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earth’s the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or
the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really
piercing-you know, like the very hardest X-rays- when you’re writing about
that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing? That’s what it finally
boils down to. I try and I try .”
“Hush!” said Bernard suddenly, and lifted a warning finger; they listened. “I
believe there’s somebody at the door,” he whispered.
Helmholtz got up, tiptoed across the room, and with a sharp quick movement
flung the door wide open. There was, of course, nobody there.

“I’m sorry,” said Bernard, feelling and looking uncomfortably foolish. “I sup-
pose I’ve got things on my nerves a bit. When people are suspicious with you,
you start being suspicious with them.”
He passed his hand across his eyes, he sighed, his voice became plaintive. He
was justifying himself. “If you knew what I’d had to put up with recently,” he
said almost tearfully-and the uprush of his self-pity was like a fountain sud-
denly released. “If you only knew!”

Helmholtz Watson listened with a certain sense of discomfort. “Poor little Ber-
nard!” he said to himself. But at the same time he felt rather ashamed for his
friend. He wished Bernard would show a little more pride.

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