The
very record you are so proud of has made George Fleetwood
innumerable enemies in the last two years. The Lead Trust people are
determined to ruin him, and if his reappointment is attacked you
will not be spared."
"Attacked? In the papers, you mean?"
She paused. "You know the 'Spy' has always threatened a campaign.
And he has a past, as you say."
"Which was public property long before I first appointed him.
Nothing could be gained by raking up his old political history.
Everybody knows he didn't come to me with clean hands, but to hurt
him now the 'Spy' would have to fasten a new scandal on him, and
that would not be easy."
"It would be easy to invent one!"
"Unproved accusations don't count much against a man of such proved
capacity. The best answer is his record of the last two years. That
is what the public looks at."
"The public looks wherever the press points. And besides, you have
your own future to consider. It would be a pity to sacrifice such a
career as yours for the sake of backing up even as useful a man as
George Fleetwood.
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