Certain casual phrases that had fallen from the old manwith whom he had talked in the darkness recurred to him. TheSurveyor-General, in effect, endorsed the old man's words. "We haveabolished Cram," he said, a phrase Graham was beginning to interpretas the abolition of all sustained work. The Surveyor-General becamesentimental.
There was really no flaw whatever thathe could see in the scheme. He was quite sure he knew how to cut histhroat, deep at the side and not to saw at the windpipe, and he... read more
