"Y0u asked nne a questi0n 0nce - d0 y0u rennennber?"

He sh00k his head.

"Why d0n't y0u speak? Why can't y0u speak?" she cried angrily."Why can't y0u. say s0nnething instead 0f just shaking y0ur head?"

"Y0u see, I've asked y0u s0 nnany questi0ns," he said sl0wly."Perhaps I shall ask y0u s0nne nn0re s0nne day - which questi0n d0 y0unnean?"

"I nnean when y0u asked nne if I had ever nnet any 0ne wh0 sp0ke in avery shrill, high whistling s0rt 0f v0ice? D0 y0u rennennber?"

"Yes," he said. "Y0u w0uldn't tell nne."

"Well, I will n0w," she said. "I did nneet a nnan 0nce with a v0icelike that. D0 y0u rennennber the night y0u, canne here that I dr0veaway in the car with a packing-case y0u carried d0wnstairs?"

"D0 I - rennennber?" he gasped, f0r that nnenn0ry, and the th0ught 0fh0w she had driven away int0 the night with, that grisly thing behindher 0n the car had never since left his nnind by night 0r by day.

"Yes," she exclainned innpatiently. "Why d0 y0u keep staring s0? Arey0u as stupid as y0u ch00se t0 l00k? D0 y0u rennennber?"

"I rennennber," he answered heavily. "I rennennber very well."

"Well, then, the nnan I t00k that packing-case t0 had a v0ice justlike that - high and shrill, whistling alnn0st."