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You see,” said Dr. Antonic, as the door closed, “she is always hopeful. Now I do not hope. Do you think,” he asked, “that in Neutralia Western Culture might be born again? That this country has been preserved by Destiny from the horrors of war so that it can become a beacon of hope for the world?”
“No,” said Scott-King.
“Do you not?” asked Dr. Antonic anxiously. “Do you not? Neither do I.”
That evening Miss Bombaum and Scott-King took a cab to the suburbs and left it at a café where they met a man who had sat with Miss Bombaum in the Ritz on her first evening. No names were exchanged.
“Who’s this guy, Martha?”
“An English friend of mine I want you to help.”
“Going far?”
“England. Can he see the chief?”
“I’ll go ask. He’s on the level?”
“Surely.”
“Well, stick around while I ask.”
He went to telephone and returned saying, “The chief ’ll see him.
We can drop him off there, then have our talk.”
They took another cab and drove further from the city into a district of tanneries and
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