31/40 We didn't know what we were going to do, McMakin and I, but we were both agreed that you needed killing. And he swore that he would marry Lucy anyhow, even--" "MARRY HER!" sings out the doctor, "but we WERE married." "Dave," Colonel Tom says very slow and steady, "you keep SAYING you were married. But it's strange--it's right STRANGE about that marriage." And he looked at the doctor hard and close, like he would drag the truth out of him, and the doctor met his look free and open. You would of thought Colonel Tom was saying with his look: "You MUST tell me the truth." And the doctor with his was answering: "I HAVE told you the truth." "But, Tom," says the doctor, "that letter she wrote you from Chicago must--" "Do you know what Lucy wrote ?" interrupts Colonel Tom. |