"John Norman - Gor 02 - Outlaw of Gor" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norman John)

who, all the time, had been sitting at the window, his chin on his hands,
watching the snow, lost in what thoughts I could scarcely conjecture.

He turned and faced me.

'It's true,' he said, 'but you need not believe it.'

I didn't know what to say. It could not, of course, be true, yet I felt
Cabot to be one of the most honest men I had ever known.

Then I noticed his ring, almost for the first time, though I had seen it a
thousand times. It had been mentioned in the account, that simple ring of
red metal, bearing the crest of Cabot.

'Yes,' said Cabot, extending his hand, 'this is the ring.'

I gestured to the manuscript. 'Why have you shown me this?' I asked.

'I want someone to know of these things,' said Cabot simply.

I arose, now conscious for the first time of a lost night of sleep, the
effects of the drinking, and of the several cups of bitter coffee. I smiled
wryly. 'I think,' I said, 'I'd better go.'

'Of course,' said Cabot, helping me on with my coat. At the doorway he held
out his hand. 'Good-bye,' he said.

'I'll see you tomorrow,' I said.

'No,' he said. 'I am going again to the mountains.'

It was in February, at this time, that he had disappeared seven years
before.

I was shocked into clear consciousness. 'Don't go,' I said.

'I am going,' he said.




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'Let me come with you,' I said.

'No,' he said, 'I may not come back.'

We shook hands, and I had the strange feeling that I might never see Tarl
Cabot again. My hand was clenched firmly on his, and his on mine. I had