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I am of a slightly independent frame of mind, and I find it a bit hard to swallow. I have so far, however, and I am certain that he has no idea how I feel. But he is getting more and more obstreperous all the time, and I anticipate serious trouble. If
If you don't straighten matters out now, I doubt very much that we will be granted permission to continue digging. And I would rather (and you know what that would mean to me) resign than appear personally responsible for the impending cataclysm. At my stage in life that would damn me forever. I hate to appear selfish, but I have had to fight pretty hard for whatever I have acquired so far in life, and I hate the thought of losing it all over such a matter as Mr. Dikaios' moods.
But, far above any such purely personal considerations, I have built up great hopes for
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