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 "Yes."

"What?" said the colonel eagerly, his eyes brightening with a light that alarmed the doctor.

"They say you've carried some districts on the North Side."

"Which ones?" asked the colonel.

"Don't remember."

"Anything else?"

"Well, they say Warner has carried some North Side districts, too—and some West Side districts."

"Warner?"

"Well, whatever his name is."

Then Foerder was silent, and the colonel lay a long time thinking.

"Did you learn how it's going in the Ninth, or the Second, or the Seventeenth?"

"They say it's about an even break everywhere."

"And how's the First?" The colonel put this question in a whisper, as if he feared the answer. The doctor did not know. Then the silence again, and the colonel's labored breathing, and the ticking of the nurse's little gold watch.

"What district do you live in, Doctor?" the colonel asked later.