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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:27 am
    @@@@@After toiling through the muck and water of
    @@@@@After toiling through the muck and water of the stream, after being convinced so many times they would never reach its end, they were proud and pleased to have managed it, and for the first time some of them were optimistic about the success of the patrol

    Roth and Minetta were wretched, howeverMinetta was in poor condition from his week in the hospital, and Roth had never been very strongThe long march up the river had fagged them brutally; overtired, the rest periods did them little good and laboring on the trail was tortureAfter thirty seconds, after three or four slashes with his machete, Roth was unable to raise his armThe machete felt heavy as an axHe lifted it with both hands, dropped it feebly on the branch or vine before himEvery half minute, the knife slipped out of his sweating nerveless fingers and went clattering to the ground
    Minetta's fingers had begun to blister and the handle of the machete rasped against his palm, rubbed sweat into all the sores on his handHe would attack a bush violently and clumsily, forcing himself into a rage at its stubbornness, and then he would halt, winded, cursing between his sobs at the dank pappy mesh of verdure before himHe and Roth worked side by side, cramped together in the narrow aisle of the trailIn their exhaustion they often blundered against each other, and Minetta would swear with irritationThey disliked each other as intensely as they hated the jungle, the patrol, and CroftMinetta brooded because Croft was not working; it became the crux of his bitterness"It's easy enough for that goddam Croft to tell us what to do, but he ain't doin' itI don't see him working his ass off," Minetta muttered"If I was a platoon sergeant, I wouldn't treat the guys like thatI'd be right with them, working
    Ridges and Goldstein were standing about five yards behind themThe four men made up one of the teams, and theoretically they were supposed to divide their five-minute shiftBut after an hour or two, Goldstein and Ridges were working for three minutes and then four minutesWatching Minetta and Roth hack with their machetes, Ridges was indignant"Shoot," he would reprove them, "ain't you city fellers ever learned to use a little ol' knife like that?"
    Breathless, enraged, they would make no answer, and this would annoy Ridges moreHe had a lively discernment of injustice toward other men and toward himself, and thought it was decidedly unfair for Goldstein and him to work more than the other pair"Ah done the same work you done," he would complain, "Ah went up the same river you did, an' they ain't no reason 'tall why Gol'stein and me gotta be doin' all yore work
    2:22 am
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    He stared at the jungle which slid thickly past on either side of the truck

    Red saw Minetta at midday chow when the platoon came in from working on chanel logo the roadAfter he filed through the chow line, he sat down beside Minetta, and laid his mess gear on the groundWith a grunt he eased his back against a tree"Just got back, huh?" he nodded to Minetta
    "Yeah, this morning
    "They kept you pretty long for just a scratch," Red Gucci Purse said Minetta was silent for a moment and then added, "Well, you know how it is, hard to get in, hard to get out He swallowed a mouthful of Vienna sausage"I had a pretty soft time there
    Red piddled the dehydrated mashed potatoes and canned string beans with his Chloe Purse spoonIt was the only eating utensil he owned; months ago he had thrown away his knife and fork"They treated you pretty good, huh?" He was annoyed with his own curiosity
    "Damn good," Minetta saidHe swallowed some coffee"Well, I had a run-in with a doctor there, the zucca fendi bag sonofabitch
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:27 am
    @@@@@And yet she was moving, in sickening
    @@@@@And
    yet
    she was moving, in sickening swings and surging lifts and terrible,
    terrible falling, fallingOh God, don't let me die! I
    want to live"Scarlett!" The sound of her name was louder than the
    clacking of her teeth and it penetrated to her consciousness
    "Scarlett!" She knew that voice, it was Rhett's voiceAnd that was
    Rhett's arm around her, holding herBut where was he? She couldn't
    see anything through the water that kept hitting her face, glazing and
    stinging her eyesShe opened her mouth to answer and at once it
    was
    filled with waterScarlett craned her head up as hard as she could
    and blew the water from her mouthIf only her teeth would be still!
