He went to the London Library, at the top of which is an excellent shelf of spiritualist writings, and asked for The Shadowy Portal, which was out to another reader. He tried the British Library, whose copy had been, he was informed by a polite note, destroyed by enemy action. He sent off to Harmony City for a microfilm, and waited. James Blackadder, with none of Cropper’s gusto, was picking his way through the London Library’s Shadowy Portal. He too had begun in total ignorance of the movements of Christabel LaMotte, and lacked Cropper’s certain knowledge of any connection between LaMotte and
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