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I did not know what he meant, but replied that I was a member of The Guard, and without waiting for a reply from him I strode toward the opposite door of the antechamber, behind which I could hear Dejah Thoris conversing.
Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
"Listen once again then, Jacques!" said the man with the restless hand and the craving air.
But it was absolutely necessary that he should not know!
