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All these developments were so quick that Ronald Braybrooke had hardly time to follow them. The cleverest man in the world would have been powerless to save the situation, and it now looked quite likely to become a catastrophe.
Archibald Colville stood there shading his eyes with his hands and trying to make something out of the tangled knot of figures before him.