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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:27 am
    @@@@@They proceeded for the next few hundred
    @@@@@They proceeded for the next few hundred yards by grasping the nearest bushes, yanking and tugging themselves up the stream against the currentTheir rifles kept slipping off their shoulders, almost dipping into the water, and their feet sunk loathsomely in the river mudTheir shirts, from perspiration, became as wet as their trousersBesides their fatigue and the dank moist air, they were sweating from anxietyThe stream had a force and a persistence which seemed alive; they felt something of the frenzy they would have known if an animal had been snarling at their feetTheir hands began to bleed from the thorns and the paper-edged leaves, and their packs hung heavy
    They moved like this until the stream widened again, became shallowerHere the current was not so rapid, and they made better progress sloughing through the knee-deep waterAfter a few more turns, they came upon a broad flat rock about which the river curved, and Hearn called a break
    The men flopped down, lying silent and motionless for several minutesHearn was a little worried; he could feel his heart beating with the clamor of early fatigue, and his hands trembled a littleFlat on his back, he peered over his chest at the quick rise and fall of his stomachI'm in bad condition, he told himselfThe next couple of days, particularly this first day, was going to be rough; he hadn't had any exercise in too longBut that would pick up; he knew his strength
    And he was getting used to the tension of being pointSomehow it was harder to be the first manAny number of times he had halted, wincing at an unsuspected noise or shuddering when some insect darted across his pathThere had been a few huge spiders with bodies as big as walnuts, a leg spread as wide as his extended fingersThose things got you; he had noticed that they bothered Martinez and Brown as well as himselfThere was a special kind of fear when the ground was unexplored; each step farther into the jungle was difficult
    Croft hadn't shown too much discomfortThat Croft was a boy, all rightIf he wasn't careful Croft would keep effective command of the platoonThe trouble was that Croft knew more, and it was silly to disagree with him; until now the march had demanded a wood
    2:22 am
    @@@@@He would have preferred any other job but
    @@@@@He would have preferred any other job but that of G-3
    Yet the Major never thought of asking for a transfer; nothing could have been more repugnant to himHe had always possessed an intense loyalty to his commander if he felt the man was a good officer, and no one had ever impressed him more than the GeneralIt was inconceivable to Major Dalleson that he should desert the General unless he was ordered to; he would, if the bivouac had been overrun by Japanese troops, probably have died defending the General in his tentIt was the only romantic attitude in his heavy mind and bodyAnd besides this, the Major had his ambition to sustain himIt was, of course, a very backward ambition; the Major had no more hope of becoming a general than a rich merchant in the Middle Ages might have dreamed of becoming kingThe Major wanted to make lieutenant-colonel, or even conceivably colonel before the war ended, and in his position as G-3 he was entitled to thatHis reasoning was simple; he had every intention of remaining in the Army after the war and he judged that if he rose as high as lieutenant-colonel the chances were very good that in the postwar Army he would be demoted no lower than captainOut of all the ranks it was the one he preferred the most next to top sergeant, and he felt a little wistfully that it would not be very correct for him to become an enlisted man againSo, unhappily, he continued to wrestle with his job as the chief of operations
    Now as he completed the timetables he turned with reluctance to the march orders that would be necessary to remove a battalion from the line and divert them to the beachIn itself it was not too complicated a process, but since he didn't know which battalion would be removed, he had to draw up four sets of withdrawal orders and work out the subsidiary movements of the troops who would have to fill the gap in each caseIt kept him busy through most of the afternoon, for, although he assigned part of it to Leach and his other assistant, it was necessary to check their work, and the Major was very thorough, very slow
    He finished that at last, and sketched a tentative march order for the invasion battalion once it had landed at BotoiHere there was no precedent for him to follow -- the General had sketched the outline of the attack, but he had been a little vagueFrom experience, Dalleson knew he would have to submit something and the General would proceed to rip it apart and give him the movement in detailHe hoped to avoid this but he knew there was little likelihood of it, and so, sweating profusely in the heat of the tent, he indicated a route of combat march along one of the main trails, and estimated the time it should take for each portion of itThis was unplotted terrain of his mind as well, and he halted many times, wiped his forehead, and tried unsuccessfully to conceal his anxiety from himselfThe steady murmur of voices in the tent, the steady bustle of men moving from desk to desk, or the draftsmen humming over their work, irritated himOnce or twice he looked up, glared balefully at whoever was talking, and then returned to his work with an audible grunt
    The telephone rang frequently and despite himself Dalleson began to listen to the conversationsOnce for several minutes, Hearn chatted with some other officer over the phone, and Dalleson finally threw down his pencil and shouted, "Goddammit, why don't you men all shut up and get to work?" It was obviously directed toward Hearn, who murmured something into the receiver and hung up after staring thoughtfully at Dalleson
    "Did you give those papers to Hobart?" he asked Hearn
    "What the hell you been doing since then?"
