ATD...had forgotten...narrator on the Chums later ...getting free.

[Mark Kohut]

had forgotten:
"Was it any wonder that when the opportunity did arise, as it would shortly, the boys would grasp unreflectively at a chance to transcend "the secular,"
even at the cost of betraying their organization, their country, even humankind itself?"----AtD, page 113
--after the bickering over the new figurehead for The Inconvenience...'contamination by the secular', sez Noseworthy

Anyone, anyone?