    "Rhett," she tried to say His voice was very closeShe was
    beginning
    to make some kind of sense of things"Rhett," she said again"Now
    listen carefully, my darling, listen harder than you've ever listened
    in your lifeWe've got one chance, and we're going to take itThe
    sloop is right here; I'm holding on to the rudder
    We've got to get under it and use it for protectionThat means we've
    got to go under the water and come up under the hull of the boatDo
    you understand?" Everything in her cried out, No! If she went under
    the water she'd drownIt was pulling her already, dragging at her
    If she went under, she'd never come up! Panic seized herShe
    couldn't breatheShe wanted to hold on to Rhett, and she wanted to
    scream and scream and scream- Stop itAnd
    the
    voice was her ownYou've got to live through this, and you'll never
    do it if you act like a gibbering idiot
    "Wh-wh-what sh-should I d-d-d-do?" Damn this chatterin
    2:22 am
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    used louis vuitton,chanel pearl,gucci hobo horsebit,tiffanys jewelry,tiffany price@@@@@Oh, why did Rhett have to be so mean, telling her that
    his precious old plantation flowers were the only jewels she could
    wear?
    It was bad enough that her ball gown was so dowdyBut with nothing
    to
    dress up the plainness except a bunch of flowers-she might as well
    wear
    a flour sack with a hole cut for her headShe'd counted on her used louis vuitton pearls
    and her diamond earbobs"You don't have to brush a hole in my
    scalp,"
    she grumbled at Pansy Pansy continued to brush the long
    dark mass of hair with vigorous strokes, eradicating the curls that had
    taken so long to arrangeScarlett looked at her reflection with
    growing satisfactionYes, that was much betterHer neck was really
    too pretty chanel pearl to coverIt was much better to wear her hair up
    And her earbobs would show up betterShe was going to wear them,
    no
    matter what Rhett had told herShe had to be dazzling, she had to
    win
    the admiration of every man at the ball, and the hearts of at least a
    fewThat would make Rhett sit up and take noticeShe fastened the
    diamonds into her gucci hobo horsebit earlobesThere! She tilted her head from side to
    side, pleased with the effect"Do you like this, Miss Scarlett?"
    Pansy gestured toward her handiworkDo it fuller above the
    ears Thank goodness Rosemary had turned down her offer to lend
    Pansy
    this eveningThough why Rosemary hadn't jumped at the chance was
    a
    mystery; she needed all the help tiffany's jewelry she could get
    She'd probably bundle her hair into the same lumpy old-maid bun she
    always woreEntering the ballroom with Rhett's
    sister would only call attention to how much prettier she was
    "That's fine, Pansy," she said, good humor restoredHer hair shone
    like a raven's wingThe white flowers would actually be very
    becoming"Hand me some tiffany price hair
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:27 am
    @@@@@If Carlos was going to make his break, it
    @@@@@If Carlos was going to make his
    break, it would be then! After waiting for the standard radio backup, every moment of distance he
    put between himself and the armory would make it more difficult to pick up his trailAnd he, the
    efficient killing machine from Medusa, was in the wrong place! Further, the sight of a civilian
    running across a lawn or down a road carrying an automatic weapon within a military compound
    was to invite disasterIt was a small, stupid omission! Three or four additional words translated and
    a less arrogant, more probing listener would have avoided the errorIt was always the little things,
    the seemingly insignificant that crippled gray to black operationsGoddamn it!
