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any moment with a message about something far more important than the matter under discussion; he was for all the world, Scott-King thought, like the clerk in the food office at Granchester. night. We shall walk from here. The taxis are so expensive—the double fare operates after nine o’clock.”
They walked. Dr. Fe ascended the steps of the Ministry. “Back to work,” he said. “I have had an urgent summons to report to my chief. We work late in the New Neutralia.”
There was nothing furtive about his ascent but it was swift. Scott-King caught him as he was about to enter a lift.
“But, I say, where am I to go?”
Scott-King’s had been lived far from chanceries, but once, very many years ago at Stockholm, he had been asked to luncheon, by mistake for someone else, at the British Embassy. Sir Samson
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