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" Hullo, Marryatt, is that you?"

"Yes; who's speaking?"

"It's about Brotherhood. You'll guess before I've finished who it is speaking, so I'd better tell you at once; it's Reeves. I am going to talk to you for about ten minutes through this tube, and you'll see for yourself as I go along that it's to your own interest to hear me out to the end. I've chosen this way of speaking to you purposely, so as to save you the embarrassment of an interview. But, of course, it's no good your trying to interrupt, because I shouldn't hear if you did.

"I have managed to trace your movements during this last week pretty exactly, and I'm going to describe them to you, so that you can see how much I know, and how little use it is for you to try and put up any denial. Of course, I may make little mistakes about the details, but I think you'll find that there is not much wrong.

"I can understand you not liking Brotherhood; few of us did. But while the rest of us simply disliked him, you hated him. Whether you hated him before he began giving his atheist lectures I