    Five hundred feet away the KGB sedan suddenly thundered as it swerved into the dirt parking
    area raising clouds of dry dust while crushing and spitting out pieces of rock from its spinning tires
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    401
    There was no time to think, time only to actBourne held the AK-47 against his right leg,
    concealing it as much as possible as he rose to his feet, his left hand skimming the top of the low
    hedgerow—a gardener, perhaps, surveying an anticipated assignment, or an indolent stroller
    aimlessly touching the roadside shrubbery, nothing remotely threatening, just a sign of the
    commonplace; to the casual observer, he might have been walking down that road for several
    minutes without being noticed
    He glanced over at the armory’s entranceThe two soldiers were laughing quietly, the one
    without a cigarette again looking at his watchThen the object of their minor conspiracy came out
    of the left front door, an attractive dark-haired girl, barely in her twentiesShe humorously clapped
    both her hands over her ears, made a grotesque face and walked rapidly to the time-conscious man
    in uniform, kissing him on the lipsThe threesome linked arms, the woman in the center, and
    started to their right, away from the entrance
    A crash! Metal colliding with metal, glass shattering glass, the loud harsh sound coming from
    the distant parking areaSomething had happened to the Komitet car with Alex and Krupkin; the
    young driver from the assault squad had either smashed or skidded into another vehicle in the dry
    dirt of the lotUsing the sound as an excuse, Jason started down the road, the image of Conklin
    coming instantly to his mind, producing a limp in his own rapid strides the better to keep his
    weapon in minimum viewHe turned his head, expecting to see the two soldiers and the woman
    running down the armory path toward the accident, only to realize that the three of them were
    running the other way, removing themselves from any involvementObviously, precious breaks in
    a military schedule were jealously protected
    Bourne abandoned the limp, crashed through the hedgerow and raced to the concrete path that
    stretched to the corner of the huge building, gathering speed and breathing heavily with increasing
    frequencyJason’s weapon was now in plain sight, slashing the air as he gripped it in the hand of
    his swinging right armHe reached the end of the path, his chest heaving, the veins in his neck
    seemingly prepared to burst as the sweat ran down his skin, drenching his face, his collar and his
    shirtGasping, he steadied the AK-47, his back pressed against the wall of the building, then spun
    around the corner into the parking area, stunned by what he sawHis pounding feet, coupled with
    the anxiety that caused his hair-soaked temples to throb, had blocked out all sound up aheadWhat
    he observed now, what sickened him now, he knew had to be the result of multiple gunshots muted
    by a weapon equipped with a silencerDispassionately, Medusa’s Delta understood; he had been
    there many times many years beforeThere were circumstances under which kills had to be made
    quietly—utter silence was the unreachable goal, but at least minimal noise was crucia
    2:22 am
    @@@@@What about you? Any progress?” “I’ll be in
    @@@@@What about you? Any progress?”
    “I’ll be in touch,” said Bourne, hanging up and turning to Alex“It doesn’t make sense, and
    Carlos always makes sense if you look hard enoughHe leaves me a warning that drives me crazy
    with fear, but he has no means of carrying out his threatWhat do you make of it?”
    “The sense is in driving you crazy,” replied Conklin“The Jackal’s not going to take on an
    installation like Tannenbaum’s sterile house long-distanceThat message was meant to panic you
    and it didHe wants to throw you off so you’ll make mistakesHe wants the controls in his hands
    “It’s another reason for Marie to fly back to the States as soon as possibleI want
    her inside a fortress, not having lunch out in the open in Barbizon
    “I’m more sympathetic to that view than I was last night Alex was interrupted by the sound of
    the door openingKrupkin walked into the room carrying several computer printouts
    “The number you gave me is disconnected,” he said, a slight hesitancy in his voice
    “Who was it connected to?” asked Jason
    “You will not like this any more than I do, and I’d lie to you if I could invent a plausible
    alternate, but I cannot and I undoubtedly should notAs of five days ago it was transferred from
    an obviously false organization to the name of Webb
    Conklin and Bourne stared in silence at the Soviet intelligence officer, but in that silence were
    the unheard static cracks of high-voltage electricity“Why are you so certain we won’t like the
    information?” asked Alex quietly
    “My fine old enemy,” began Krupkin, his gentle voice no louder than Conklin’s
    Bourne came out of that café of horror with the brown paper clasped in his hand, he was hysterical
    In trying to calm him, to bring him under control, you called him DavidI now have a name I
    sincerely wish I did not possess
    “Forget it,” said Bourne
    “I shall do my best to, but there are ways—”
    “That’s not what I mean,” broke in J
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:27 am
    @@@@@ "Don't call me Edster, it sounds like a
    @@@@@
    "Don't call me Edster, it sounds like a vintage
    FordYou brought her soup, and she waswhat?
