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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:35 am
    @@@@@Just before he fired he could see it all,
    @@@@@Just before he fired he could see it all, the sharp detumescent roar of the gun, the long soaring plunge of the shell through the night sky, its downward whistle, and the moments of complete and primordial terror for the Japanese at the other end when it landedAn odd ecstasy stirred his limbs for a moment, was gone before he was quite aware of it
    The General pulled the lanyard
    The muzzle blast deafened him momentarily, left him shaken and numb by its unaccustomed forceHe felt rather than saw the great twenty-foot flambeau of flame that discharged from the muzzle, heard dumbly the long billowing murmurs of the discharge through the dark closeted aisles of the jungleThe balloon tires, the trails were still vibrating gently from the recoil
    It had all taken a fraction of a secondEven the backward blast of wind had passed him, roiled his hair and closed his eyes before he was conscious of itThe General was recovering his sense-impressions by degrees, clutching at them in the wake of the explosion like a man chasing his hat in a galeHe took a breath, smiled, heard himself say in an even voice, "I wouldn't like to be at the other end He noticed the cannoneers, the Captain, after he spokeHe had said it because a part of his mind always considered the objective situation; consciously he had been unaware of the men about him as he talkedHe strode away slowly, drawing the Captain with him
    "Artillery is a bit more impressive at night," he murmuredHis poise was addled slightlyHe would not have said this to a stranger if he were still not absorbed in the impact of firing the howitzer
    "I know what you mean, sirI always get a kick out of firing the battery at night
    Then it was all rightCummings realized he had almost made a slip"Your battery seems in good order, Captain
    But he was not listeningThe General was paying attention to the silent rhapsodic swoop of the shell, was following it in his mind's eyeHow long did it take? Perhaps half a minute? His ears were alerted for the sound of its explosion
    "I never quite get over it,
    2:19 am
    @@@@@He recalled a soldier in his training
    @@@@@He recalled a soldier in his training platoon, a thin nervous man who had begun to weep on the rifle range when he fired his gunThe soldier had been taken to the hospital, and he heard weeks later that he had been dischargedOh, man, Minetta said to himselfHe felt happy for a moment as if he were actually out of the serviceI'm as smart as any of these guys, I can work itNervous shock, that's the story, nervous shockI got wounded, didn't I? You'd think the Army would discharge a guy after he got wounded, but all they do is patch him up and send him backCannon fodder, that's all they care about usMinetta felt righteous
    His mood ebbed, and he became frightened againI wish I could talk to Polack, he'd know how to work itMinetta looked at his handsI'm as good a man as PolackI can be out while he's still talking about itThey'll only keep me here a couple of days, and then they'll send me to another hospital where they keep the looniesIf I get there, I'll be able to copy themAbruptly, he was depressed againThat doc is watching me, I'm gonna have a tough time of itMinetta hobbled over to a table in the center of the tent, and picked up a magazineIf I get out, he told himself, I could write Polack a letter and say, "Who's crazy now?" Minetta began to giggle as he thought of Polack's face when he read thatIt's just a question of guts, he said to himself
    He lay down and remained without moving for half an hour, holding the magazine over his faceThe sun had heated the tent until it felt like a steam room, and Minetta was weak and miserableA tension increased inside him, and suddenly, without allowing himself to think, he stood up and shrieked, "Fug yez all
    "Take it easy," a soldier said from a nearby
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:34 am
    @@@@@"To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in
    @@@@@"To anyone with a drop of Irish blood
    in them the land they live on is like their motherIt's the only
    thing that lasts, that's worth working for, worth fighting for She
    burst through the door with Gerald O'Hara's voice in her ear, and
    ahead
    of her she saw the compact stock body and silver head of Colum
    O'Hara,
    so like her father'sIt seemed right that he should be the one,
    certain that he'd feel what she feltColum was standing in the
    doorway, looking into the dining roomWhen the outside door crashed
    open and Scarlett stumbled into the kitchen, he turnedHe was
    dressed
    in a dark suitScarlett looked at him through the daze of her pain
    She stared at the unexpected white line across his throat that was
    his woman collarA priest! No one had told her Colum was a priestYou could tell a priest anything, even the deepest secrets
    of your heart"Help me, Father," she cried"I need someone to help
    me there you have it," Colum concluded"Now, what can be done
    to
    remedy it? That's what we must find He sat at the head of the long
    table in Jamie's dining roomAll the adults from the three O 'Hara
    houses were in chairs around the tableMary Kate and Helen's voices
    could be heard through the closed door to the kitchen, where they
    were
    feeding the childrenScarlett was seated at Colum's side, her face
    swollen and blotched from earlier storms of weeping"You mean to
    say,
    Colum, that the farm doesn't go intact to the eldest child in
    America?"
