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Hans Reuter — Arthur Curtis’s painstakingly cultivated inforswerk arden any “Too ether”

Had they been speaking face-to-face instead of on the telephone, Arthur would have folded his hands calmly over his potbelly and listened with a sy voice and siic “They don’t knoe talk about They don’t know that I pay you money”

“I was followed last time”

“Are you sure?” Arthur Curtis asked more casually than he felt The fact was, after their lasthad German consuls in America on its payroll, Curtis had wondered whether he was being followed and had returned to the office by a circuitous route, after going to great lengths to shake the shadow, if indeed there had been a shado it sounded like there had been, and a very stealthy one at that He had to hand it to Krieg It hadn’t taken long to catch on to hi to end the threat The trouble was, his frightened infor in his e it out very slowly

“I am deadly sure,” Reuter replied “For all we know, they are listening in on this telephone wire”

“They would have to be soothsayers to listen in on telephone kiosks in post offices on opposite sides of Berlin”

“I would not be surprised if they were”

“I have an idea,” said Arthur Curtis

“No more ideas,” said Hans Reuter, and broke the connection

Arthur Curtis worked his way slowly back to the office Redoubling ordinary habits of caution, watching reflections in shop s, changing tra in and out of bakeries and cafes, he did not enter his building until he was one hundred percent sure that he was not being observed

Pauline was sitting behind his desk, reading his mail

“You should be home in bed It’s late”

“I’m not tired”