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The Inheritors

CHAPTER SIX
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And so he's going to do something.

You understand ?" "Not in the least," I said, light-heartedly.
"Oh, it's the System for the Regeneration of the Arctic Regions--the Greenland affair of my friend de Mersch.

Churchill is going to make a grand coup with that--to keep himself from slipping down hill, and, of course, it would add immensely to your national prestige.

And he only half sees what de Mersch is or _isn't_." "This is all Greek to me," I muttered rebelliously.
"Oh, I know, I know," she said.

"But one has to do these things, and I want you to understand.


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