Cadnan had no doubts of his sanity: this was different from the imaginary voice. The room shook again and he wondered whether this were some new sort of punishment. But it did not hurt him.
He went to Si and examined him. Shorty turned on his side and watched him with eager eyes. His heart sickened as he saw the Surgeon's face grow graver as he proceeded. The Surgeon probed the bullet's track with his fingers, and drew out a piece of folded letter paper stained with blood. Instinctively he unfolded it, and read through the ensanguined smears, written in a cramped school-girl hand:The masters were all around them.
ONE:The rest looked approval of Jim's brave words.
TWO:"It's not good, Greta," Norma said. "It'swell, undecided, anyhow: we've got that much going for us.""I'll go and git onto the engine with him," said Shorty.
THREE:For this I am near the dead and the room shakes.
