The old bells, the ancient bells, the oldest voices in the world: Who knew? They might be eternal. He leaned against the door which had gently closed behind him and he cried. But for what he cried he did not fully know. Two months after Rory Daniel Armagh's assassination General Curtis Clayton attempted to address the Senate "to reveal what I know." He was denied. He wrote a book. It was never published, and the manuscript never found after his death. He implored the President to see him, and the President never answered. He tried the Press and the reporters listened to him with grave faces and dancing eyes. They never reported what he said. He died in the Army Hospital at Camp Meadows on the eve of the election of Woodrow Wilson. Some said he had committed suicide. His name was soon forgotten.
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