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An hour later, Theo Trist was again seated in the editor's room. The large-headed man himself was also present at his desk, amidst a chaos of newspaper-cuttings and manuscripts.
"And now, Trist," he was saying in his terse, businesslike way, "suppose anything should go wrong. If you are killed, who shall I tell, and how shall I tell it?"