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One must have something to explain orcounter-balance ones employer! My dear
girl, I havent a notion, the Chief Justice told her.
The possession of the
Stone would have to be made illegal.
I desire-I will-to see-what was his
name?
A hand-not Chloes, not the Hajjis, was closing round theStone in his own
hand. He doesnt care about Suleiman-or Charlemagne-or .
I wonder, Lord
Arglaysaid, still staring at it, if pondon caught the connexion.
Lord
Birlesmere stood leaning on the table for some time.
We want to be careful only
to look, hesaid.
They must either abandon theStone to chance and itself or they
must seek to possess it. But Im damned if he seemsto, unless the Stones gone
wrong.
She looks as if she were going through it too. I know nothing whatever
about relics, Sheldrake answered.
I shall be extremely careful, Lord Arglay
told her. You attend to Tumulty,Birlesmere, he said. Practically nothing at the
moment, Lord Birlesmere substituted.
Montague, would you mind telling us where
you gotthe Stone?
But I shall do no good at all by beingstuck in last Friday. A
hand-not Chloes, not the Hajjis, was closing round theStone in his own hand. I
should think you were the first of the English to do it.
But dare I believe
that theStone is of God? I hate being foolish and I dislikebeing pious, Arglay
said.
Do be careful, Chloe said, with considerable restraint. So if I believe
it must be in a god consonantwith me. As the others jumped and gaped Arglay
said to Chloe, You cant do anymore.
And then we will free Giless prisoner in
the past. But dont forgetwe are rather relying on the Stone to assist us.
For
the Law is greaterthan the Courts, and in the end the Courts shall submit to
the Law.
Mutiny mightbe dangerous but transit of this sort would be safe and
easy.
And if Idscreamed at them no one would have done anything. No longer
strongbut very faint the same voice said to her: Go on, child. It took longer
to satisfy the American than the scientist.
There came to her a phrase -he
Surveyof Organic Law.
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