"That, and Captain Fine to step in as control."
"We'll start with that, then," Bruce said.
"Unless I hear an objection, I will ask Fine if there is some reason he cannot, or thinks he should not, take over as control."
He looked at Stevens, then at Helene Dancy, and finally at Fine.
"No, Sir," Fine said.
"So ordered," Bruce said.
"One thing, Stanley," Stevens said.
"Charity is cleared for this. All the way."
"Yes, Sir," Fine said.
"I want to clarify that, Stan," Bruce said.
"Charity is to be brought into anything connected with this that Colonel Stevens and myself are."
"Yes, Sir," Fine repeated.
"Well, why don't you sit here," Bruce said, "and take over this meeting?"
"I don't mind standing, Sir," Fine said.
"I'd rather walk around," Bruce said, and gestured for Fine to sit down.
Fine sat down at Bruce's desk, put a lined pad on the green blotter in front of him, and took a pencil from a dozen sitting, point up, in a gray pottery orange marmalade jar.
"Helene," he said.
"You'll take care of the money? Is that going to pose any problem?"
"We don't have that much," Capt. Dancy said.
"But I can have it by, say, nine in the morning."
"And the C-2?"
"I'm sure there's at least that much at Whifbey House," Colonel Stevens said.
"There should be," Helene Dancy agreed.
"But I'll check."
"That, then, brings us to the team," Fine said.
"First," Charity Hoche said.
"To the question of their documents. Canidy said Hungarian and/or Yugoslavian. If we can, I think we should give them both."
Fine's face was expressionless, but Colonel Stevens thought he saw in his eyes a hint of surprise, even annoyance.
"Helene?" Fine asked.
"Documents Section can handle that," Capt. Dancy said.