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considered what to do next He would have to move on some tian preparations toup the accu for destruction He picked up so the there, inside his doorway in the Mexican dusk, he read of

Graha, and the fact that he had won the

Croix de Guerre Supree stuff!" he muttered But in the depths of his warped soul there

was bitter envy He kneith what frightened yet adoring eyes Anna

Klein had devoured that news of Grahairl in the compound back of the "Oith Anna Klein's eyes,

filled when she looked at him with that bitterest scorn of all, the

conteht he went to the Owl He had shaved and had his hair cut and

he wore his only reing gate in the railing which separated the dancing-floor fro in that saddest waiting

of all the world, along the wall There was an ominous silence at his

approach He planted hiirl with eyes like Anna

Klein

"Are you going to dance?"