“Will you talk to Colonel Beigbeder about this, or would you rather I told him about it myself?” Serrano didn’t reply right away. First I heard him light a cigarette. His umpteenth one. “Do you really think it’s absolutely essential to do that?” he asked after breathing out his first drag of smoke. “The installations will be located in the Spanish Protectorate, so I suppose he ought to know something about it.” “Leave it to me, then. El Caudillo will inform him directly. And as to the terms of the agreement, best not to let any details out. That can be kept between us,” he added as the German
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