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Rh in France. I hadn't been able to understand how the French could develop, largely within two years, their amazingly successful intelligence system. It had seemed miraculous that at the same time they should have brought to so little the German system of many decades' growth. In these faces the answer lay. One saw there an infinite capacity for sacrifice. One read also that alert watchfulness, that greed for justice. And the entire country is to some extent like that, because there are few who haven't suffered personally from this war with its new and intolerable methods. Every man and woman is a potential trapper of spies.

Moreover, as I looked, it seemed to me that on the simple altar before which these determined people worshipped, the supernal and France had become inextricably tangled.