    Gone again?"
    "Pretty much, yeahShe'd broken a couple of her
    china figures on the floor - a horse and a rodeo
    girl
    "Did she say 'It's leaking' before or after you
    brought her the food?"
    "After, before, what does it matter?"
    "I don't know," I said"Which was it?"
    642
    "BeforeAfterward, she'd
    pretty much lost interest in everything, including
    chucking the Sweet Owen tin into the pond for the
    umpteenth timeI brought the soup in her favorite
    mug, but she pushed it away so hard she slopped
    some on her poor old armShe didn't even seem to
    feel itEdgar, why are you asking these questions?
    What do you know?" He was pacing around with the
    cell phone to his earI could see him doing itI'm feeling around in the dark, for
    Chrissake
    "Yeah? Which arm you doing it with?"
    That stopped me for a moment, but we had come too
    far and shared too much for lies, even when the
    truth was nuts
    "All right," he saidI wish I
    knew what was going on, that's allBecause
    something is
    "Maybe something isHow is she now?"
    "SleepingAnd I'm interrupting you
    "No," I said, and tossed the brush aside"I think
    this is done, and I think I'm also done for awhile
    643
    Just walking and shelling for me between now and
    the show
    "Noble aspirations, but I don't think you can do
    itNot a workaholic like you
    "I think you're wro
    2:22 am
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    "I'm all right, thanks But he looked tired; his
    left eye was still red and drippy"This won't
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    then turned her head awayHer face looked ancient
    and bewildered in the unforgiving winterlightI
    thought that we made quite a trio: the senile
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    and the amputee ex-contractorAll with battlescars
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    Brown's lawyer - now ex-lawyer, I guess - was
    calling for a full investigationElizabeth
    perhaps spoke for all of Sarasota County on this
    issue by closing her eyes, slumping down against
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    breastworks pushed up, and going to sleep
    Wireman came back in gucci watch bangle with eggs enough for both of
    us, and I ate with surprising gustoElizabeth
    began to snoreOne thing was certain; if she had
    sleep apnea, she wouldn't die young
    "Missed a spot on your ear, muchacho," Wireman
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    "What were you painting in the middle of the
    night?"
    "I don't want to talk about it right now
    He shrugged and nodded"You're getting that
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:27 am
    @@@@@Just look at your dadHe makes a lot of
    @@@@@Just look at your dadHe makes a lot of money, and he still can't pay his billsMost people, given more money, only get into more debt
    "So that's why the 10 cents an hour," I said, smiling"It's a part of the lesson
    "That's right," smiled rich dad"You see, your dad went to school and got an excellent education, so he could get a high-paying jobBut he still has money problems because he never learned anything about money at schoolOn top of that, he believes in working for money
    "And you don't?" I asked
    "No, not really," said rich dad"If you want to learn to work for money, then stay in schoolThat is a great place to learn to do thatBut if you want to learn how to have money work for you, then I will teach you thatBut only if you want to learn
    "Wouldn't everyone want to learn that" I asked"Simply because it's easier to learn to work for money, especially if fear is your primary emotion when the subject of money is discussed
    "I don't understand," I said with a frown
    "Don't worry about that for nowJust know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a jobThe fear of not paying their billsThe fear of being firedThe fear of not having enough moneyThe fear of
    starting overThat's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money
    2:22 am
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    “Who are you?” she replica prada demanded“Who's she? She's like… like I wasI saw her eyes!”
