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Agent Z staggered into the office and collapsed in a chair.
All other alphabets were instantly on the alert. "What's the matter, Z? Did he send you to Alaska?"
Z shook his head numbly. "No," he said after a dazed moment. "It's just I had no idea the Major was ." He couldn't finish.
"I knew it!" Agent G exclaimed, triumphant. "Lord Gloria finally got him, did he?"
"I win the office pool!" B said.
"No, no! That's not it at all!" Z swallowed before forcing himself to speak. "Didn't you ever wonder why the Major wears his hair so long?"
A nervous silence answered him.
"It's to cover the points of his ears," Z whispered.