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Updated: May 8, 2025
"We must keep a close watch upon Calastia, and allow no one to leave its borders. As for Ernol, I have concluded that the best thing will be turn him loose!" They looked at him in consternation.
And I've been on your tail ever since." His eyes glowed with anger. Mona watched him in silence as she circled nearer. Norbith! The commission's deputy in Calastia; he represented all that was evil and cruel in the government. It was he who did the nasty work, the things which Powart himself was too much of a gentleman to do. Norbith the strong, cruel right arm on an unjust law!
Here, lying on a couch, was a man whom the doctor soon identified. He was none other than Mona's patient, Eklan Norbith, the commission's deputy in Calastia. He was a burly, dark-featured fellow; and even though rigid in his plaster cast, he looked competent and formidable. "Ernol," said he in a heavy, domineering voice, "there is no need to state the case to a man of your intelligence.
Had he been on the spot, the uprising would have been checked before any one heard of it. "But it now seems that Calastia, during the last few hours, has become a seething hotbed of rebellion. Of course, we have isolated the district, and a search for arms is now in progress. "The head of the recalcitrants is a man named Ernol.
I haven't seen him around for weeks?" "Don't know, exactly," with some uneasiness. "He went back to Calastia, and that's the last I heard of him." "Calastia? I saw an item in the paper last night, to the effect that Calastia was under quarantine. All news cut off." The man instantly smelled a mouse. "Quarantine! Why should that cause the news to be cut off?
I took them in the dead of night, by flashlight, in the library of the University of Calastia. "They are" he paused portentously "reproductions of pages from the secret census!" To most of the men this meant something highly significant. They cranned their necks in their excitement. "I am going to pass them around, negatives and all. You see where I have checked off the most important items.
Alma is a sort of a hobby with me; I wouldn't mind taking the trip myself." There was a long pause. Powart waited, as though in expectation of further remarks, then gave another glance at his memoranda and began: "Of course, we are mainly concerned with the demonstration in Calastia. As to its cause, I may mention that Eklan Norbith was in a hospital at the time, having a substitution.
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