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In the front ranks! With my own eyes! I saw him! ( hurries out of the room.)

(after a tense pause). He was dying. Did you know that?

(gravely). I knew. ( reënters.)

Well?

(nodding quietly). Dead.

I saw him! With my own eyes I saw him!

Dead not five minutes.

(staggered). But—but such things don't happen! There were thousands of boys like him!

(slowly). Yes.

(turning fiercely on ). You must have been mistaken!

(changing the word pointedly). I might have been mistaken.

Then again, you might not have been— ( nods quietly, understandingly. gasps...)