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“Just a moment.” Wally’s fingers were gripping the edges of the paper with intensity, and his equally intense eyes were scouring an article describing the latest German protests against the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, particularly the protests of a young Munich politician named Adolf Hitler, whom the author of the article described as having known the terms of the treaty in detail before their public announcement, even their conception (according to some unnamed sources), and who had thus sparked talk of an investigation into leaks by the Allied delegations gathered outside Paris.

“Wally.”

“Yes?”

“Put the newspaper away, and turn off the lamp.”

Wally did as he was told, and pulled his wife down onto the bed under the cover of darkness. He proceeded with his “husbandly duties,” and fell into a deep sleep afterwards, a sleep disturbed by dreams of a little moustached man laughing at him and at the rest of the world.