The Major seemed oblivious while I stared at him during dinner. Jack, who also came, tried to pat my thigh several times, but I kept staring at the Major. Why did he come to the Bureau of Doom and offer them the secret intelligence? After I got a tour of the facilities, I occupied a desk by the window, pushing the secretary away, pointing out she should be closer to the door. She seemed upset, but then, she runs around the building so much, and her desk is so empty, it wasn't too hard to present her with a fait accompli. Mr. Bamber gave me the key to the safe after I signed a simple confidentiality agreement, and I spent the afternoon translating the documents the Major brought (thankfully, they had an Yllamese-Kalmari dictionary in the storage room, too). These were copies of many doc

