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RIDERS OF THE SILENCES

cold and keen. Her hand had gathered to a hard-balled fist.

"Eight—nine—"

She sprang up, screaming: "No, no, Pierre!" And threw out her arms to him.

"Ten."

She whispered: "It was the girl with yellow hair—Mary Brown."