    Hearn grinned and lit a cigarette
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:27 am
    @@@@@The horses stamped their feet and bobbed
    @@@@@The horses stamped their
    feet
    and bobbed their headsA white-aproned man swept the canvas
    walkway
    free of the scattering of leaves that had accumulated then slid back
    the long iron bolt and swung wide the gatesHe disappeared into the
    shadows just as the sound of voices poured from the buildingFor
    three blocks along the street carriages waited to move in turn to
    collect their passengers"Wake up, they're coming," Ezekiel growled
    to the sleeping boys in the footman liveryThey jerked at his prodding
    finger, then grinned and scrambled down from their resting place at
    his feetPeople came pouring through the open doors, talking,
    laughing, pausing on the porch, reluctant to see the end of the
    eveningAs they did every year, they said that this had been the best
    Saint Cecilia ever, the best orchestra, the best food, the best punch,
    the best time they had ever hadThe streetcar driver spoke to
    his horses
    "I'll get you to your stable, boys, don't you fret He pulled the
    handle near his head and the brightly polished bell beside the blue
    light clanged its summons"Good night, good night," cried obedient
    riders to the people on the porch and first one couple, then three,
    then a laughing avalanche of young people ran along the white canvas
    pathTheir elders smiled and made comments about the tirelessness
    of
    youthThey moved at a slower, more dignified pace
    In some cases their dignity failed to hide a certain unsteadiness of
    the legsScarlett plucked Rhett's sleeve"Oh, do let's ride the car,
    RhettThe air feels so good and the carriage will be stuffy
    "There's a long walk after we get offI'd love to walk some He took a deep breath of the
    fresh night air"I would, too," he saidGo on to
    the car and save us a place * * They hadn't far to rideThe
    streetcar turned east on Broad Street, only a block away, then moved
    grandly through the silent city to the end of Broad in front of the
    Post Office building
    2:22 am
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    Close the door and stay in there until I come for you
    "What's going on, Rhett?" Scarlett's voice had a quaver in it"I'll
    tell you later, there's no time now He kept hold
    of the two women, forcing them to match his purposeful but unhurried
    pace to the house and around omega pocket watch its side"Mist' Butler!" shouted one of
    the menA half dozen others followed him as he started to walk
    towards RhettThis isn't good, thought Scarlett, calling him Mr
    Butler instead of Mr
    It's not friendly at all, and there must be close to fifty of them
    "Stay where you are," Rhett shouted back"I'll be back to talk to you
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    stone in the path and Rhett jerked her upright before she could fall
    "I don't care if your leg's broken," he muttered, "keep walking
    "I'm all right," Rosemary saidShe sounds cool as ice, thought
    ScarlettShe despised herself for feeling so nervous
    Thank goodness they pasha cartier watch were almost at the house nowOnly a few more
    steps and they'd be around itShe was unaware that she was holding
    her breath until they neared the house frontWhen she saw the green
    terraces that stepped down to the butterfly lakes and the river, she
    let her breath out in a whoosh of releaseThen she drew it in
    sharplyAs they Gucci Indy Bag turned the corner onto the brick terrace she saw ten
    white men sitting on it, leaning back against the house wallThey
    were all of them thin, lanky, their pale bare ankles showing between
    their clumsy heavy shoes and the bottoms of their faded overalls
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    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:27 am
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    courseTo paraphrase, age doth wither, as they say
    “I’d rather not hear it, General—”
    “No, no, merely a brigadier—”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    392
    “Fine!” Bourne crept over the bed, testing his knee; whatever it was had snapped back“I have
    to get to a phone!”
    “Actually, what outraged me was the goddamned robe!” went on the veteran of El Alamein
    “Fucking disgraceful, I say—forgive me, darling
    “What are you talking about?”
    “The white robe, lad! It had to be Binky’s—the couple across the hall we’re traveling with—he
    must have copped it from that lovely Beau-Rivage vintage hermes in LausanneThe rotten theft is bad enough, but
    to have given it to that swine is unforgivable!”
    In seconds, Jason had grabbed the Jackal’s weapon and crashed his way into the room across the
    hall, immediately knowing that “Binky” deserved more admiration than the brigadier afforded him
    He lay on the floor bleeding from knife wounds across his stomach and throat
    “I can’t reach anyone!” screamed the woman with thinning gray hair; she was on her knees
    above the victim, weeping hysterically“He fought like a madman—somehow he knew that priest
    wouldn’t fire his gun!”
    “Hold the skin together wherever you can,” yelled Bourne, looking over at the telephoneIt was
    intact! He ran to it, and instead of calling the gucci ladies watches front desk or the operator, he dialed the numbers for
    the suite
    “Krupkin?” cried Alex
    “No, me! First: Carlos is on the staircase—the hallway I went into! Second: a man’s cut up,
    same hallway, seventh door on the right! HurryI’ve got a clear line to the office
    “Where the hell is the KGB team?”
