Could you know that man again ?" "Raine!" Brit's voice held a warning, and Lorraine shivered again as she turned toward him.

"Raine, you----" He closed his eyes again, and she could get no further speech from him.
But she thought she understood.

He did not want her to talk about Fred Thurman.

She went to her end of the stretcher and waited there while Swan put the rope over his head.

They went on, Lorraine walking with her head averted, trying not to see the blaze-faced roan, trying to shut out the memory of him dashing past her with his terrible burden, that night.
Swan did not speak of the matter again.