Corinna waved Kintyre and Yamamura back. She sat down beside Guido and took his free hand. "Bruce got himself killed too," she said in her gentlest tone. "Oh, yes, yes, yes! Leave me alone!" "He was tied down somewhere and tortured," she said, not raising her voice. "They burned him. The marks were all over his body, even after they finished hacking it up. I know that much, no more. Nobody would tell me more, and I didn't want to ask. But he must have been glad when they finally cut his throat." Guido tried to rise. She pulled him back, without using much strength. "Jesus!" he screamed. "Why did you help them?" she asked. "I didn't! It's got nothing to do with--I _didn't_!" She stood up again and looked down upon him. "Why did you do it?" she said as calmly. "How had he hurt you, that you had to let him be burned and twisted and killed?" "No! Not me! I don't know!" His mouth was stretched into a gash; a tongue like dry wood bobbed within it. She slapped him. It could not have been hard, but he fell back onto the bed and clawed at the mattress. "Good-by," she said, and walked from him. Kintyre looked at her and knew why the Furies had been women. His heart was a cold lump. Corinna waited in a corner, her hands writhing together. Guido tried, horribly, to weep, and could not. Then at last he rolled over on his back, blinked at the light, and said in a high childish voice: "I'll tell you what happened. I'll tell you so you can see it wasn't me, wasn't anything to do with Bruce, it just happened to happen the same weekend, and then maybe if you get out and leave me alone they won't kill me. "All I did was this. These cats from Chicago came around last week and said they were after some of the pod and could I get it, it was worth five hundred bucks to them plus expenses. Not horse, now, I don't have anything to do with horse. Just marijuana, it never hurt anybody, you don't get hooked, you don't go nuts, hell, I mean you even have to will yourself to keep the jag up and it's only in your head, man, you don't do nothing to nobody else, dig?" "Guido," said Corinna warningly.