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    “I can't remember my name,” she told him in a panicked voice
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    I edged toward the exitTrudy would be a tank louis good person to help Doc, or maybe HeidiSomeone
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    2:27 am
    @@@@@ "IS THERE ANYBODY THE FUG MISSING?"
    @@@@@
    "IS THERE ANYBODY THE FUG MISSING?" Gallagher shouted
    "Everybody's here," someone yelled back
    The grove at the other end of the field was silentOnly an occasional shot chirruped over their heads
    "Let's get out of here
    Croft peered over the top of the shelf, searched the field for an instant and saw nothingHe ducked down as a few shots chased after him"Want to go, Lootenant?"
    Hearn was unable to concentrate for a momentHe was still caught in the ferment that had aroused himHe could not quite believe they were back to a temporary safety; all his energies were balkedHe wanted to drive them for another hundred yards and another, bawling out his commands, bellowing his rageIt was impossible for him to think"All right, let's go," he blurtedThere was an emotion in it somewhere, as sweet as anything he had ever known
    The platoon jogged away from the shelf, keeping close to the cliffs of Mount AnakaThey walked quickly, almost running, the men at the rear crowding up to the men ahead of themThere was a low hill they had to cross which put them in view of the grove for a few seconds, but it was several hundred yards awayThey drew only a few scattered shots as they darted quickly, one by one, over the summitFor twenty minutes they kept walking and running, going farther and farther to the east, parallel to the base of the mountainThey were more than a mile away, separated by many small hills from the entrance to the pass, before they haltedHearn, following Croft's example, selected a draw near the summit of a knoll, and posted four men at the approachesThe others flung themselves down, panting breathlessly
    They had been in the draw for ten minutes before they discovered Wilson was missing



    5

    WHEN THE PLATOON fell into the ambush, Wilson took cover behind a rock near the tall grassHe had lain there, exhausted, feeling nothing, content to let the skirmish pass above
    2:20 am
    @@@@@(She laughs first, and he joins in a little
    @@@@@(She laughs first, and he joins in a little hesitantly You're just our second cousin from the West(Her long face seems merry for a moment Seriously, it's just that we've known only Navy up till nowTom Hopkinson and Thatcher Lloyd, I think you met him at Dennis, well, they're all Navy, and Uncle Andrew knows their fathers so wellI think he had a crush on your mother
    Well, that makes it better(They laugh again, sit down on a bench and throw pebbles into the Charles River basin You're awfully vivacious, Margaret
    Oh, I'm a fraud tooIf you knew me you'd say I was awfully moody
    Oh, I wept, you know I completely wept when Minot and I lost our boat class race two years agoFather wanted us to win it, and I was terrified what he would sayYou can't move around here at all, nothing one can do, there's always a reason why it isn't advisable(For an instant her voice is almost bitter You're not like us at all, you're serious, you're important(Her voice lilts again Father told me you were second from the top in your class
    Would the middle third be respectable?
