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"Well, that was good of him!тАФNo, cancel that. I know he wouldn't do anything
like that without a good reason." She turned her head to look up into his face.
"And that made you have some crazy dream?"

"Maybe!" said Jim. He did not really know. "But when he came, I'd just been
looking out the window and seen a couple of driftersтАФa man and a woman, I

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think. One was a full head taller than the other. I couldn't get them out of my
mind. So, I lay awake a long time, then went back to sleep and had this dream."

"And made the bed yourself, and got dressed up like this while you were still
dreaming?"

"Of course not. I dressed, thinking I'd stay up, called in the servant to make the
bed, then lay down on the made-up bedтАФand had the dream."

"Some dream, to affect you like this!"

Again he had no easy answer.

"Tell me what it was about," she said.

He put his arm around her and took her hand, laying it out palm up in his own
open palm. They both studied it for a momentтАФAngle's looking fragile against
his broader, thicker hand, with its longer fingers, callused now by tight-held
reins and hours of weapon practice with Brian. Then he brought his arm back
and covered both hands with his other, holding her hand within both of his.

"I meant what I told you earlier, literally," he said, as gently as he could. "I
dreamed they were walking on the ground over me. I dreamed I was dead."

"Jim!"

"I'm sorry," he said. "I wasn't going to tell you. But you had to know. That's how
it was."

There was a moment when neither said anything.

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"I believe you," Angie said gently. "But you know, none of what you've told me
makes me understand why there was this business of walking over your grave."