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There were questions of supplies and shipping
and bank credits to face, the vast and complex problems of the
complete new munition works, to be built out of town and involving
such matters as the housing of enormous numbers of employees. He
scrawled figures and added them. Even with the size of the foreign
contract their magnitude startled him. He leaned back, his mouth
compressed, the lines from the nostrils to the corners deeper than
ever.
He had completely forgotten Natalie and the country house.
Outside the gates to the mill enclosure he heard an early extra
being called, and bought it. The Austrian premier had been
assassinated. The successful French counter-attack against Verdun
was corroborated, also. On the center of the front page was the
first photograph to reach America of a tank. He inspected it with
interest. So the Allies had at last shown same inventive genius
of their own! Perhaps this was but the beginning. Even at that,
enough of these fighting mammoths, and the war might end quickly.


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