killing people I realized they were just fools and I shouldn't be killing theo on with it then, so I cary, to build it all up again