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FATHERS OF MEN
"If you call that friendship! He never wrote to me all last term, though I wrote twice to him!"
"I suppose that would be why Heriot asked you both to breakfast," said Jan, very thoughtfully, as they began walking back together. "I mean, you both coming from the same school."
"What? Oh, yes, of course it was."
Jan threw one narrow look over his shoulder.
"Of course it was!" he agreed, and walked on nodding to himself.
"But he didn't know Evan Devereux, or he'd have known that an old friend was nothing to him!"
"I wouldn't be too sure," said Jan with gentle warmth. "I wouldn't be too sure, if I were you."
