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"Let's leave it at this: they didn't get him to Command School a day too soon And maybe a couple of years too late"

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VALENTINE

"Children?"

"Brother and sister They'd layered the for companies that paid for their membershi

ps, that sort of thing Devil of a ti them down "

"Wha t are they hiding?"

"Could be anything The es The boy is fourteen, the girl is twelve"

"Which one is Demosthenes?"

"The girl The twelve-year-old"

"Pardon h All this ti to persuade the Russians not to take Demosthenes too seriously, we held up Locke as proof that Aers Brother and sister, pubescent--"

"An d their last nain"

"AhCoincidence?"

"The Wiggin is a third They are one and two "