    Matt asked"So it would seem, Matthew
    "Well, then, Uncle Gerald was foolish not to leave a will and
    testament
    Scarlett roused herself to glare at himBefore she could speak, Colum
    intervened"The poor man wasn't granted his old age, he had no time
    to
    think about his death and after, God rest hissoul
    2:19 am
    @@@@@There were no guns in the house; she knew
    @@@@@There were no guns
    in the house; she knew because she'd looked for one herselfShe
    closed her eyes and drifted near sleepIt had been a long dayShe
    remembered the excitement of the water foaming alongside the
    swift-moving sloop, and for a moment she envied Rhett sailing under
    the
    starsIf only she could have been with him instead of Ross
    She wasn't worried that the Yankees would catch him; she never
    worried
    about RhettWhen Eleanor Butler returned to the
    library after seeing the Union soldiers out, she tucked her cashmere
    shawl around Scarlett, who had fallen into a deep sleep
    "No need to disturb her," she said quietly, "she'll be comfortable
    hereLet's go to bed, RosemaryYou've had a long trip, and I'm
    tired, and tomorrow's bound to be very active She smiled to herself
    when she saw the bookmark placed well along in the pages of
    Ivanhoe
    Rosemary was a fast readerAnd not nearly as modern as she liked to
    think she wasThe Market was abuzz with indignation and illconceived
    plans the next morningScarlett listened to the agitated
    conversations around her with scornWhat did they expect, the
    Charlestonians? That the Yankees would let people go around
    shooting
    them and do nothing? All they were going to do was make things
    worse
    if they tried to argue or protestWhat difference did it make after
    all this time that General Lee had talked Grant into allowing
    Confederate officers to keep their sidearms after the surrender at
    Appomattox? It was still the end of the South, and what good did a
    revolver do you if you were too poor to buy bullets for it? As for
    duelling pistols! Who on earth would care about saving them? They
    weren't good for anything except men showing off how brave they
    were
    and getting their fool heads blown offShe kept her mouth shut and
    concentrated on the shoppingOtherwise it would never get done
    Even
    Miss Eleanor was running around like a chicken with its head cut off,
    talking to everybody in a barely audible, urgent tone"They say the
    men all want to finish what Ross started," she told Scarlett when they
    were walking home"It's more than they can bear to have their
    homes
    ransacked by the troopsWe women are going to have to manage
    things;
    the men are too hot under the collar Scarlett felt a chill of
    terrorShe'd thought it was all ta
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:35 am
    @@@@@ She was attractive for an older woman, as
    @@@@@
    She was attractive for an older woman, as humans wentShe'd let her hair stay a natural gray–it
    was soft, tending toward white rather than silver, and she wore it long, pulled back in a loose
    ponytailHer eyes were an interesting green color I'd never seen on anyone else
    “I'm sorry,” I said, since she seemed to be waiting for a responseIt's difficult for you to come hereYou wish so much that it
    wasn't necessaryIt's never been necessary for you before
    I stared down at the wooden floor
    “I know I've asked you to call me Kathy
    She laughed lightly“You are not at ease with human names yet, are you, Wanderer?”
    “NoTo be honest, it seems… like a surrender
    I looked up to see her nod slowly“Well, I can understand why you, especially, would feel that
    way
    I swallowed loudly when she said that, and stared again at the floor
    “Let's talk about something easier for a moment,” Kathy suggested“Do you continue to enjoy
    your Calling?”
