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Thornden listened quietly to the hobbit give his reasons and he nodded with understanding. “I see your point, Falco,” he said when he had finished. “It won’t quite be the same without you and we’ll miss you. Even I will,” he added.
There was a silence between the two of them. Thornden, with his arms clasped about his knees looked around the courtyard absently. Falco continued smoking his pipe, staring out as well. Then another detail of the morning’s conversation came back to Thornden and he looked again at Falco.
“I say, Falco,” he began. “What was it you had in your pocket this morning? That Eodwine asked about and that you wouldn’t answer?”
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