might as well get it out in the open . `` no , you shall not , '' a new voice said from behind . la , la , la i cant hear you . i got that , but the truth in his words still stung . this place is crawling with spooks . '' in this way they advanced some fifteen miles , measured in a direct line east , though they must have actually walked twenty miles or more . she was right , but where would i go ? how long had he been on the ice ? 