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Show -271- The Professor was about to assure her that not enough snow would f a l l to prevent t h e i r driving, when another of the guests did just that? "It won't stay? Don't worry," he said. "It never has?" another guest added. Some of the flakes were now pelting the plate-glass, turning again to liquid and running down the window. The l i g h t s of the towns below? even the usually bright lights of the c i t y in the distance, had been obliterated by the storm. Yet i t was not a bad stormy nowhere near as bad as the one two days ago, the Professor told himself? It was just that t h e a i r xas colder? The guests soon l o s t i n t e r e s t in i t and drifted back into their own small groups. The Professor remembered that he had not got his drink and returned to the bar? "Quite a flurry in the dovecote?" the bartender remarked as he fixed the Professor's drink? "Back in Ohio, xmere I grew up? t h i s kind of storm wouldn't cause a blink." The Professor turned to leave and saw the attorney from Austria a t the table in the dining room. He walked up to him just as the attorney was spearing a s l i c e of Turkey and placing i t on a piece of rye bread. "Guten Abend"? Herr Rechtsanwalt? ":'. he said? "Ach? der Herr Professor," the man replied; "Wie Geht's?" He continued piling more turkey on his bread? while the Professor pondered the question he wanted to ask? His German |