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Revelation Research

salary, after the information he had carefully laid out in simple
English had been first appreciated, then exploited.
Honus Bellwether, ramrod-straight octogenarian chewing gum
magnate and eldest member of the board, began by clearing his
throat and saying, “I have read this cover to cover. If I understand
what Karp is telling us, we have very little time to react to it. I don’t
like that, but my decades of experience in the business world have
taught me to strike when the iron is hot. What do you think,
General?”
“You know what I think: we should have rounded up all these
sexual deviants and communist rabble-rousers a long time ago and
either straightened them out or kicked them out of the country!”
Lemuel E. Newcombe’s outburst was characteristic of the choleric
retired air force officer. He pounded the table around which they sat,
rattling the ashtrays.
“Maybe it’s not too late to wake up all these bleeding-heart liberals
and fellow-travelers to the dangers facing our Christian society! I say:
we’ve got the goods on them now, and we should let them have it
with both barrels! It’s like Sodom attacking Gomorrah—or the other
way around—and we’ve caught them in the act. We couldn’t have
done a better job ourselves in a covert operation, setting one group
against the other. Now we can go in and mop them up!”
Bellwether lifted his thatch of eyebrow and regarded the third
director, a small plump man in a tight-fitting suit. “And you,
Reverend Widdershins? Perhaps you have a theological slant on this
affair which will be of help.”
The churchman, a pedant without pulpit, riffled the pages of the
report searching for a reference point.
“Ah, yes, if I might contribute a few ideas to this colloquy. I find it
somewhat distressing that a considerable period of time elapsed
between the involvement of the young woman with those radical
feminists and the profound religious conversion she underwent. I
fear our critics might point to a guilty conscience rather than the
divine intervention we would prefer as the motivating factor in her
belated revelations. And the money we would have to provide for her
to take up a new life in Costa Rica could be misinterpreted as a bribe,
not as the life-saving aid she must have in order to survive.”
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