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Show 110? Crowd m i l l i n ' around is pretty wild tonight fer this early. I ' d jus' as soon be away from i t ." Bill walked the two blocks in the cold s t i l l a i r . He d i d n ' t meet a man on the s t r e e t s . When he got away from J a k e ' s , he couldn't even smell wood smoke. The town looked dead, frozen up-only a dim candle light in one window showed that anyone lived beyond Jakes Place? He knocked on the door of Jan's cabin and called out. "Jan, i t ' s Bill MacKhight? I hear you're sick." Jan said, "Come ini B i l l ." The one-room cabin was cold and dark. Jan said, "There's a candle over on the table B i l l . Light i t for me, will you?" Lunch Mouth told me you'd been down for a day or two, Bill said. "What seems to be the matter?" "Guess I caught cold during that long blow. Bill have you ever known i t to l a s t so long here?" "Never Jan, flever in the seven years I ' v e been here." "How's the l i t t l e boy?" "Seems a l l r i g h t . Brought you a couple of b i s c u i t s. Will you have one now?" Jan chuckled. "Now a biscuit seems just the thing for t h i s old soak right now." He a t e the biscuit slowly. Be out of here and |