kind--"

"An eagle's nest."

"But the eaglets are starving."

"Heretofore the job has been served. Come along with me and meet Duke
Fallows again--"

"No. I must go back to the wire for the present. Boylan would be
shocked, too. By the way, I've got a bid in for you with General
Kohlvihr. Boylan is to help me put it through, of course. The more
decorated they are the more they fall for Boylan. There's a chance
that you'll start south with a column within two days. So you'd better
get at that encyclopedia stuff--"

"Yes, I'll attend to that."

Peter left him smiling, and turned his steps across the Square, into a
narrow street of the poor quarter, and on toward a little room and a
low lamp, where a woman's hands sewed magically as she waited.




Chapter 5


Fallows met them in his small bleak room, turned the lamp low, and
opened the door of the diminutive wood-stove to let the firelight in