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INEZ SCULL, dressed entirely in black, was sitting in Governor Pease's office when Call and Augustus were ushered in. Bingham had come to fetch them and had not said a word on the buggy ride. What was more surprising to Call was that Gus had not said a word either. In the whole stretch of their friendship Call could not remember an occasion when Gus had been silent for so long-and the buggy ride only took ten minutes, not a long silence by normal standards.
"Are you sick, or are you so drunk you can't even talk? " Call asked, near the end of the ride.