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The Man Swimming In the Fog Found Himself in As Much of / a Fog in Another Matter. Hell -- Dames!
Even before the echoes came, the man felt gloomily certain that he was going to drown. When they did come, the nearest one -- the one on which his hopes were set -- was definitely farther away than it had been. And that meant that it was quite useless to swim. A current was carrying him away from whatever headland echoed the distant steamer's fog-horn.