    “I do“I've begun a new semesterI wondered if it would get tiresome,
    repeating the same material, but so far it doesn'tHaving new ears makes the stories new again
    “I hear good things about you from CurtHe says your class is among the most requested at the
    university
    My cheeks warmed a bit at this praise“That's nice to hearHow is your partner?”
    “Curt is wonderful, thank
    2:19 am
    @@@@@It stopped in front of a wood-framed,
    @@@@@It stopped in front of a wood-framed, three-story house, where an old priest got out
    and walked to the doorHe selected a name on the mail plate and pressed the button that rang a bell
    on the second floor
    “Oui?” said the metallic voice on the primitive intercom
    “I am a messenger from the American embassy,” answered the visitor in religious garb, his
    French partially ungrammatical as was all too frequent with Americans“I can’t leave my vehicle,
    but we have an urgent message for you
    “I’ll be right down,” said the French Algerian driver recruited by Charles Casset in Washington
    Three minutes later the man emerged from the building and walked out on the short narrow
    pavement“What are you dressed like that for?” he asked the messenger who stood by the large
    automobile, covering the insignia on the rear door
    “I’m the Catholic chaplain, my sonOur military chargé d’affaires would like a word with you
    “I’ll do many things for you people,” laughed the driver as he bent down to look inside the
    limousine, “but being drafted into your army isn’t one of themYes, sir, what can I do for you?”
    “Where did you take our people?” asked the shadowed figure in the backseat, his features in
    darkness
    “What people?” said the Algerian, sudden concern in his voice
    “The two you picked up at the airport several hours agoThe cripple and his friend
    “If you’re from the embassy and they want you to know, they’ll call and tell you, won’t they?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    317
    “You’ll tell me!” A third, powerfully built man in a chauffeur’s uniform appeared from behind
    the trunk of the carHe walked rapidly forward, raising his arm and crashing a thick ugly blackjack
    down on the Algerian’s skullHe shoved his victim inside; the old man in the guise of a chaplain
    climbed in behind him, pulling the door shut as the chauffeur ran around the hood to the front seat
    The limousine raced away down the street
    An hour later on the deserted rue Houdon, a block from Place Pigalle, the Algerian’s bruised and
    bleeding corpse was disgorged from the large automobileInside, the figure in shadows addressed
    his aged, personally ordained priest
    “Get your car and remain outside the cripple’s hotelStay awake, for you’ll be relieved in the
    morning and can rest all dayReport any movements and go where he goes
    “Never, monseign
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:34 am
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    Perse hadn't been in it
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    For the next four hours, I slipped in and out of
    Libbit's worldIt was a wonderful, frightening
    place to beSometimes I scribbled words - The
    gift is always hungry, start with what you know -
    but mostly it was picturesPictures were the real
    language we shared
    I understood her family's quick arc from amazement
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    because the girl was so prolific, gucci backpack maybe more
    because she was part of them, she was their little
    Libbit, and there's always that feeling that no
    good can come out of Nazareth, isn't there? But
    their boredom only made her hunger strongerShe
    looked for new ways to wow them, sought new ways
    of seeing
    And found them, God help her
    I drew birds flying upside-down, and animals
    walking on the swimming pool
    I drew a horse with a smile so big it ran off the
    sides of kelly hermes bag its faceI thought it was right around
    then that Perse had entered the pictureOnly -
    "Only Libbit didn't know it was Perse," I said
    "She thought-"
    825
    I thumbed back through her drawings, almost to the
    beginningTo the round black face with the
    smiling mouthAt first glance I had dismissed
    this one as Elizabeth's portrait of Nan Melda, but
    I should have known better - it was a child's face,
    not a woman'sSuddenly my hand women rolex was
    printing NOVEEN beside it in strokes so hard that
    Elizabeth's old canary-yellow pencil snapped on
    the last stroke of the second NI threw it on the
    floor and grabbed another
    It was Noveen that Perse had spoken through first,
    so as not to frighten her little geniusWhat
    could be less threatening than a little black
    girl-dolly who smiled and wore a red kerchief
    around her head, just like the beloved Nan Melda?