    Not for youYou're going to be a general
    I don't believe it(His voice in these weeks in Boston has assumed the proper tone, become a little higher, a little more lazyHe cannot express the excitement, perhaps the exaltation Boston gives himEveryone is so perfect here
    You're just doodling me, he s
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:27 am
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    simple directness from his dark complex natureAt the end of the
    song
    Polly threw her arms around Gerald's neck and hid her face in
    his shoulderMaureen lifted the bones above her shoulder"We'll
    have
    a reel now," she announced firmly
    "My toes are fairly twitching Daniel laughed and began to gucci tote play
    Scarlett had danced the Virginia reel a hundred times or more, but
    she'd never seen dancing like what happened next at Patricia's
    birthday
    partyMatt O 'Hara began itWith his shoulders straight and his arms
    stiff at his side he looked like a soldier when he stepped away from the
    circle of chairsThen his feet began to pound and flash and twist and
    move so quickly gucci men watch that they blurred in Scarlett's visionThe floor
    became a resounding drum under his heels, became like polished ice
    under his intricate impossible steps forward and backHe must be the
    best dancer in the whole world, Scarlett thoughtAnd then Katie
    danced out to face him, her skirts held up in her two hands so that her
    feet were free to match his stepsMary Kate fendi b was next, then Jamie
    joined his daughterAnd beautiful Helen with a cousin, a little boy
    who couldn't be older than eightI don't believe it, Scarlett
    thoughtThey're magic, all of themThe music's magic, tooHer
    feet moved, faster than they'd ever moved before, trying to mimic
    what
    she was seeing, trying to express the excitement of the musicI've
    got to learn to hermes purse dance like that, I've just got tolike
    you spin right up to the sunA sleeping child under the settee woke
    at the sounds of the dancing feet and began to cryLike a contagion,
    crying spread to the other smallest childrenThe dancing and the
    music stopped"Make some mattresses from folded blankets in the
    other
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    2:22 am
    @@@@@"Having a good time?" Rhett was
    @@@@@"Having a good time?"
    Rhett was smiling"Wonderful! Which horse is Miles Brewton's,
    Rhett?"
    "I suspect Miles rubbed his down with shoe-polishIt's number five,
    the very glossy blackThe dark horse, you might say
    Number six is Guggenheim's; Belmont managed post position; his
    pace-setter is number four Scarlett wanted to ask what "pacesetter"
    and "post position" meant, but there was no time, they were about to
    startNumber five's rider anticipated the starter's pistol shot, and
    there were loud groans from the stands
    "What happened?" Scarlett asked"False start, they'll have to line
    up again," Rhett explainedHe tilted his head in gestureSally Brewton's face was more monkey-like
    than ever, contorted with rage, and she was shaking her fist in the
    airRhett laughed affectionately"I might just jump the fence and
    keep going if I were the jockey," he said"Sally's ready to use his
    skin for a hearth rug
    "I don't blame her one bit," Scarlett declared, "and I don't think it's
    one bit funny either, Rhett Butler"May I dare
    assume that you put your money on Sweet Sally after all?"
    "Of course I didSally Brewton's a dear friend of mine-and besides,
    if I lost, it was your money, not mine Rhett looked at Scarlett in
    surpriseShe was smiling impishly at him"Well done, madam," he
    murmuredThe pistol shot sounded, and the race had begunScarlett
    didn't know that she was shouting, jumping up and down, pounding on
    Rhett's armShe was even deaf to the shouts of the people all around
    themWhen Sweet Sally won by a half-length she let out a yell of
    victory"We won! We won! Isn't it marvelous? We won!" Rhett
    rubbed
    hisbice
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    2:27 am
    @@@@@ It happened at precisely 12:02 Adirectly
    @@@@@
    It happened at precisely 12:02 Adirectly after the universal changing of the guard, during the
    darkest darkness of the nightThe telephone in the Commissars Suite screamed, propel ling
    Benjamin off the couchHe raced across the room to the jangling, insistent instrument and yanked
    it off its cradleGdye? Kogda? Shto eto znachit? Da!” He slammed the phone down and
    turned to Bourne at the dinner table, the maps of Novgorod having replaced the room-service
    dishesAt the Spanish tunnel—across the river two guards are dead, and on this
    side the officer of the watch was found fifty yards away from his post, a bullet in his throatThey
    ran the video tapes and all they saw was an unidentified man walking through carrying a duffel bag!
    In a guard’s uniform!”
    “There was something else, wasn’t there?” asked Delta coldly
    “Yes, and you may be rightOn the other side was a dead farmhand clutching torn papers in his
    handHe was lying between the two murdered guards, one of them stripped to his shorts and shoesHow did he do it?”
