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Garth knuckled under. There was nothing else to do. He knew Brown wouldn't hesitate to kill him, and, after all, what the devil did Paula Trent mean to him? Her life was unimportant, compared to the hopeless quest that had quickened in his mind, despite himself.
For Doc Willard might still be alive. Even if he wasn't, there was that notebook the Doc had always carried around with him -- a book that contained the medico's theories about the Silver Plague. Even if that ghastly dreamlike memory were not merely delirium -- even if Garth, witless and unknowing, had killed Willard -- there was always that dim, desperate chance that the cure for the Plague might be found in the Black Forest.