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Fitz had not yet arrived when the Colonel in his eagerness stepped in front of me, and peered through the hole in the glass partition which divided Fitz's inner and outer offices.
"Come inside, Colonel, and wait -- expect him after a while," was the reply from one of the clerks, -- the first arrival.