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These people huddled here undoubtedly believed that the Allies were capable of the same atrocities that the Nazis had committed.
The German national anthem, Lucas thought, as he went closer; we didn’t ask questions.
A madman, on the other hand, couldn’t be relied upon to act in even his own best interest.
place where the sword of Damocles hung above it by only the most slender thread, forever after. How long, he wondered, could such a thread endure in a world filled with scissors?
Cardinal Newman had once said? “If I have them at six, I have them for life.”
In Christ’s name, I bound him then, and kept him prisoner.”
“It’s a pentagram,” her father said, to Simone’s surprise. “The symbol of evil?”
“Not originally. Until the Middle Ages, when it was finally supplanted by the cross, it was a symbol of Christ. The five points represented the five wounds to his body, and it was believed to protect the wearer from evil.”
“Even if one fights on the side of angels,” the professor continued, “it can feel as if one is doing the Devil’s work.
“The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.”
