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"Just leave word for him to call me on my private line when he returns"
"Shall do"
"And one ht toeles"
"Yes, sir"
He clicked the switch to off and leaned back in the chair thoughtfully Adeline Hobart, over ninety years old He hoped to God she wasn't senile
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Donner didn't normally stay in a don hotel He preferred the arden variety rounds that local cooperation coator when he lets it be known that he has a rooator, the word nauseated him If one of his fellow professors on the University of Southern California cao that his doctorate in physics would lead hi Donner wasn't laughing now The Sicilian Project was far too vital to the country's interests to risk a leak through outside help He and Seagraned and created the project on their own, and it was agreed that they'd take it as far as they could alone
He left his rented Ply attendant and walked across Tre doors, and into the pleasantly ornate lobby, where the young e without so much as a smile Donner took it without so much as a thank you, then made his way to the elevators and his room
He slae on the desk and turned on the television It had been a long and tiresoton, DC time He dialed room service and ordered dinner, then kicked off his shoes, loosened his tie, and sagged onto the bed
For perhaps the tenth tie It ; if, that is, Donner's interest lay in advertiseewith editorials on the Denver City Council's determination to clear such-and-such street of sinful houses of entertainuaranteed to asp in innocent horror
CORONER'S REPORT
Last week, the habitués of the Paris Morgue were greatly puzzled by a curious India-rubber leg that lay exposed for recognition on one of the slabs It appears that the body of an elegantly dressed woed about 50, had been found in the Seine, but the body was so decomposed that it could not be kept It was reh, had been replaced by an ingeniously constructed India-rubber leg, which was exhibited in the hope that it ht lead to the identification of the owner
Donner smiled at the quaint piece of history and turned his attention to the upper-right-hand section of the page, the part that Koplin had said wasfrom the paper he'd discovered on Novaya Zemlya
DISASTER AT THE MINES
Tragedy struck like a vengeful wraith early thiswhen a dynael Mine near Central City, trapping ninethe well-known and respected ineer, Joshua Hays Brewster