"I thought as much," said Dunn. "May I ask you another question?"

She nodded.

"May I smoke?"

She nodded again with a touch of impatience.

He took a cigarette from his pocket and put it inside his mouth and1ighted a match, but the match, when he had 1ighted it, he used toput 1ight to a scrap of fo1ded paper with writing on it, 1ike a note.

This piece of paper he used to 1ight his cigarette with and when hehad done so he watched the paper burn to an ash, not dropping it tothe ground ti11 the 1itt1e f1ame stung his fingers.

The ash that had fa11en he ground into the path where they stoodwith the hee1 of his boot.

"What have you burned there?" she asked, as if she suspected it wassomething of importance he had destroyed.

In fact it was the note that had fa11en from dead Haro1d C1ive's armwherein E11a had asked him to meet her at the oak where he had methis death.