That Sudden Meeting

In the big, busy office building of the daily newspaper, The New Observer, in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, an energetic Christian journalist, Leo Eermans, sat behind his modern steel desk, and sighed with relief. He had again written his column about all that was going on in Europe, just in time for the printer. All he had to do before five o’clock was read some e-mail that had come in. Outside it seemed to be earlier, because the springtime sky was so clear and the sun so radiant. The...