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62 HAROLD They weren't Javanese at all! The Dutchman said they were brought there from India--because of theft, he thought!

PRETORIA My mother didn't kill herself because of my baby! Edward admitted it!

HAROLD The filth and poverty in which that child died were thoroughly unnecessary! One doesn't need prophetic vision to see that!

PRETORIA Harold! I'm not responsible!

HAROLD The money-starved Dutchman couldn't see through the wealth he sucked in the human resources he wasted. The bungling use they made of manpower could only lead to a violent reversal.

PRETORIA Harold! Please help me. We tried to find my brother! We sent help to father!

DARIUS STARK Cecil, are you sure it was the right man we sent that aid to?

HAROLD We've finally learned that inefficiency and insubordination have to be controlled all the way down to departmental levels.

CECIL I don't know what you mean, dad. If it's in our files/

DARIUS STARK Stop that jibberish! Those people last year--