div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Bond wasted no time getting reacquainted with his Bentley following his midnight conversation with Tanner. While the police were left to follow up an investigation into Victoria Touchstones disappearance and the savage beating of former Detective Inspector George Howard, he was driving back through the night, making an early arrival at the Service's Regent's Park offices./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" The Chief of Staff had taken it upon himself to come in and debrief Bond, whose superficial injuries were dealt with by the duty nurse./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" M was an early riser, and was due to arrive in plenty of time for his first meeting at eight o'clock, by which time Bond was washed, shaved, patched up and had changed into the spare set of clothes kept in his own office, where he kept himself alert with a fix of Benzedrine, coffee and typing up his incident report./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Missing persons aren't usually our thing," Tanner had said, "But your Lord Vyvyan turned out to be a 'subject of interest'. I've given up half of my briefing slot so the old man can see you as soon as possible."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Any chance I can read the file?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "All in good time. You just concentrate on your report and give us a chance to check it out ourselves."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" As always, Bond was feeling excited at the prospect of a new mission, albeit one of his own making. Setting aside a carbon copy of his report, Bond was ready for the Chief of Staff's call. Taking the lift up to the top floor he was soon marching along the familiar carpeted corridor that led him to M's sanctum./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Entering the office adjacent to M's, Bond found the delightful Moneypenny and the Chief of Staff waiting on his arrival./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "007 has arrived, Sir," said Moneypenny into the intercom./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Good, send them in," M replied as the light high on the wall beside his double doorway switched from red to green. "Ushering them inside, Miss Moneypenny gave Bind her usual smile of encouragement as they stepped inside./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Morning, 007." M was still browsing a file under the light of the green glass and brass bank lamp that illuminated his desk. The morning sunshine would have made its use unnecessary, but the inner blinds had not yet been opened. "I hear you've been in a spot of bother?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Nothing I couldn't handle, Sir," said Bond, slipping his three page report onto the read leather inlay of M's desk, along with the photograph that George Howard had shown him the previous morning./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He's a good man, George." M paused to fill his pipe. "I'm told he's stable and should recover fully within a week or two."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" M gestured for Bond to join him if he wished. It was a rare offer, and one he appreciated. Pulling out his silver cigarette case, he extracted his fifth of the day. He was on the lower tar Duke of Durhams. He was meant to be keeping the numbers low, but after the evening's events it was something he needed. /div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Accepting a light from the old man, Bond drew deeply on the cigarette before getting down to business./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "That's good news. I just hope my actions were not too precipitous. Is there any news of the police sweep?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not good news, I'm afraid. All gone when they arrived, and by the time their hotel was tracked down the entire party had vanished."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "And the girl's parents?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Oliver Touchstone is quite the businessman. Runs a shipping company out of Bristol, and a member of the Mercantile Marine Reserve. There may be a link to his background..."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "I suspect the girl's chastity is the more likely factor," said Bond as M's stern grey eyes admonished him for the interruption./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes, well I've arranged for the Chief of Staff and I to have lunch with him to discuss the matter further. There's more to this little incident than a simple kidnapping."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "A two month operation involving an entire parade did seem a little over the top, sir."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Quite. And do you know why?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Haven't a clue, sir. Lord Vyvian by any chance?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes. It hasn't been confirmed, but he claims direct descent from the illegitimate line of the first Baron Vyvian of Glynn and Truro. Instead of contesting the title he merely changed his name from Fermain Clemister to that of his namesake, Hussey Vyvian, although he prefers to be known as Lord Vyvian or the Lord Lethesow."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "George said something about it being a prescriptive title."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes," Tanner agreed. "If he is descended from the first Baronet, then he's an Esquire, but without a proper challenge the title is meaningless."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "What about Lesothow? Can't say that I know it."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Cornish, 007. It translates as 'Lyonesse'."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "The mythical kingdom?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not so mythical any more. What's the most southwesterly point in England?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "On the mainland that would be the Penwith peninsula. At sea the Scilly Isles."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not any more." M slid a buff folder half way across the desk. Bond picked it up and examined the cover which, beside its classification, simply said 'LESOTHOW'. /div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Do you know what a Polder is 007?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "An enclosed tract of land reclaimed from the sea, usually enclosed by dikes or a sea wall. Mostly developed by the Dutch."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Lesothow is a polder built without government consent to the west of the Scilly isles. Vyvian has poured millions of pounds into making it, and until now the British government has turned a blind eye."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "I'm sorry sir," Bond opened the file and examined the photographs contained within, "you're saying he's built an artificial island in British waters? How did he afford that?