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I did not attempt to pursue it. With a man of less conscience thiscondition would easily have been offset by another wherein other rates,less arbitrary, would have been adjusted to negotiate the officialdeficit. It would be much more of a discovery to find a book in which hehas not been serious--a philosopher, a moralist, and a poet. The memory of those harried days still maddened him.

I read a few aloud, for the amusement of the others. The doctor was the only one who appeared pleased to see me; he bounded to his feet, cheeks rounded in a smile. I raised one arm so that my full sleeve covered my face, but I peered out from over it. Yes, Sitt.