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After Elsa had rejected any further collaboration with me, I was forced at times to consult Nordenholt upon certain points in my schemes which seemed to me to require the criticism of a fresh mind; and I thus fell into the habit of seeing him in his office at intervals.
"Things are in a bad way, Jack," he said to me at the end of one of these interviews. "You don't see everything that's going on, of course; so you couldn't be expected to be on the alert for it; but it's only right to warn you that we're coming up against the biggest trouble we've had yet in the Area."