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[Stiegman <vio...@ca...>]

 our way?" He got up and went to the window. It was a dull foggy day,
and there was frost on the ground. He stared outside for some moments.
"What, I repeat, stands in our way?" "Well?" "The Church, and a mass of
superstitions that we have inherited from the Old Testament. That's what
stands in our way. We still attach more value to the Old Testament than
to the New. The Scotch, for example, like the Jews.... Yes, of
course.... What was I saying?" He left the window and sat down once more
before me, moving rather listlessly. "Yes, Harden. Of course. That's
what it is, isn't it? Do you remember--diddle--yes it was diddle,
diddle----" He paused and frowned. "Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the
fiddle," he muttered, "Yes--hey, diddle, diddle, diddle--that's what it
is, isn't it?" "Of course," I said. "It's all really that." "Just
diddle, diddle, diddle?" "Yes--if you like." "That is substituting
diddle for riddle," he said earnestly. He frowned again and passed his
hand across his eyes. "Yes," I said calmly. "It's going a step up." I
suppose about half an hour passed before either of us spoke again after
this extraordinary termination to our conversation. In absolute silence
we sat facing one another and during that time I saw the blue stain
growing clearer and clearer in Jason's eyes. At last he rose. "It's very
odd," he said. "Tell me, were you like this?" "How do you feel?" "As if
I had been drunk and suddenly had been made sober. I will leave you. I
want to think. I will go down to the country." "And your papers?" "We
must have a new Press," he said, and left the room. That same day the
great railway accident occurred just outside London that led to the
death of six