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CHAPTER I SOMEWHERE in the early dawn a church bell was chiming. Its thin, melodious sound made Charles stir in his sleep, and in the half-consciousness of awakening he thought, "Ah, it's good to be home again the church bells and the foghorns . . . how I've missed themi Because of them I'll...

Arlingfon, Wis. PORTRAIT OF A SPY . . . Six-foot-plus of whipcord strength, and he has something in his head besides bone. He has an almost phenomenal memory; a knowledge of many places, people, enemy weaponry and techniques. He doesn't just love sex, he enjoys it enormously. He prefers to like the...

He won the first contract bridge tournament ever played. Conceivably, he could win the last. Meanwhile, in a distinguished career covering a span of thirty-seven years, he has won the Vanderbilt Cup seven times, played in the famous Culbertson-Lenz Match, won more National Championships—and...

N82 knew he had made a mistake v/hen a door in the big building closed with a soft thud and the night insects stopped their chirping. Then the frogs in the landscaped pool, far to his left in the industrial park, v/ent silent. There was somebody moving in the darkness over there. It had been...

INTRODUCTIONWhoever invented the alphabet can be credited with symbolizing the grunts, hisses, and groans that evolved into language from primitive man's first attempts to make known his feelings to others. Language is the human way of conveying intelligence from one mind to another over the...