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Show -316- as the campus. Inside, he seemed to be more in the foyer of a bank of a small hotel than in a university building. Before rtoiA/~ him xas a tMftto of elevators and a directory. The English Department, i t seemed, occupied the fifth and sixth floors. A clock on one xall told him that i t xas eleven-thirty. That was xrhy the entrance to the building xas so quiet. Classes xrere in session on the upper floors. He entered an elevator and pressed the button for the fifth floor. He rose swiftly and s i l e n t l y , and the door opened automatically. Here, too, there xas l i t t l e a c t i v i t y . He xalked doxm a hallxay, studying the identification cards of faculty members posted on the xall beside the doors. More than half the faculty seemed to be nexr, including the person whose name he had been given to contact. As he stood before a door with the name of one of his old friends on i t , the door opened, and his friend appeared before him. "Hello," he said, startled only a t seeing someone standing in the doorway, not surprised that i t xas the Professor. "I heard you were coming? Come on in." This friend had a face that alxays looked a l i t t l e surprised, although his manner belied i t . He had boon a young man xrhen the Professor f i r s t knew him, an instructor xrhen the Professor had s t i l l been a graduate student. Now he was gray, and, the Professor supposed, one of the older members of the department. He shook the Professor's hand and ushered him into the |