An' then Jorth backed slow--lookin' all the time--backed to the store, an' went in." Blue's voice ceased.

Jean seemed suddenly released from an impelling magnet that now dropped him to some numb, dizzy depth.

Blue's lean face grew hazy.

Then Jean bowed his head in his hands, and sat there, while a slight tremor shook all his muscles at once.

He grew deathly cold and deathly sick.