    And was mulberry bag Elizabeth shocked or frightened when the
    doll began to speak on its own? I didn't think so
    She might have been fiercely talented in that one
    narrow way, but she was still only a child of
    three
    Noveen told her things to draw, and Elizabeth -
    I grabbed my sketch-pad againDrew a cake lying
    on the floorSplattered on the floorLittle
    Libbit thought that prank was Noveen's idea, but
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    2:19 am
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    I couldn't even lie still for longI managed
    423
    twenty minutes, then leaped up and put on a
    mariachi recordIt was five-thirty in the morning
    I spent thirty minutes on the exercise bike -
    first time I'd been on it since Julia and Ez died
    - showered, and went in to work
    "For the next three days I was a bird, I was a
    plane, I was Super LawyerMy gucci hobo horsebit colleagues
    progressed from being worried about me to being
    scared for me to being scared for themselves - the
    non sequiturs were getting worse, and so was my
    tendency to lapse into both pidgin Spanish and a
    kind of Pepé Le Pew French - but there can be no
    doubt that I moved a mountain of paper during
    those days, and very little of it ever came back
    on the louis vuitton prices firmThe partners in the corner
    offices and the lawyers in the trenches were
    united in the belief that I was having a nervous
    breakdown, and in a sense they were rightIt was
    an organic nervous breakdownSeveral people tried
    to get me to go home, with no successDion
    Knightly, one of my good friends there, all but
    begged me to let him take me to see a fendi b doctorKnow
    what I told him?"
    I shook my head
    424
    "'Corn in the field, deal soon sealed' I remember
    it perfectly! Then I walked awayExcept I was
    almost skippingWalking was too slow for Wireman
    I pulled two all-nightersThe third night, the
    security guard escorted me, protesting, from the
    premisesI informed him that a rigid penis has a
    million capillaries chanel white j12 watch but not one scrupleI also
    told him he was a dandy in aspic, and that his
    father hated him Wireman brooded down at his
    folder briefly"The thing about his father got to
    him, I thinkActually I know it did He tapped
    his scarred temple
    "The next day I was called in to see Jack Fineham,
    the grand high rajah of our kingdomI was ordered
    to take a leave of omega watches prices absenc
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:34 am
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    The net result: I still have the old way I used to think, and I have Peter's way of looking at the same problem or situationI have two thoughts instead of one One more way to analyze a problem or trend, and that is pricelessToday, I often say, "How would Peter Lynch do this, or Donald Trump or Warren Buffett or George Soros?" The only way I can access their vast mental power is to be humble enough to read or chanel white watch listen to what they have to sayArrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risksYou see, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned
    If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problemsArrogant people rarely read or buy tapesWhy should they? They are the center of the gucci women watches universe
    There are so many "intelligent" people who argue or defend when a new idea clashes with the way they thinkIn this case, their so-called "intelligence" combined with "arrogance" equals "ignorance"Each of us knows people who are highly educated, or believe they are smart, but their balance sheet paints a different pictureA truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other chloe black accumulated ideasListening is more important than talkingIf that was not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouthToo many people think with their mouth instead of listening to absorb new ideas and possibilitiesThey argue instead of asking questions
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    2:19 am
    @@@@@Are you trying to make me feel
    @@@@@Are you trying to make me feel worse?”
    Everyone was furious with KyleJared's lips were welded into a tight line of rage, and Jeb
    stroked his gun more than usual
    Jeb had been excited, planning to join us on this landmark raid, his first since I'd come to live
    hereHe was particularly keen to see the shuttle field up closeBut now, with Kyle putting us
    all in danger, he felt he had to stay behind just in caseNot getting his way put Jeb in a foul
    mood
    “Stuck behind with that creature,” he muttered to himself, rubbing the rifle barrel again–he
    wasn't getting any happier about the new member of his community“Missin' all the fun He
    spit on the floor
    We all knew where Kyle wasAs soon as he'd grasped how the Seeker-worm had magically
    transformed into the Lacey-human in the night, he'd slipped out the backI'd been expecting
    him to lead the party demanding the Seeker's death (I kept the cryotank always cradled in my
    arms; I slept lightly, my hand touching its smooth surface), but he was nowhere to be found, and
    Jeb had quashed the resistance easily in his absence
    Jared was the one to realize the jeep was goneAnd Ian had been the one to link the two
    absences
    “He's gone after Jodi,” Ian had groaned“What else?”
