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I never thought you a commonthief. Yes, Lothar noddedagain. He arranged it on a grid overthe embers and then came to her and pulled the blanket off. Kwi had a double handful of stained andsoiled cloth which he offered to Centaine.

Soon she would be alone again, without special food rations for herselfand little Lothar. You can be proud of what you have done, he told her, and then oninspiration added, Many people would have died, perhaps even women andlittle children. The single shot seemed to echo and re-echo throughhis head, and he heard somebody shouting, or perhaps it was only thewild sobbing of his breath and the thunder of his blood in his owneardrums. For a moment she forgot Lothar De La Rey and thediamonds, and suddenly she realized that they were still holding handsand that everybody was watching them.