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Yet solid … certain. ” Audley nodded. “You see, I talked to this—well, i suppose you'll name him knowledgeable on human greed… . And he stated that the ownership of gold does issues to humans. He made it sound like a contagious sickness. ” “Contagious? ” “Infectious too—you confirmed a symptom or your self simply now. however the contagious type is the worst, and Charlie had obtained that badly. simply because he’d dealt with the stuff… he’d felt the burden of it, and visible the gorgeous color of it. Which was once why it didn’t shock him one bit that i used to be ready to kill and betray for it—he recognized his personal indicators subconsciously. ” “And two times the gold made him two times as grasping, you suggest? ” “Maybe. yet I don’t imagine he could have obvious it like that in any respect. simply because what the Russians had given him used to be their gold. What I’d got—what i'd be taking from his land correct less than his nose—that was once his gold. And he couldn’t undergo the concept of it, it was once worthy virtually any probability to prevent that—and he couldn’t undergo the chance that Gates or Bishop may perhaps say ‘no’ to the danger being taken. So he needed to take it himself. ” Clinton studied him. “You sound as if you have been very certain of him. ” “Not completely. yet there has been something i used to be yes of. ” “And what used to be that? ” Audley’s eye used to be stuck for an immediate via the wealthy shades of the plants within the fireplace. “I basically met one guy who’d truly noticeable Charlie Ratcliffe in action—who knew him as he used to be. … He used to be an previous gardener who beloved becoming flowers—the gardener at Standingham citadel. ” Clinton waited. “He acknowledged Ratcliffe was once a chancer. So I gave him his likelihood, Fred. That’s all. And he took it. ” Author’s observe THE SEALED KNOT, the King’s military and the Roundhead organization, that are pointed out in passing during this tale, are genuine corporations. The Double R society and its participants under no circumstances resemble those admirable and blameless teams, other than possibly in such virtues as they might proportion. No comparability among the genuine and the fictitious is meant. nevertheless, the tale of Soviet Russia’s acquisition of the gold of the Spanish Republic is an issue of background; as is usually that of common Krivitsky, the one-time leader of Soviet army Intelligence in Western Europe, who escaped to inform the tale—and to die in suspicious situations in a Washington inn in 1941.