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A mystery visitor

Atlas Shrugged – Day 045 – pp. 439-448

Now we cut back to the Taggart Trans commissary where Eddie is chatting with his anonymous friend once again.

I like Eddie Willers. He’s a good guy. I wonder if there’s going to be a bigger role in this whole story for him.

Anyway, Eddie’s troubled. Hank and Danagger are busted and going on trial next month. Eddie had spoken to Dagny about the coming trial. She’s afraid for Danagger. That he won’t be able to stand the pressure. She believes that as these economic and personal stresses shift from man to man, they each disappear in turn. As if they’re marked men. . .

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One step from victory. . .

Atlas Shrugged – Day 033 – pp. 324-333

As Dagny gets ready to leave, Ivy is babbling on about how she never concerned herself with the things in the lab. But she does remember the Chief of the lab’s name.

“William Hastings. That was his name — William Hastings. I remember. He went off to Brandon, Wyoming. He quit the day after we introduced the plan. He was the second man to quit us . . . No, No, I don’t remember who was the first. He wasn’t anybody importnat.”

The guy possibly overseeing the building of a revolutionary motor not sticking around for a socialist ass-whuppin’. Go figure. But he was not the first. Who was? Maybe the guy inventing the motor? No one important?

But it’s off to Wyoming.

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