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and presently the sub-editor came in and also decided to become a member. ‘ Why not ? ’ said Avdotiev, ‘ but not in our club. You’re a bit too late. Our membership is closed for 1929. You’d better join the “ Friends of the Children”. It’s cheap and quiet. It only costs twenty copecks a year and you don’t need to go anywhere by car.’ The sub-editor felt it was just as well, for he was getting on in years. He sighed and was going back to his leading article, when a handsome man stopped him in the corridor. ‘ TeU me, comrade,’ he said, ‘ where is the editor’s office ? ’ It was the great schemer again, Ostap Bender.