    Hope and despairI had given them one, Kyle the otherWould he betray them all before they
    could even make use of the hope?
    Jared and Jeb wanted to put off the raid until we knew if Kyle was successful–it would take
    him three days under the best circumstances,if his Jodi still lived in OregonIf he could find her
    there
    There was another place, another cave we could evacuate toA much smaller place, with no
    water, so we couldn't hide there longThey'd debated whether they should move everyone now
    or wait
    But I was in a hurryI'd seen the way the others eyed the silver tank in my armsI'd heard the
    whisper
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:34 am
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    In the classroom everybody is shouting
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    The little girls are snuffling their noses, looking about with interest now and indignationCasimir did it, they whisper, Casimir did it
    Miss Marsden hears them at lastDid prada tote bag you do it, Casimir?
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    He walks up to her desk, leans against her arm when she puts it about himLooking at the class and winking as he lays his head on her shoulder
    Now, Casimir, don't do hermes kelly bag that
    2:19 am
    @@@@@ He'd be damned if Dalleson would lecture
    @@@@@
    He'd be damned if Dalleson would lecture him like a child"I'll do my best, Major," he murmured sarcastically
    Dalleson ran his thick index finger under the notation"What time is this report for?" he asked abruptly
    "Then whyinhell can't you put it down like that? Goddammit, man, you've got it for 2330 to 0030Can't you even read? Don't you know what the hell time it is?"
    He had even copied the time on the preceding report"Sorry," Hearn muttered, furious with himself for the error
    "What else you gonna do with this report?"
    "Damn if I knowThis isn't the work I've been doing
    "Well, now, I'll tell you," Dalleson said with relish"If you'll get the cobwebs off your brain you'll know that this is a Combat Report, so after you mark it in the Journal and on the map, you put it in the file for my Periodic Report, and when I'm done with it, which'll be tomorrow, you empty the file of the previous day, and put it in the Historical File, and you have one of the clerks make a copy and put it in the Journal FileNothing too hard about that for a man with a college education, is there, Hearn?"
    Hearn shrugged"Since the report doesn't say anything, why go to all that bother?" He grinned, enjoying the opportunity to lash back"It doesn't make much sense to me
    Dalleson was enragedHe glowered at Hearn, his jowls darkening, his mouth pressed thin by the powerful clamps of his jawsA first trickle of sweat slid past his eye and outlined his cheek"It doesn't make sense to you, eh," he repeated, "it doesn't make sense to you Like a shot-put hurler hopping on one foot to increase his momentum, Dalleson turned to Stacey and said, "It doesn't make sense to Lieutenant Hearn Stacey tittered uncomfortably, while Dalleson balanced on an infuriated sarcasm"Well, now, I'll tell you, Lieutenant, maybe there's a lot of things that don't make sense, maybe it don't make sense for me to be a soldier," he sneered, "maybe it ain't natural for you to be an officer, maybe it don't make sense," he said, repeating the original phrase"Maybe I'd rather be anything else than a soldier, maybe, Lieutenant, I'd rather be a Dalleson searched for a sufficiently damning word, and then clenching his fist powerfully he shouted, "Maybe it would be more natural for me to be a poet
    Hearn had been growing increasingly pale as the tirade continuedHe was incapable of speech for a moment in his an
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:35 am
    @@@@@What matter that it was half-fallen-downIt
    @@@@@What matter that it was
    half-fallen-downIt was really, truly a castle, just like pictures in
    a child's bookShe could hardly wait to discover what this Ireland
    was likeWhen Colum escorted her down the gangplank she realized
    that
    she had entered a completely different worldThe docks were busy,
    like the docks in Savannah, noisy, crowded, perilous with hurrying
    wagons and laden men loading or unloading barrels and crates and
    bales
    But the men were all white, and they shouted to one another in a
    tongue
    that had no meaning for her
    cracked the eggs and added themColum
    averted
    his eyesScarlett ate hungrily and efficiently, talking rapidly
    between mouthfulsShe told him her plan for the whole family, to
    have
    all the 0 'Haras living in moderate luxury at BallyharaColum waited
    until she finished eating before he said, "They won't do itThey've
    been farming the land they're on for nearly two hundred years
    "of course they willEverybody always wants better than they've got,
    Colum He shook his head in reply
    "I'll prove you wrongI'll ask them right now! No, that's not in my
    planI want to have everything ready first
    "Scarlett, I brought you your farmers
    "Those lazybones!"
