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 I thought that nobody’d come back, that we alone were left there, that all the rest perished!



Why, I saw you



I have come



Why, we saw you



Dead or alive, I had to come.



Dead



Dead or alive, that is all one to me. But I vowed



What?



Nothing.



My son! No, that is not my son! Did you not see my son? Hasn’t he returned yet? He is not among you. My boy!



We don’t know. Perhaps—there’ll be some more coming back.