“It exists to a dangerous degree. My reports for the last twelve months make it sufficiently clear.” “Your reports for the last twelve months,” State Councillor Wurmt began in his gentle and dispassionate tone, “have been read by me. I failed to discover why you wrote them at all.” A sad silence reigned for a time. Mr Verloc seemed to have swallowed his tongue, and the other gazed at the papers on the table fixedly. At last he gave them a slight push. “The state of affairs you expose there is assumed to exist as the first condition of your employment. What is required at present is not
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