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who knew them as fellows who worked there had let them by. It was quite a tense moment. I had to be quite definite and hold myself in check. I couldn't be excited, or disturbed, or raise my voice, or anything of that sort which would show disturbance on my part. I just felt that this was the time when you don't show the slightest concern, alarm, or anything. I did insist, though, that they leave and that they leave their paper a right were they were on the floor. They needn't stop to put them back in the files. The file clerks would attend to that in the morning. They were just to leave them where they were.

They did go out, one by one, reluctantly. Of course, I have never know what might have been already stuffed into their pockets. They may have taken things, but I wasn't at that moment, going to worry about that. I knew they were rifling the files and that they were trying to get out of it either material that would be damaging to them personally, or more likely material, information, that they could use in the future personally in a crooked way to pressure, alarm and blackmail persons with whom they had come in contact during the period when they had a free- for-all investigation of anybody and anything. I was sure that that was their principal objective.

I waited until every one of them had left the





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