You are disillusioned, Ausable told him, But take cheer, my youny friend.
Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women
have risked their lifes, come to me in the next-to-past step of its journey into
official hands. Someday soon that paper may well affect the course of histoy.
There is drama in that thought, don't you think? As he spoke, Ausable closed the door
behind him. Then he switched on the light.
It's not my balcony explain Ausable angrily. It belongs to the next apartment. He glanced
explanatorily at Fowler. you see, he said. This room used to be a large of unit, the next
room though that door there used to be the living room. It had a balcony, which extends
under my window now. You can get into it from the empty room next door, and somebody
did last month. The management promised to block it off. But the haven't.