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Tuke was lean and bony, tired, disgruntled and cantankerous; his heavy dark spectacles gave him a look that was somehow sinister. For ten years he had been news editor, but had been passed over for the managing editorship when he had come to regard it as his right. But he had always been a bit below grade, and a martinet who could never keep men’s loyalties, or stand four-square to a crisis or bluff.