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THE Executive stopped for a moment and scrutinized his visitors quizzically; then he laughed. "May I inquire, gentlemen, whence arises this gloom?"
The Auditor bowed low. "Good sir," he said, "your Excellency fails to distinguish between gloom and the gravity of sages."