    “They just got hereKrupkin called only seconds ago from the lobby—it’s why I thought you
    were—”
    “I’m going to the staircase!”
    “For God’s sake, why?”
    “Because he’s mine!”
    Jason raced to the door, offering no words of comfort for the hysterical wife; he could not
    summon themHe crashed his way through the exit door, the Jackal’s weapon in his handHe
    started down the staircase, suddenly hearing the sound of his own chanel bag price shoes; he stopped on the seventh
    step and removed both, and then his ankle-length socksThe cool surface of the stone on his feet
    somehow reminded him of the jungles, flesh against the cold morning underbrush; for some
    abstract, foolish memory he felt more in command of his fears—the jungles were always the friend
    of Delta One
    Floor by floor he descended, following the inevitable rivulets of blood, larger now, no longer to
    be stemmed, for the last wound was too severe to stop by exerting pressureTwice the Jackal had
    applied such pressure, once at the fifth-floor and again at the third-floor hallway doors, only to be
    followed by streaks of dark red, as he could not manipulate the exterior locks without the tiffany wholesale security
    keys
    The second floor, then the first, there were no more! Carlos was trapped! Somewhere in the
    shadows below was the death of the killer who would set him free! Silently, Bourne removed a
    book of Metropole matches from his pocket; he huddled against the concrete wall, tore out a single
    match and, cupping his hands, fired the packetHe threw it over the railing, the weapon in his hand
    ready to explode with continuous rounds of bullets at anything that moved below!
    There was nothing—nothing! The cement floor was empty—there was no one there!
    Impossible! Jason raced down the last flight of steps and pounded on the door to the lobby
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    393
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    Gates! The mere thought of that son of a bitch was a welcome diversionMedusa had asked a
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    The limousine pulled up to the curb in front of the Carlyle Hotel, once the Kennedy family’s
    favored New York City address, now the temporary clandestine favorite of the SovietsOgilvie
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    The elevator’s ascent to the fourth floor was swift, the walk over the blue-carpeted hallway to
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    stood erect as he pressed the bellTwenty-eight seconds later, irritatingly clocked by the attorney as
    he silently counted “one one-thousand, two one-thousand,” ad nauseam, the door was opened by
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    342
    That, and his singularly acute intellect, had served him well; he was sent to posts where more
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    The greetings were abruptSulikov offered nothing but a stiff, cold handshake and a stiffly
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    “To our business,” said the Russian curtly“You are aware of Admiral Peter Holland?”
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:27 am
    @@@@@Back then people sometimes still came home
    @@@@@Back then
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    bobcats rooting in their trash
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    She was actually very drunk, I realizedbut
    that didn't make her uninteresting
    "The Florida Elizabeth and her sisters grew up in
    was the one that existed after the Indians were
    gone but before old MrWhite Man had fully
    consholconsolidated his holdYour little
    island would have looked very different to you
    I've seen the picturesIt was cabbage palms
    covered in strangler fig and gumbo limbo and slash
    pine inland; it was liveoak and mangrove in the
    few places the ground was wetThere was Cherokee
    bean and inkberry low on the ground, but none of
    that jungle shit that's growing out there nowThe
    beaches are the only thing that's the same, and
    the sea oats, of courselike the hem of a skirt
    The drawbridge was there at the north end, but
    there was just one house
    "What caused all that growth?" I asked"Do you
    have any idea? I mean three quarters of the island
    is buried in it
    She might not have heard"Just the one house,"
    she repeated"Sitting up there on the little rise
    of ground toward the south end and looking like
    something you'd see on the Gracious Homes Tour in
    620
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    driveYou had your grand view of the Gulf to the
    west; your grand view of the Florida coast looking
    eastNot that there was much to see; just Venice She heard
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    dayReally, you should take my
    "Twenty years ago I would have tried to get you
    into bed instead of drinking myself stup
    2:22 am
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    That girl had been Reba, but also Ilse, andwho
    else? Elizabeth Eastlake?
    The idea came out of nowhere, but I thought yes
    487
    The water runs faster now, Elizabeth had said
    Soon come the rapidsDo you feel that?
    I felt it
    "Daddy, are you there?"
    "Yes," I said again"Honey, be good to yourself,
    okay? And try not to get too spun upMy friend
    down here says in the end we wear out our worries
    I sort of believe that
    "You always make me feel better," she said
    "How many bunches?"
    How many years since she'd asked that? Twelve?
