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Anna Klein stood in her small room and covered her mouth with her

hands, lest she shriek aloud She knew quite well that the boreat plant But she

knehat the result of its explosion would be

The shells were not loaded at the Spencer plant They were shipped away

for that But the fuses were loaded there, and in the s there were stored h to destroy a town It was there, of course, that Herman was to

place the bomb She kneould do it, carefully, ait he wouldthe alar the plant But when the voices below continued, long

after Herone, she was entirely desperate Herman had not

carried out the suit-case He had looked, indeed, arden path and closed the gate behind him He had walked

rather slowly, but then he alalked slowly She seeait, as of one who dreaded to stuers, and pinned on her hat

The voices still went on below,of

Rudolph's throat, irritated by cheap cigarets, the sound of glasses on

the table, once a laugh, guttural andback of their chairs, that they were preparing