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. The ship may not have sunk; that may not have been necessary to the scheme.'
Margrethe did not say anything.
So I added gently, 'Go ahead, dear; say it. Get it off your chest; I won't mind. I'm crazy. Paranoid.'
'Alec, I did not say that. I did not think it. I would not.'
'No, you did not say it. But this time my aberration cannot be explained away as "loss of memory". That is, if we saw the same thing. What did you see?'
'I saw something strange in the sky. I heard it, too. You told me that it was a flying machine.'
'Well, I think that is what it should be called - but you can call it a, uh, a "gumpersaggle" for all of me. Something new and strange. What is this gumpersaggle? Describe it.'
'It was something moving in the sky. It came from back that way, then passed almost over us, and disappeared there.' (She pointed, a direction I had decided, was north.) 'It was shaped something like a cross, a crucifix. The crosspiece had bumps on it, four I think. The front end had eyes like a whale and the back end had flukes like a whale. A whale with wings - t hat's what it looked like, Alec; a whale flying through the sky!'
'You thought it was alive?'
'Uh, I don't know. I don't think so. I don't know what to think.'
'I don't think it was alive; I think it was a machine. A flying machine. A boat with wings on it. But, either way - a machine or a flying whale - have you- ever in your life seen anything like it?'
'Alec, it was so strange that I have trouble believing that I saw it
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