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "An interesting lineage, our Lord Vyvian. According to his records he was born around 1920 to a Romanichal family who held a number of deeds to houses, lands and chattels bequeathed during the reign of King James II. This inheritance gave them lands in Cornwall and other parts of the country. It is ironic that he holds land but no title, while the Barons Vivian hold a title but little land."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "In 1945 he commissioned the construction of a Maunsell Fort similar to those placed in the Solent. This he had positioned and fixed at the site of the Little Sole sandbank around seventy five kilometres southwest of the Islands of Scilly. At the time this marked the edge of international waters. He then sank ten thousand concrete piles into the seabed and then deposited around a million cubic metres of sand, raising up an island which is now protected by sea walls."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "To what end?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He trained as an agronomist. The waters there are particularly warm and the climate significantly better than we have on the mainland. His plan would appear to be the creation of a successful rural community governed by its own laws. A micronation, as it were."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Why would we allow that?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "We haven't. The government used the polder's existence to extend British territorial waters beyond the new island. Vyvian was furious, of course, and responded by advertising for pioneering settlers to join him on Lesothow. He set some interesting criteria."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Bond, flicking through the file, came across the advert to which M referred. It was, indeed, interesting:/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" ADVERTISEMENT/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"The Island of Lesothow seeks to grow its population with new homes for families with old values./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Lesothow, a speck of land lost in the Atlantic to the west of the Scilly isles, is as far from the cares of modern life as one could hope to get. The warm climate and agreeable weather will appeal to those who favour the simple life in a self-contained community. The perfect location for the stressed-out metropolitan English family wanting to get away from it all and start again, free from the constraints of modern life./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" The island council plans to raise the population to 150 over the next ten years, and a building programme is already under way, with plots set aside for more than 15 houses. These will be the first on the island to be owned by residents./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Applicants must be of a spiritual nature, happy to live within an isolated community, interested in agriculture and not affiliated to any religious denomination./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""There have been some preliminary discussions about giving the polder protected status. Vyvian wants to go even further though, demanding to be appointed as the Lieutenant-Governor of a Crown Dependency."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He doesn't take half measures."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "We've had no cause to investigate his activities on the polder itself. The settlers remain registered as British citizens and they seem happy to pay their taxes. With a population of less than a hundred there's been no call for an official presence on the island."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" The Chief of Staff had taken it upon himself to come in and debrief Bond, whose superficial injuries were dealt with by the duty nurse./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" M was an early riser, and was due to arrive in plenty of time for his first meeting at eight o'clock, by which time Bond was washed, shaved, patched up and had changed into the spare set of clothes kept in his own office, where he kept himself alert with a fix of Benzedrine, coffee and typing up his incident report./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Missing persons aren't usually our thing," Tanner had said, "But your Lord Vyvyan turned out to be a 'subject of interest'. I've given up half of my briefing slot so the old man can see you as soon as possible."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Any chance I can read the file?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "All in good time. You just concentrate on your report and give us a chance to check it out ourselves."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" As always, Bond was feeling excited at the prospect of a new mission, albeit one of his own making. Setting aside a carbon copy of his report, Bond was ready for the Chief of Staff's call. Taking the lift up to the top floor he was soon marching along the familiar carpeted corridor that led him to M's sanctum./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Entering the office adjacent to M's, Bond found the delightful Moneypenny and the Chief of Staff waiting on his arrival./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "007 has arrived, Sir," said Moneypenny into the intercom./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Good, send them in," M replied as the light high on the wall beside his double doorway switched from red to green. "Ushering them inside, Miss Moneypenny gave Bind her usual smile of encouragement as they stepped inside./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Morning, 007." M was still browsing a file under the light of the green glass and brass bank lamp that illuminated his desk. The morning sunshine would have made its use unnecessary, but the inner blinds had not yet been opened. "I hear you've been in a spot of bother?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Nothing I couldn't handle, Sir," said Bond, slipping his three page report onto the read leather inlay of M's desk, along with the photograph that George Howard had shown him the previous morning./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He's a good man, George." M paused to fill his pipe. "I'm told he's stable and should recover fully within a week or two."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" M gestured for Bond to join him if he wished. It was a rare offer, and one he appreciated. Pulling out his silver cigarette case, he extracted his fifth of the day. He was on the lower tar Duke of Durhams. He was meant to be keeping the numbers low, but after the evening's events it was something he needed. /div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Accepting a light from the old man, Bond drew deeply on the cigarette before getting down to business./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "That's good news. I just hope my actions were not too precipitous. Is there any news of the police sweep?