D'ye understand?
I'll be dead when the fight ends, if you win.

That'll be one end." "But if you win, Bill." A flash of joy shot into DeBar's eyes.
"Then that'll be the other end," he said more softly still.

He pointed to the big Mackenzie hound.

"I said he was next to my best friend an earth, Phil.

The other--is a girl--who lived back there--when it happened, years and years ago.