| ?Try an uneducated grammar school dropout from the coal basins in West Virginia
when the companies shut down the mines and nobody had no food?excuse me, any foodYou take
what you got and you run with it and that?s what I didI got laid from Aliquippa to Hawaii, but I
got there and I learned a tradeThat?s where I met the Big Boy and I married him, but I didn?t have
no illusions from day one?Specially when he got back from ?Nam, y?know what I mean??
?I?m not sure I do, Rachel
?You don?t have to explain nothin? kiddo!? roared Flannagan
?No, I wanna, Eddie! I?m sick of the whole shit, okay??
?You watch your tongue!?
?The point is, I don?t know nothin?, MrBut I can figure things, y?know what I mean??
?Stop it, Rachel!? cried the dead general?s aide
?Fuck off, Eddie! You?re not too bright eitherDelta could be our way outBack to
the islands, rolex oyster perpetual date right??
?Absolutely right, Mrs
?You know what this place is???
?Shut up!? yelled Flannagan, awkwardly plodding forward, stopped by the sudden ear-shattering
explosion of Bourne?s gun, the bullet searing into the floor between the sergeant?s legsWhen she stopped, Jason continued: ?What is this place, MrsSwayne??
?Hold it,? the master sergeant again interrupted, but his objection was not shouted now; instead,
it was a plea, a strong man?s pleaHe looked at the general?s wife and then back at Jason?Listen,
Bourne or Delta or whoever you are, Rachel?s rightYou could be our way out?there?s nothing
left for us over here?so what have you got to offer??
?For what??
?Say we tell you what we know about this place and I tell you where you can start looking for
a lot moreHow can you help us? How can we get out of here and back to the Pac Islands without
being vintage cartier watch for sale hassled, our names and faces all over the papers??
?That?s a tall order, Sergeant
?Goddamn it, she didn?t kill him?we didn?t kill him, you said so yourself!?
?Agreed, and I couldn?t care less whether you did or not, whether you were responsible or not
I?ve got other priorities
?Like getting ?caught up with some old comrades? or whatever the hell it was??
?That?s right, I?m owed
?I still can?t figure you??
?You don?t have to
?You were dead!? broke in the perplexed Flannagan, the words rushing out?Delta One from the
illegals was Bourne, and Bourne was dead and Langley proved it to us! But you?re not dead??
?I was taken, Sergeant! That?s all you have to know?that and the fact that I?m working alone
I?ve got a few debts I can call in, but I?m strictly soloI need information and I need it quickly!?
Flannagan shook his head in bewildermentmaybe I can help new rolex watches you there,? he said
quietly, tentatively, ?better than anyone else wouldI was given a special assignment, so I had to
learn things, things someone like me wouldn?t normally be told
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?That sounds like the opening notes of a con song, SergeantWhat was your special
assignment??
?NursemaidTwo years ago Norman began to fall apartI controlled him, and if I couldn?t I was
given a number to call in New York
?Said number being part of the help you can give me
?That and a few license-plate ID?s I wrote down just in case??
?In case,? completed Bourne, ?someone decided your nursemaid?s services were no longer
required
?Something like thatThose pricks never liked us?Norman didn?t see it but I did
?Us? You and Rachel and Swayne??
?The uniformThey look down their rich civilian noses at us like we?re necessary fendi handbags discount garbage, and
they?re right about the necessaryWith their eyes they spat on him, but they
needed him
The soldier boys couldn?t run with itAlbert Armbruster, chairman of the Federal Trade
CommissionMedusa?the civilian inheritors
?When you say you wrote down the license-plate numbers, I assume that means you weren?t
part of the meetings that took place?take place?here on a fairly regular basisThat is, you didn?t
mingle with the guests; you weren?t one of them
?Are you crazy?? screeched Rachel Swayne, in her own succinct way answering Jason?s
question?Whenever there was a real meeting and not a lousy drunken dinner party, Norm told me
to stay upstairs, or if I wanted to, go over to Eddie?s and watch televisionEddie couldn?t leave the
cabinWe weren?t good enough for his big fancy asshole friends! It?s been that way for years
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