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"WHERE am I and what happened? " Tom asked himself. Rather futile and hackneyed questions, but they were just the points Tom desired to be informed about.
Much easier it was to reconstruct what had happened than it was to answer the first question as to where he was. Beyond the fact that he was in some dark place-very dark-and that it was damp and noisome, Tom could not imagine where he had been taken.