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 "Know anything to do?" I asked Doris in a whisper.

"Not now," she replied.

The normals did not care; they did not even come closer to hear what we said.

"This is the place, I suppose," I continued.

She nodded.

"What's your idea for later?" I asked her.

"I'll have it—later," she said.

So that was it. She had no better plan than I who had none at all.

Just then Jerry came in. That is, I thought at first he was Jerry. My heart leaped at the sight of him; physically it leaped; I felt it pounding in me. I thought he was Jerry, you see. I thought he had come here as Keeban; I believed he was playing the part of Keeban but that really he was Jerry who had come to try to save me.