    "You didn't tell me what you were planningTheir
    wives and children are on their way here right now to move into the
    cottages at the end of the streetThey've quit the landlords they had
    before Scarlett bit her lip"That's all right," she said after a
    minute"I'm putting the family in houses, anyhow, not cott
    2:19 am
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    hard
    Are those Crackers outside again? Or Clinch Dawkins? A cock crowed,
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    sky behind themIt looked as if they were still
    smolderingRhett was watching the death throes of hishome"Don't
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    heart
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    was
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    have
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    But he sounded different nowThere was a glimmer of wryness,
    almost
    humor, beneath his wordsThe red light outside was changing,
    becoming
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    with
    the sun-touched sheen of dew on them
    Rhett'sswivel chair swung aroundHe rubbed his hand over hischin,
    and
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    and
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    "I believe it's safe to sleep a little nowYou and Rosemary stay in
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    ocean gave a briny edge to the honey sweet fragrance of the flowers in the bushesThe breeze
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    She hesitated, then squared her shouldersI've only lived on EarthShe was as much a child as Robert“Only one planet? And you chose to be
    a Seeker in your first life?”
    She nodded once, her chin wallet chanel setWell, that's your business I started walking againMaybe if I respected her privacy, she
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    “I spoke to your Comforter
    And maybe not,Melanie thought sourly
    “I gather you've been having more trouble than just accessing the information I needHave you
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    The Seeker's face was smug“She didn't have to answerI'm very good at reading human
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    “Wait a minute,” interrupted Conklin“How do we get in? What do we say?”
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    “The what?” broke in Jason
    “The Service of External Documentation and Counterespionage,” answered Alex“It’s the
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    “What about the Deuxième?”
    “Special Branch,” said Conklin offhandedly, his mind elsewhere“Some say it’s an elite corps,
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    “They already have, sirAfter showing the concierge and his assistant my identification, I gave
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    “Sometimes simplicity backed by authority is best in deception,” observed Krupkin as the
    Citro?n was maneuvered between the sparse, erratic traffic across the wide avenue to the entrance
    of the white-stone apartment complex“Take the car around the corner out of sight, Sergei,”
    ordered the KGB officer, reaching for the door handle“And my radio, if you please?”
    “Yes, sir,” replied the aide, handing Krupkin a miniaturized electronic intercom over the seat
    “I’ll signal you when I’m in position
    “I can reach all of you with this?”
    “Yes, comradeBeyond a hundred and fifty meters the frequency is undetectable
    “Come along, gentlemen
    Inside the marble lobby, Krupkin nodded at the formally dressed concierge behind the counter,
    Jason and Alex on the Soviet’s right“La porte est ouverte,” said the concierge, his gaze
    downward, avoiding direct eye contact“I shall not be in evidence when madame arrives,” he
    continued in French“How you got in is unknown to me; however, there is a service entrance at the
    rear of the building
    “But for official courtesy it is the one we would have used,” said Krupkin, looking straight
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    @@@@@And I don't know what country's flag that
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    861
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    don't know much of anything for surebut I
    think that Perse has a ship of her own, and once
    she was free of the water and completely welded to
    Elizabeth Eastlake's powerful child's mind, she
    was able to call it
    "A ship of the dead," Wireman saidHis face was
    childlike with fear and wonderOutside, a wind
    shook the massed foliage in the courtyard; the
    rhododendrons nodded their heads and we could hear
    the steady, sleepy sound of the waves pounding the
    shoreI had loved that sound ever since coming to
    Duma Key, and I still loved it, but now it
    frightened me, toowhat?
