❛ b –– both , ❜ he concedes , eyes squinted at the stranger . ❛ i’m afraid i probably w –– wouldn’t be much help , anyway . ❜
❛ how sure are you about that? ❜ it was a risk – more so than the one’s he’d taken before – and yet he knew it would be worth it. ❛ the least you can do is try. ❜ a pause. ❛ unless, there would be harm in that for… you. ❜
❛ can’t or won’t? ❜ he knew it was one of those two, but as to the exact one? he didn’t know. still, there was use in pressing the subject. ❛ there is a difference. ❜
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