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Just before daybreak the next morning Dr. Helberson and his young friend Harper were driving slowly through the streets of North Beach in the doctor's coupé.
"Have you still the confidence of youth in the courage or stolidity of your friend? " said the elder man. "Do you believe that I have lost this wager?"