2/42 A bullet, traveling at the rate of a million miles a minute, broke the skin there and took a thin flake of flesh with it, but I'm so terribly healthy it's healed up without leaving a trace." "There's no hope for us," said Warner, sighing. "We can never point to the proof of our warlike deeds. You didn't find your cousin among the prisoners ?" "No, nor was he among their fallen whom we buried. Nor any of his friends either. I'm quite sure that he escaped. |