    “He was the good guy, I can’t think of anything else,” mused Bourne, rising quickly, and
    reaching, pouncing on the map of the Spanish compound“He must have sent in his paid impostor
    with the rotten mocked-up papers, then ran in himself, the wounded Komitet officer at the last
    moment exposing the fraud and speaking the foreign language which his impostor couldn’t do and
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    couldn’t understandProbe, test, agitate, confuse and find a way inStealing a
    uniform is standard, and in the confusion it got him through the tunnel
    “But anyone using those papers was to be watched, followedThey were your instructions and
    Krupkin sent the word up the line!”
    “The Kubinka,” said Jason, now pensive as he studied the map
    “The armory? The one mentioned in the news bulletins from Moscow?”
    “ExactlyJust as he had done at the Kubinka, Carlos has someone inside hereSomeone with
    enough authority to order an expendable officer of the guard to bring anyone penetrating the tunnel
    to him before sending out alarms and raising headquarters
    “That’s possible,” agreed the young trainer rapidly, firmly“Involving headquarters with false
    alarms can be embarrassing, and as you say, there must have been a lot of confusion
    “In Paris,” said Bourne, glancing up from the compound map, “I was told that embarrassment
    was the KGB’s worst enemyTrue?”
    “On a scale of one to ten, at least eight,” replied Benjamin“But who would he have in here,
    who could he have? He hasn’t been here in over thirty years!”
    “If we had a couple of hours and a few computers programmed with the records of everyone in
    Novgorod, we might be able to feed in several hundred names and come up with possibilities, but
    we don’t have hour
    2:22 am
    @@@@@Again, frankly, who gives a damn? My only
    @@@@@Again,
    frankly, who gives a damn? My only concern is the complete confidentiality of our organization—
    which you’ve seen fit to question
    “You still don’t see, do you?”
    “See what, for God’s sake?”
    “Bourne may not be the lowly scum you think he is, not when you consider his associates
    “Please be clearer,” said Ogilvie in a flat monotone
    “He’s using Medusa to hunt the Jackal
    “Impossible! That Medusa was destroyed years ago in Saigon!”
    “Obviously he thought otherwiseWould you care to remove your well-tailored jacket, roll up
    your sleeve, and display the small tattoo on your inner forearm?”
    “No relevance! A mark of honor in a war no one supported, but we had to fight!”
    “Oh, come, CounselorFrom the piers and the supply depots in Saigon? Stealing your forces
    blind and routing couriers to the banks in SwitzerlandMedals aren’t issued for those heroics
    “Pure speculation without foundation!” exclaimed Ogilvie
    “Tell that to Jason Bourne, a graduate of the original Snake LadyOh, yes, Counselor, he
    looked for you and he found you and he’s using you to go after the Jackal
    “For Christ’s sake, how?”
    “I honestly don’t know, but you’d better read these The consul general crossed rapidly to the
    hotel desk, picked up a sheaf of stapled typewritten pages, and brought them over to Bryce Ogilvie
    “These are decoded telephone conversations that took place four hours ago at our embassy in Paris
    The identities are established, the destinations as wellRead them carefully, Counselor, then render
    me your legal opinion
    The celebrated attorney, the Ice-Cold Ogilvie, grabbed the papers and with swift, practiced eyes
    began readingAs he flipped from one page to another, the blood drained from his face to the pallor
    of death“My God, they know it allMy offices are wired! How? Why? It’s insane! We’re
    impenetrable!”
    “Again, I suggest you tell that to Jason Bourne and his old friend and station chief from Saigon,
    Alexander Conklin
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    345
    “They couldn’t have!” roared Ogilvie“We paid off or eliminated everyone in Snake Lady who
    even suspected the extent of our activitiesJesus, there weren’t that many and goddamned few in
    the field! I told you, they were scum and we knew better—they were the thieves of the world and
    wanted for crimes all over Australia and the Far EastThe ones in combat we knew and we
    reached!”
    “You missed a couple, I believe,” observed Sulikov
    The lawyer returned to the typed pages, beads of sweat rolling down his temple
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    2:27 am
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