This chapter is:
our second last sight of Dominic Flandry;
our last sight of Flandry working as an Intelligence agent;
the only conversation/confrontation between Flandry and the Imperial pretender, Magnusson;
confirmation that Magnusson is working for the Merseians;
our only sight of the mysterious planet, Sphinx, whose incomprehensible inhabitants pay Imperial tribute but have no other extra-planetary interactions;
our only information about Gwanthyr, a Merseian secret agent whom Flandry had poisoned on a neutral planet;
a temporary defeat for Flandry because Magnusson has him arrested for attempting espionage under cover of a parley under truce;
a chapter of a novel that is part of a long future history series although we are not necessarily aware of that when reading.
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