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   “ ‘To the very end,’ I said shakily. ‘I heard his very last words . . . .’ I stopped in a fright.     ” ‘Repeat them,’ she murmured in a hear-broken tone. ‘I want–I want–something–something–to–to live with.’    “I was on the point of crying at her, ‘Don’t you hear them?’ The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. ‘The horror! The horror!d’    “‘His last word–to live with,’ she insisted. ‘Don’t you understand I loved him–I loved him–I loved him!’    “I pulled myself together and spoke slowly.    ” ‘The last word he pronounced was–your name.’ ”