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...come General MacArthur was not replaced by General Vaughan...
...VAUGHAN...
There had been White House Doctor Wallace Graham playing the cotton market (he didn't have the "slightest idea" cotton was a commodity, he explained); there were the Five Percenters; there was Personal Aide Harry Vaughan caught with his pudgy fingers deep in war-scarce stocks of molasses, grain and building materials -and now the RFC and mink coats...
There is no escaping his duty; Dr. Varga decides to operate. But he finds himself increasingly distracted by: 1) Pamela Vaughan, the good-looking nurse from the British hospital in Port Aarif, and 2) a whole array of El Bekkaa's subjects, who urge him to let his knife slip during the operation...
...Varga listens to the list of the governor's villainies, he can't help sympathizing with the malcontents, but then, there is his Hippocratic oath. What should he do? Moreover, what should he do about Nurse Vaughan? Nothing works out right for Dr. Varga. He loses both the girl and the patient, and his own brief career in Port Aarif comes to an abrupt end when the governor's bodyguards take after him with silver daggers...