at's the matter?" he demanded. "Has something happened?"

In his halting English, Pancho translated the gist of the priest's
explanation. "The _padre_ say he no can help you, _senor_. He say he
have how you call vision. It tell him you must pay."

There was more. But Hager didn't need any more to know that he was
being refused further help for the crime he had committed.

A short while after the priest left he felt the cold again.

Pancho built a fire in the fireplace, and Hager crouched before it,
huddled in blankets and shivering. He was still there when Pancho went
to bed. And he was still there when Pancho awoke in the morning. But
he was no longer shivering. He no longer felt the cold.

He was dead.

It had been a warm night. The fire had been, hot, the blankets
numerous and thick. Yet Hager had _frozen_ to death.

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