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there?"<br />

Henry pulled the pack toward him and lit a<br />

cigarette. He spit the smoke out.<br />

Abernathy searched for his pipe. "Treating you all<br />

right?"<br />

"Been in worse. Had an old colored nut in the cell<br />

with me, but they took him away this morning to run<br />

some psycho tests on him.<br />

He had me going up the wall for a while. He played<br />

the harmonica all the time."<br />

"Must have been annoying."<br />

"There was this dumb grit in my squad used to play,<br />

too. Used to get a cassette, play along with it, even<br />

carried it along on details."<br />

"Yes?"<br />

"Nothing. He tripped a wire one day, blew his leg<br />

off. Bled to death. Like a pig. Dumb grit." Henry<br />

jabbed the cigarette into the ashtray. "I can't pay you."<br />

"Payment's not a problem now."<br />

"That's a new one. Why not? It's a problem to me.<br />

I'm not asking for handouts."<br />

"I understand that. You've made no arrangements

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