[He wants to know how, but he doesn't think he's going to get an explanation, or he'd have gotten one already. It's confusing. How could someone like this, someone he's never met, know him?]
But--
[The way the man is looking at him makes him shiver. He hesitates briefly, then he turns and starts to hurry away, across the shore.]
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But--
[The way the man is looking at him makes him shiver. He hesitates briefly, then he turns and starts to hurry away, across the shore.]