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The Reluctant Agent<br />

A Compelling Story of Espionage<br />

Chapter 12<br />

The Byer Tapes<br />

Will's life was a mess. The only stable element was Dorothy, and the expected<br />

arrival, and he was perilously close to destabilizing even that. Dorothy was now<br />

seven months and had left work. There was no income coming in, and what little<br />

they had accumulated in the bank, would soon be gone.<br />

All the external forces instrumental with putting him under pressure had now<br />

ceased. Even the organization had stopped contacting him, probably because<br />

Margaret would be into reorganizing, which could take quite some time, perhaps<br />

as much as a year.<br />

As each day passed he was slowly coming to the realization that he was sitting<br />

waiting for something to happen, but nothing did. There was plenty of work out<br />

there but he was scared to make a move in case he got thrust into turmoil once<br />

again. Dorothy kept suggesting that he should perhaps try to get work locally.<br />

Every evening on the train he had noticed a small factory located just before his<br />

stop. The name was Watson Victor and they manufactured Electro-Medical<br />

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