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"You knohat the Russian troop movements have been There's al-ways the chance that Deht In which case--"

"We'd better have Deht We'll show them clean, for now But watch the the Russians calm"

In spite of all herDe carried on practically every newsnet in the country, and it was fun to watch the money pile up in her attorney's ac-counts Every now and then she and Peter would, in Demosthenes' name, donate a carefully calculated suh money that the donation would be noticed, but not soto buy a vote She was getting so many letters now that her newsnet had hired a secretary to answer certain classes of routine correspondence for her The fun letters, from national and international leaders, someti to pry into De in delight so to children, and didn't know it

So Deularly; he never read Locke, or if he did, he said nothing about it At dinner, though, he would often regale the point Demosthenes had made in that day's column Peter loved it when Father did that--"See, it shows that the co attention"--but it made Valentine feel humiliated for Father If he ever found out that all this ti the columns he told us about, and that I didn't even believe half the things I wrote, he would be angry and ashamed

At school, she once nearly got thened the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns Valentine was careless, and did a brilliant job of analysis As a result, she had to work hard to talk the principal out of having her essay published on the very newsnet that carried Dee about it "You write too et published, I should kill De out of control"

If he raged about that blunder, Peter frightened her still more when he went silent It happened when Demosthenes was invited to take part in the President's Council on Education for the Future, a blue-ribbon panel that was designed to do nothing, but do it splendidly Valentine thought Peter would take it as a triumph, but he did not "Turn it down," he said

"Why should I?" she asked "It's no work at all, and they even said that because of Demosthenes' well-known desire for privacy, they would net all the s It makes Demosthenes into a respectable person, and--"

"And you love it that you got that before I did"

"Peter, it isn't you and me, it's Demosthenes and Locke We made them up They aren't real Besides, this appointment doesn't mean they like Demosthenes better than Locke, it just er base of support You kneould Appointing hie number of Russian-haters and chauvinists"

"It wasn't supposed to work this way Locke was supposed to be the respected one"

"He is! Real respect takes longer than official respect Peter, don't be angry at s you told me to do"

But he was angry, for days, and ever since then he had left her to think through all her own colu her what to write He probably assumed that this would make the quality of Demosthenes' columns deteriorate, but if it did no one noticed Perhaps itfor help She had been De now to need anyone to tell her what Des

And as her correspondence with other politically active citizens grew, she began to learn things, inforeneral public Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without ether to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloody earthbound war De to suspect that the Second Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terue

And the character of Deradually took on a life of his own At ti like De with ideas that were supposed to be calculated poses And sometimes she read Peter's Locke essays and found herself annoyed at his obvious blindness to as really going on

Perhaps it's i what you pretend to be She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a colu that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to the It was a lovely bite at the party in power, and she got a lot of good htened of the idea of becoree, Deave hiht