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' The tears coming again. Eyes closed. One final coherent thought flared in his mind — You're the cancer, Kurtz, you — and then died. Underhill stood where he was a moment longer, looking at him.

'Aw, fuck, sing it again,' Pete says. Mrs Cavell looks at Henry with fixed concentration, as if she is trying to read his mind. ' Kurtz touched the place where the soft nape joined the hard skull. So much forest, so much wildlife, and not a few human beings — most of them at this time of year wearing orange.