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"Are you sure of your facts?"

"I don't create fiction," Marganin est you act on e we have been looking for"

"I will have her identified before sunset" The stranger began slurping his soup noisily "Anything else?"

"I need data on the Sicilian Project"

"I never heard of it"

Marganin lowered the book and rubbed his eyes, keeping a hand in front of his lips "It's a defense project connected soency"

"They may prove fussy about leaks on defense projects"

"Tell them not to worry It will be handled discreetly"

"Six days from now The men's toilet of the Borodino Restaurant Six-forty in the evening" Marganin closed his book and stretched

The stranger slurped another spoonful of soup in acknowledganin, who rose and strolled off in the direction of the Soviet Naval Building

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The President's secretary sot up fro, and had a friendly, eager face

"Mrs Seagram, of course Please step this way"

He led Dana to the White House elevator and stood aside for her to enter She put on a show of indifference, staring straight ahead If he knew or suspected anything, he'd be lance at the secretary's face; his eyes rehts

The doors opened and she followed him down the hall and into one of the third-floor bedrooms