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 Society of the Friends of Peace, always a member."

An undercurrent of stern approval from those seated round the table drove the plain words home.

"All that you say, sir, I recognized at the time," said Endor. "So much I freely own. But as I now wish to make clear, owing to a cause which in a measure was physical I was then suffering from an eclipse of the moral judgment."

Lien Weng shook his head gently. There was a brief pause. And then with the peculiar amenity of a deep mind at grips with destiny itself, he went on as if nothing had occurred, to expound the position the Society had now reached in the matter of Saul Hartz and the Universal Press.