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conclude about its merits? Would you tell us," he<br />

changed legs and revealed the other trim ankle, "frankly,<br />

why are you, I might as well say, hiding here in a<br />

forest, like fugitives from the horrors of slavery?"<br />

"I would have preferred MIT, myself," replied<br />

Svatopluk. "I don't know who authorized us. I think you<br />

did. DDT of CIA of OSS. But that's by the by now.<br />

And what we're working on is just what you told us to<br />

work on. Defense viralization research. Biological<br />

warfare."<br />

Asked to debrief them briefly, and in his own<br />

words, as to the meaning of defense viralization<br />

research, Dr. Svatopluk gave his guests a lecture on<br />

microbiology, terrifying Mr. Eagerly by grabbing up,<br />

and indeed twirling on his fingers as he spoke, test tubes<br />

of presumed lethal matter. The head of Operation<br />

Archangel explained that there were certain deadly<br />

germs that occurred so rarely that a widespread<br />

outbreak of one, the plague, for example, would be<br />

highly suspect. There were other pathogens that might<br />

be common and might spread rapidly, like measles<br />

epidemics, but (a) they couldn't exist outside a living

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