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Kate Lingen bent her head attentively to hear, but Barca appeared to have changed his mind again. The woman shrugged her shoulders in a petulant sort of way. She knew precisely the class of man she had to deal with. Then she waited for him to speak.
"I am the prince of fools," he said. "Do you know what I am in a position to do? For the last ten years I have been working night and day on one of the most stupendous discoveries ever made. I could revolutionise the whole theory of surgery. I should be a great man, people would point to me as I walk down the street, riches and honours would be showered upon me."