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Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER I
They started giving me the business as soon as I came through the door into the Secretary‘s outer office.
There was Ethel K‘wang-Li, the Secretary‘s receptionist, at her desk. There was Courtlant Staynes, the assistant secretary to the Undersecretary for Economic Penetration, and Norman Gazarin, from Protocol, and Toby Lawder, from Humanoid Peoples‘ Affairs, and Raoul Chavier, and Hans Mannteufel, and Olga Reznik.
It was a wonder there weren‘t more of them watching the condemned man‘s march to the gibbet: the word that the Secretary had called me in must have gotten all over the Department since the offices had opened.
"Ah, Mr. Machiavelli, I presume," Ethel kicked off.
"Machiavelli, Junior." Olga picked up the ball. "At least, that‘s the way he signs it."
"God‘s gift to the Consular Service, and the Consular Service‘s gift to Policy Planning," Gazarin added.
"Take it easy, folks. These Hooligan Diplomats would as soon shoot you as look at you,
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