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As the work advanced, he found an unexpected enthusias The steel

established Its days went on monotonously The boy found it noisy,

dirty, without appeal to his iination But the shell plant was

different There were new proble and output

He was, however, reluctantly co to the conclusion that the break

with Germany was the final step that the Government intended to take

That it would not declare war

However, the break had done so It had provided him with men

from the local National Guard to police the plant, and he found the

govern a new interest, an official interest, in his safety

Agents froence and the Departents into the plant In the

building where men and women were hired, each applicant passed a desk

where they were quietly surveyed by two unobstrusive gentlemen in

indifferent business suits who eyed theirls and wouard was posted, day and night