"I can't think properly while it seems as if you were waiting to turn me out," she said.Sands sat down."I hardly know how to tell you what I mean. I hardly dare," the voice went on, while hewondered. "It's a tremendous thing to ask. I can't explain ... and if I hesitate it will be toolate. I don't know your name, or your character, except what I judge from your face. Theway to save me is to keep me in this stateroom with the door shut, as far as Chicago.""Good heavens! That's...." Sands was going to end his sentence with ...
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"I can't think properly while it seems as if you were waiting to turn me out," she said.Sands sat down."I hardly know how to tell you what I mean. I hardly dare," the voice went on, while hewondered. "It's a tremendous thing to ask. I can't explain ... and if I hesitate it will be toolate. I don't know your name, or your character, except what I judge from your face. Theway to save me is to keep me in this stateroom with the door shut, as far as Chicago.""Good heavens! That's...." Sands was going to end his sentence with "absolutelyimpossible!" But he stopped in the midst. Her eyes made him stop. It was as if he werepronouncing a death sentence. He was silent for a few seconds."I'd have to say ... no, I could not say you were my wife, because everyone knows I've notgot a wife. I'll say you are my cousin: say you've come late. I want you to have thisstateroom, and I'll take another ... or a section. I-I could do that.""Will you?" she breathed."Yes. I will."He said this almost sullenly. He was thinking: "Pretty smart new dodge! Neat way to get astateroom all the way from Albuquerque to Chicago.""I'll go out now and fix things up with the conductor," he promised. "We must settle on astory. You came on board at Albuquerque just now?""Yes. The last minute before the train started. I have a berth in this car. I thought I was safe, that everything was right for me. Then I saw the man ... not the one I expected; worse. Hewasn't in this car, but the next. I saw him standing there. He was looking at some ladiespassing through. One had on deep mourning, and a crepe veil. Perhaps he believed it was I.I turned and rushed this way. Your door was open, and you ... you looked like a real man.That's all."
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