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beside your incident, among whom you have spent so many years practicing your acts of detection. For you, that's where it should come from, not from a conventional medical office." Inspector my feeling is that you are over fifty years of age, that your work is sedentary and that you might be well advised to let well enough alone. You have pulled out of a horrific ordeal and it might be wise to leave those slipping fragments than to risk another hospital bout. I would even worry about a general anesthetic after the trauma, the blood in the airways and the infection in the lungs, if I were really your doctor and not the instrument of the deity in which you believe. I think I would wait to convince myself that the [??] clavicle is anything but a relatively mild nuisance. Better stay around here, Inspector, and we'll continue our conversation It begins to look as if the port will be completely paralyzed before long, and none of us will be able to load and get out." It's as if the sun of shipping were setting, and a sort of scruffy twilight were settling down on us. Last night I heard a banshee on the wharf below my porthole bawling, "What ? can, 'bout you old boat!" "No, they don't care, and the twilight would last for a good many weeks. But there it will finally be settled and the loading and the unloading will begin again. It's trade that pushes the world around. People think it's politics, but even the politicians are secondary to traders. The traders don't say much and they keep out of the headlines, but behind everything else they're the ones who hold the empires up or let them fall. You'll be heading for the Gulf before the strike is really called, Doctor, I gather you're retired. Why did you retire?" "I suppose it was because of a growing sense of alienation. The world of medicine has undergone a revolution which