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not good news, I'm afraid. All gone when they arrived, and by the time their hotel was tracked down the entire party had vanished."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "And the girl's parents?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Oliver Touchstone is quite the businessman. Runs a shipping company out of Bristol, and a member of the Mercantile Marine Reserve. There may be a link to his background..."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "I suspect the girl's chastity is the more likely factor," said Bond as M's stern grey eyes admonished him for the interruption./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes, well I've arranged for the Chief of Staff and I to have lunch with him to discuss the matter further. There's more to this little incident than a simple kidnapping."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "A two month operation involving an entire parade did seem a little over the top, sir."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Quite. And do you know why?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Haven't a clue, sir. Lord Vyvian by any chance?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes. It hasn't been confirmed, but he claims direct descent from the illegitimate line of the first Baron Vyvian of Glynn and Truro. Instead of contesting the title he merely changed his name from Fermain Clemister to that of his namesake, Hussey Vyvian, although he prefers to be known as Lord Vyvian or the Lord Lethesow."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "George said something about it being a prescriptive title."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Yes," Tanner agreed. "If he is descended from the first Baronet, then he's an Esquire, but without a proper challenge the title is meaningless."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "What about Lesothow? Can't say that I know it."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Cornish, 007. It translates as 'Lyonesse'."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "The mythical kingdom?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not so mythical any more. What's the most southwesterly point in England?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "On the mainland that would be the Penwith peninsula. At sea the Scilly Isles."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Not any more." M slid a buff folder half way across the desk. Bond picked it up and examined the cover which, beside its classification, simply said 'LESOTHOW'. /div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Do you know what a Polder is 007?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "An enclosed tract of land reclaimed from the sea, usually enclosed by dikes or a sea wall. Mostly developed by the Dutch."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Lesothow is a polder built without government consent to the west of the Scilly isles. Vyvian has poured millions of pounds into making it, and until now the British government has turned a blind eye."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "I'm sorry sir," Bond opened the file and examined the photographs contained within, "you're saying he's built an artificial island in British waters? How did he afford that?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "An interesting lineage, our Lord Vyvian. According to his records he was born around 1920 to a Romanichal family who held a number of deeds to houses, lands and chattels bequeathed during the reign of King James II. This inheritance gave them lands in Cornwall and other parts of the country. It is ironic that he holds land but no title, while the Barons Vivian hold a title but little land."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "In 1945 he commissioned the construction of a Maunsell Fort similar to those placed in the Solent. This he had positioned and fixed at the site of the Little Sole sandbank around seventy five kilometres southwest of the Islands of Scilly. At the time this marked the edge of international waters. He then sank ten thousand concrete piles into the seabed and then deposited around a million cubic metres of sand, raising up an island which is now protected by sea walls."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "To what end?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He trained as an agronomist. The waters there are particularly warm and the climate significantly better than we have on the mainland. His plan would appear to be the creation of a successful rural community governed by its own laws. A micronation, as it were."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "Why would we allow that?"/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "We haven't. The government used the polder's existence to extend British territorial waters beyond the new island. Vyvian was furious, of course, and responded by advertising for pioneering settlers to join him on Lesothow. He set some interesting criteria."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Bond, flicking through the file, came across the advert to which M referred. It was, indeed, interesting:/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" ADVERTISEMENT/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"The Island of Lesothow seeks to grow its population with new homes for families with old values./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Lesothow, a speck of land lost in the Atlantic to the west of the Scilly isles, is as far from the cares of modern life as one could hope to get. The warm climate and agreeable weather will appeal to those who favour the simple life in a self-contained community. The perfect location for the stressed-out metropolitan English family wanting to get away from it all and start again, free from the constraints of modern life./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" The island council plans to raise the population to 150 over the next ten years, and a building programme is already under way, with plots set aside for more than 15 houses. These will be the first on the island to be owned by residents./div
div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" Applicants must be of a spiritual nature, happy to live within an isolated community, interested in agriculture and not affiliated to any religious denomination./div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;""There have been some preliminary discussions about giving the polder protected status. Vyvian wants to go even further though, demanding to be appointed as the Lieutenant-Governor of a Crown Dependency."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "He doesn't take half measures."/div
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div style="outline: transparent solid 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-touch-callout: none; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" "We've had no cause to investigate his activities on the polder itself. The settlers remain registered as British citizens and they seem happy to pay their taxes. With a population of less than a hundred there's been no call for an official presence on the island."/div