    Fourteen? It didn't matter, I remembered the
    answer
    "A million and one for under your pillow," I said
    Then I said goodbye and hung up and thought that
    if Carson Jones hurt my daughter, I'd kill him
    The thought made me smile a little, wondering how
    many fathers had had the same thought and made the
    same promiseBut of all those fathers, I might be
    the only one who could kill a heedless, daughterhurting
    suitor with a few strokes of a paintbrush
    488
    xi
    Dario Nannuzzi and one of his partners, Jimmy
    Yoshida, came out the very next dayYoshida was a
    Japanese-American Dorian GrayGetting out of
    Nannuzzi's Jaguar in my driveway, dressed in faded
    straight-leg jeans and an even more faded Rihanna
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    in the breeze off the Gulf, he looked eighteenBy
    the time he got to the end of the walk, he looked
    twenty-eightWhen he shook my hand, up close and
    personal, I could see the lines tattooed around
    his eyes and mouth and put him somewhere in his
    late forties
    "Pleased to meet you," he said"The gallery is
    still buzzing over your visitMary Ire has been
    back three times to ask when we're going to sign
    you
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    I cringed back, and, abruptly, Ian crumpled forward, falling to his knees, falling into meHe
    buried his head in my stomach, and his arms locked around my waistHe was shaking, shaking
    hard, and loud, desperate sobs were breaking out of his chest
    “No, Ian, no,” I beggedThis was so much worse than his anger
    I was crying, too, shaking, too, though that might have been him shaking me
    “I have to, I have to,” I sobbed
    And then we cried wordlessly for a long time
    His tears dried before mineEventually, he straightened up and pulled me into his arms again
    He waited until I was able to speak
    “Sorry,” he whisperedI should have told you, when you didn't guessI didn't
    want to tell you–to hurt you–to hurt me
    “We need to talk about this, WandaIt's not a done deal
    He shook his head, clenching his teeth“How long? How long have you been planning this?”
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    Croft was doubtfulHis instincts, his experience, told him that the pass would be dangerous, probably futile, and yet there was no alternativeThey could climb Mount Anaka, but Hearn would never hear of that"Ain't nothin' else to do, I suppose But he felt disturbedThe more he looked at the mountain
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    They went down again to the men in the hollow, put on their packs, and began to marchHearn alternated with Brown and Croft in leading the platoon, while Martinez acted as point and scouted ahead, almost always thirty or forty yards in front of themThe grass was slick from the night's dew, and the men slipped frequently as they moved Tiffany Bracelets downhill, panted hoarsely as they toiled up an ascending slopeHearn, however, was feeling goodHis body had reacted from the preceding day's march, and was stronger now, the waste burned out of himHe had awakened with stiff muscles and a sore shoulder, but rested and cheerfulThis morning his legs were firm, and he sensed greater reserves of rolex watches women enduranc
    2:22 am
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    @@@@@Hearn threw his cigarette away
    On his left was the island, not more than half a mile across the waterThe beach was narrow at this point and the coconut trees grew almost to the water's edge; behind them grew the brush, a dense tangle of roots and vines and plants, of trees and foliageInland there were hills, set heavily on the earth, their ridge-lines lost in the forests that covered themTheir lines were ugly, broken and scraggly, with bald patches of rock like the hide of a bison when it is shedding in summerHearn felt the weight and resistance of that landIf the terrain was similar at the place where they landed tomorrow, it would be hell working through itAbruptly, the idea of the patrol seemed a little fantastic to him
    For a moment he became aware again of the steady grind of the assault craft's motorsCummings had sent him out on this, and therefore he could distrust the mission of the patrol, distrust Cummings's motives in initiating itIt seemed a little inconceivable that Cummings should have made the mistake of transferring him; certainly the General must have known that this was what he preferred
    Was it remotely possible that the decision to transfer him had come from Dalleson? Hearn doubted itWith ease he could imagine the scene in which Cummings had given the idea to DallesonAnd the patrol was quite likely an extension of the General's motives in assigning him to recon
    But that seemed a little extravagantHe had discovered the hatred Cummings was capable of bearing, but he could not imagine Cummings expending a platoon for a week in order to work out a minor vengeanceThere were other and easier ways; besides, Cummings was too much of a military craftsman to be wastefulConsciously, he must have considered the patrol as an effective maneuverWhat bothered Hearn was that the General might not be aware of his own motives
    Certainly, it seemed a little unbelievable that they could march for thirty or forty miles through unexplored jungle and hills, go through a mountain pass, scout the Japanese rear and return; the more carefully he considered it the more difficult it becameHe was inexperienced, of course, and the mission might actually be easier to accomplish than he estimated, but at best it was a doubtful business
    It softened the edge of his satisfaction at being given a platoonWhatever Cummings's reasons, there was no assignment Hearn preferred moreHe foresaw the annoyances, the dangers, the inevitable disillusionments, but at least this was a positive actionFor the first time in many months there were a few things he wanted again, simply and hone
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
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    his memory by being too cowardly to take a cup of tea with them,
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    on
    some of the shipsMost of them, according to the snobbish, elegant
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