I would have liked to argue with him. You're supposed to pretend you don't notice anything's wrong. I had been turned into a criminal by the simple act of blackening my fingers. The hack who was leading the caravan banged with his fist on the door, and then rang a bell.
He wanted to fight. Anthony Boucher at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction rejected it. Fields gag. Just do it.
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