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Price For Returning

"Perhaps he's not allowed to.
Sometimes that's the price one has
to pay — for returning."

"I feel that there are others who
know, who are covering up," I said,
mentioning my trip to Monticello.

"Did it ever occur to you," he
said intently, "that there may be
others besides Mr. Jefferson who
returned?" Then he paused to hit
me with the full impact of what he
was to say next. "Is it not
conceivable that all of those who
presently work at Monticello were
there before?"