05/03/2026 22:19

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            I was very glad to see Stirling again and had a strong sense that Aunt Queen would be disturbed if she knew.            I knelt down before her.             'They were dead bodies, Aunt Queen,' I said. It passed belief, and she concluded that there was something in the world of men that enabled them to definevictory in terms that no woman would ever understand.

I felt it was best.            And then no more Rebecca, just as there was no more Patsy.             When I reached the front steps I sat down with the leather-bound book I'd found in Rebecca Stanford's trunk, and tried to make out the writing inside. I told them how much I wanted to be part of them.