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New York.
GENTLEMEN,--In view of the government's anti-trust investigation,
I have prepared this list of inventions we have suppressed.
I think we should discuss at our annual meeting
the advisability of surrendering our rights to these inventions,
no matter what may happen to the corporations we have
been protecting.
Very truly yours,
PETER BRENT.
Following this letter was a bulky paper, or rather set of papers, which
detailed the inventions and their history, exposing some of the
nefarious operations of the corporation.
Balcom, as he read the top letter, showed great agitation. As Locke took
the package from Eva, Balcom interrupted:
"That's very dangerous," he said. "If it gets out, the corporations are
ruined."
Locke scarcely replied. Instead, he very ostentatiously replaced the
document in the safe, refusing to intrust it either to Balcom or to
Paul, who withdrew sullenly, leaving Eva alone with Locke in the library
as Locke whirled the combination of the closed safe door.
It was perhaps half an hour later in the secret den of the Automaton in
the rock-hewn foundation of Brent Rock that the emissaries were watching
the arched and dark passage.
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