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Updated: June 20, 2025

Van Derwater's depth of human understanding, his lack of passion, his solitariness that had been likened to an air of impending tragedy, held his listeners with a magic no one could have explained. He might have come as a spirit of times that had passed, so charged with the ages was his strange, powerful personality. 'From an open sky, he continued, 'came the present war.

Arthur Beverley Baxter - The Parts Men Play