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.`Look at it, Bob.Not a good omen?'The mist had returned, a sea of dirty cotton wool, blotting out the Bantiger and rolling slowly along the straight stretch of the Aare to envelop the city.Soon it would be drifting into the arcades, creating an eerie silence.`Come and have breakfast, an American breakfast,' Newman said, pulling her away from the window.'Bacon, eggs, croissants, rolls — the lot.How did you sleep?' he asked as they faced each other across the table.`I didn't — but I'm ravenous.'`You ate nothing last night.What especially kept you awake?'`Your conversation with Seidler inside that house.You translated some of it — but considerately not all.What you didn't realize was I know German rather well.It was my second language at high school.Then, a few weeks before I left St Thomas's — when we first met at Bewick's — I'd come back from Germany where I spent time with a German medical family.Do you really think they're using patients at the Clinic to test those gas masks, Bob?'`I'm convinced we still don't know the whole story.I'm not sure Grange's ultimate purpose ends with the testing of those Soviet masks.' He continued quickly.'Let's not talk about it until I've seen Grange, had a chance to weigh him up.Maybe we ought to take Jesse out of that place today.We could drive there immediately after breakfast if you agree.'I don't think it will do any good.Jesse will refuse — and without his consent we've no authority to force the issue.I want to talk to Grange myself first.And I'm sure Grange will play it cool until the reception is over.'`It's your decision.I'm not too happy about it,' Newman said and drank more coffee.'You seem very confident about this reception.You wouldn't know something you haven't told me?'`And what might that be, I'd like to know? You always want to do things your way,' she bridled.`You're tired.Forget it!'Tweed was on the warpath.After an early breakfast in the dining-room — he couldn't be fussed with Room Service — he left the hotel without delay to keep his appointment with Arthur Beck.He walked into the main entrance of the Taubenhalde, placed his passport on the receptionist's counter.At that moment Beck emerged from the lift.`Let's go straight up,' he invited Tweed.'Don't fill in a form.'Anyone who knew Tweed well would have recognized the danger signs.There was an intent expression in the eyes behind his spectacles.He crossed the hall to the lift with a brisk stride and the look on his face was forbidding as he stared at Beck.They travelled up to the tenth floor in silence, Beck unlocked the door with his key.In the hall beyond he took out a card and inserted it in the time clock before opening the door to his office.Tweed took off his coat and sat facing Beck across his desk.`Welcome to Berne once more,' Beck began.`I hope you will still think me welcome when we have ended this conversation,' Tweed warned.'I have come here because we are very worried about the Berne Clinic — and the experiments which are being carried out there, possibly under military supervision.'`I don't like your tone,' Beck replied stiffly.I don't like the reason for my visit.'`You are talking nonsense.Where have you picked up this nonsense about a Swiss clinic?'`From various sources.' Tweed dropped his bomb.'We know about Manfred Seidler.We have in London one of the gas masks he has supplied to the Berne Clinic.Our Ministry of Defence experts have examined it and confirmed it is the sophisticated type now issued to the Soviet chemical battalions.'Beck stood up, his expression frozen.He stood behind the desk, his hands thrust inside his jacket pockets, studying his visitor who gazed back at him.`Just supposing I found there was even one iota of truth in this extraordinary story, how would it concern you?'`It concerns the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Britain — both of whom are fighting to conclude a new treaty with Moscow, a treaty effectively banning the use of chemical warfare in Europe.You read the papers, don't you? Can you imagine the propaganda advantage Moscow would have if they could point to one single country in Western Europe — a country outside NATO at that — which was equipping its forces with chemical warfare units? It would give them just the excuse they need to continue building up their own resources in this diabolical field.That, Beck, is why I am here.That is why it concerns London [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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