I bet that's a typesetting error that didn't get caught or got caught but not corrected. Following Wolfe's rule might not have made any difference; you'd just have got, as in fact I just did in a kind of shabby Ruth Rendell novel published paperback in the seventies, two "X said"'s in a row.
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Date: 2004-03-08 03:36 pm (UTC)Pamela