    Persephone?"
    "If you like," I said"It's certainly crossed my
    mind that Perse was Elizabeth's way of trying to
    say thatIt doesn't matter; we're not talking
    Greek mythology hereWe're talking about
    something far older and more monstrousThat much it does have in common with
    vampiresOnly hungry for souls, not bloodAt
    least that's what I thinkElizabeth had her new
    'doll' for no more than a month, and God knows
    862
    what life was like at the first Heron's Roost
    during that time, but it couldn't have been good
    "Did Eastlake have the silver harpoons made then?"
    Wireman askedThere's so much I don't know,
    because what I do know comes from Elizabeth, and
    she was little more than an infantI have no
    sense of what happened in her other life, because
    by then she'd quit drawingAnd if she remembered
    the time when she did-"
    "She was doing her best to forget it," Jack
    finished"By the end, she was well on
    her way to forgetting everything
    I said, "Remember the pictures where everybody
    seems to be wearing these big, loopy drug-addict
    grins? That was Elizabeth, trying to remake the
    world she rememberedIn the days before her twin sisters
    drowned, she was one scared kid, but she was
    afraid to say anything, because she felt that the
    things going wrong were all her fault
    "What things?" It was Jack
    863
    "I don't know exactly, but there's one picture of
    an old-timey Negro lawn jockey standing on his
    head, and I think that stands for everythingI
    think that for Elizabeth, in those last days,
    everything seemed to be standing on its h
    2:19 am
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    skin was so tight on his cheekbones that it shone
    His hair hung over his ears in clumps, badly
    needing a wash
    "If I die - and I could, I could go out in a wink
    just like Senor Brown - you'll have to take over
    here until the estate can find a new live-inIt
    won't be much of a hardship, you can paint right
    out hereThe light's great, isn't it? The light's
    terrific!"
    He was starting to scare me"Wireman-"
    461
    He whirled replica rolex submariner around and now his eyes were blazing,
    the left one seemingly through a net of blood
    "Promise, Edgar! We need a plan! If we don't have
    one, they'll cart her away and put her in a home
    and she'll be dead in a month! In a week! I know
    it! So promise!"
    I thought he might be rightAnd I thought that if
    I wasn't able to take some of the pressure off his
    boiler, he was apt to have another seizure right
    in front of meThen I said, "You
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    iii
    He once more offered me the Palacio golf cart for
    the return trip to Big PinkI told him I'd be
    fine walking, but I wouldn't mind having a glass
    of juice before setting out
    Now I enjoy fresh-squeezed Florida oj as much as
    anyone, but I confess to having an ulterior motive
    that particular morningHe left me in the little
    462
    receiving room at the beach end of El Palacio's
    glassed-in center hallHe used this room as ladies gucci watch an
    office, although how a man who couldn't read for
    more than five minutes at a stretch could deal
    with correspondence was beyond meI guessed - and
    this touched me - that Elizabeth might have helped
    him, and quite a lot, before her own condition
    began to worsen
    Coming in for breakfast, I had glanced into this
    room and spied a certain gray folder lying on the
    closed lid of a laptop for which Wireman probably
    had little use these daysI flipped it open now
    and took one of the prada tote bag three X-rays
    "Big glass or little glass?" Wireman called from
    the kitchen, startling me so badly that I almost
    dropped the sheet in my hand
    "Medium's fine!" I called backI tucked the X-ray
    film into my collection pouch and flipped the
    folder closed againFive minutes later I was
    trudging back up the beach
    iv
    463
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    keeping silent about what I was sure I'd done to
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    what possible comfort could I have in taking such a charge
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