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Utterly miserable and ashamed, even feeling themselves abased, the two boys again remained silent for some moments following Piper's self-denunciatory words.
"We juj-just had to do it," Springer finally faltered in an effort at self-justification.
"We didn't have to," returned Billy sharply; "but we didn't have the courage to do anything diff