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"Perhaps even to one--to a woman whom he might love?"
"I do, sir."
The president rose.
"Please wait in the anteroom for a few minutes," he directed.
Mr. Grimm bowed himself out. At the end of half an hour he was again
summoned into the cabinet chamber. The president met him with
outstretched hand. There was more than mere perfunctory thanks in
this--there was the understanding of man and man.
"You will proceed with the case to the end, Mr. Grimm," he instructed
abruptly. "If you need assistance ask for it; if not, proceed alone.
You will rely upon your own judgment entirely. If there are
circumstances which make it inadvisable to move against an individual by
legal process, even if that individual is amenable to our laws, you are
not constrained so to do if your judgment is against it. There is one
stipulation: You will either secure the complete rights of the wireless
percussion cap to this government or learn the secret of the invention
so that at no future time can we be endangered by it."
"Thank you," said Mr. Grimm quietly. "I understand."
"I may add that it is a matter of deep regret to me," and the president
brought one vigorous hand down on the young man's shoulder, "that our
government has so few men of your type in its service.
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