You didn’t disturb anything?” “Oh no. Oh no. That is, a lot of the papers simply flew out when the book was opened, but we put them back in place, I think.” “I don’t understand it. I thought Cropper was ubiquitous. You’d better keep this absolutely hush-hush, you understand, or it’ll all be winging its way across the Atlantic, whilst the London Library replaces its carpets and installs a coffee machine and Cropper sends us another of his nice helpful smiley-regretful faxes, offering access to the Stant Collection and every possible assistance with microfilm. You haven’t said anything to
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