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On the other hand, what if a virus could be<br />

developed by modifying the very DNA by which we<br />

live, and what if that virus could imperceptibly alter the<br />

human heart? And what if no diagnostic test could<br />

detect it? And no antitoxin could arrest it? And no one<br />

need ever know it was being done?<br />

Now that, thought Dr. Svatopluk's team, would be<br />

interesting; that would be worthy of the chief of<br />

Operation Archangel.<br />

part three<br />

chapter 23<br />

Gloria.<br />

The birds began it. Lift up your heart! Lift up<br />

your voice! Rejoice!<br />

Again, I say, rejoice! Over the marshlands and<br />

over the ridge and over Madder the sun came to<br />

Dingley Falls. First to watch it rise above the horizon,<br />

like a whaling ship come home again, was Ramona on<br />

her widow's walk. In her wheelchair she had waited to<br />

see the sun coming. "Fill me, radiancy divine. Scatter all

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