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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:08 am
    @@@@@These not-quite-offhand scribbles had been
    @@@@@These not-quite-offhand
    scribbles had been laid along the horizon-line of
    the Gulf to indicate sunset
    They were genius writ smallIt was my horizon,
    the one I saw from Little PinkI knew that just
    as I knew the artist had been listening to the
    shells grind steadily beneath him as he turned
    blank white paper into what his eye saw and his
    mind translatedOn the horizon was a ship,
    probably a tankerIt could have been the very one
    I'd drawn my first evening at Number 13 Duma Key
    RoadThe style was nothing at all like mine, but
    the choice of subject-matter was damn near
    identical
    Scribbled almost carelessly at the bottom: Salv
    Dalí
    iv
    Miss Eastlake - Elizabeth - had her cigarette
    while Oprah questioned Kirstie Alley on the always
    fascinating subject of weight-lossWireman
    produced egg salad sandwiches, which were
    deliciousMy eyes kept straying to the framed
    268
    Dalí sketch, and I kept thinking - of course -
    Hello, DalíPhil came on and began
    berating a couple of fat ladies in the audience
    who had apparently volunteered to be berated, I
    told Wireman and Elizabeth that I really ought to
    be getting back
    Elizabeth used the remote to silence DrPhil,
    then held out the book the remote had been sitting
    onHer eyes looked both humble and hopeful
    "Wireman says you'll come and read to me on some
    afternoons, Edmund, is that true?"
    We're forced to make some decisions in a split
    second, and I made one thenI decided not to look
    at Wireman, who was sitting to Elizabeth's left
    The acuity she'd exhibited at her play-table was
    fading, even I could see that, but I thought there
    was still quite a lot leftA glance in Wireman's
    direction would be enough to tell her that this
    was news to me, and she'd be embarrassedI didn't
    want her to be embarrassed, partly because I liked
    her and partly because I suspected life would hold
    a great many embarrassments for her in the year or
    two aheadIt would soon be more than forgetting
    names
    269
    "We've discussed it," I said
    "Perhaps you'd read me a poem this afternoon," she
    saidI could do
    without Oprah, but a life without books is a
    thirsty life, and one without poetry isIt was a bewildered sound that hurt my
    hear
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:08 am
    @@@@@ It was late, no sunlight left lingering
    @@@@@
    It was late, no sunlight left lingering behind the western mountainsBehind us, Ian and Kyle
    were taking turns driving the big moving truck loaded with our spoils, just as Jared and I took
    turns with the vanThey had to drive the heavy vehicle more carefully than Jared did the van
    The headlights had faded slowly into the distance, until they disappeared around a wide curve in
    the road
    We were on the homestretchIn a few short hours, I would see Jamie
    We would unload the welcome provisions, surrounded by smiling faces
    My first, I realized
    For once the return would bring nothing but joyWe carried no doomed hostages this time
    I wasn't paying attention to anything but anticipationThe road didn't seem to be flying by too
    fast; it couldn't fly past fast enough as far as I was concerned
    The truck's headlights reappeared behind us
    “Kyle must be driving,” I murmured“They're catching up
    And then the red and blue lights suddenly spun out in the dark night behind usThey reflected
    off all the mirrors, dancing spots of color across the roof, the seats, our frozen faces, and the
    dashboard, where the needle on the speed gauge showed that we were traveling twenty miles
    over the speed limit
    The sound of a siren pierced the desert calm
    CHAPTER 48
    Detained
    The red and blue lights swirled in time with the siren's cry
    Before the souls had come to this place, these lights and sounds had had only one meaningThe
    law, the keepers of the peace, the punishers of offenders
    Now, again, the flashing colors and angry noise had only one meaningA very similar meaning
    Still the keepers of the peace
    It wasn't as common a sight or sound as it had been bef
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:15 am
    @@@@@"I hope, Robert, that you pick it up Once
    @@@@@"I hope, Robert, that you pick it up Once more he stared into Hearn's eye
    And slowly Hearn was realizing that he meant itIt was apparent in his expressionA series of emotions, subtle and conflicting, flowed behind the surface of his face"If you want to play games," he saidFor the first time Cummings could remember, his voice was unsteadyAfter a moment or two, Hearn bent down, picked up the cigarette, and dropped it in an ashtrayCummings forced himself to face the hatred in Hearn's eyesHe was feeling an immense relief
    "If you want to, you can go to chow now
    "General, I'd like a transfer to another division Hearn was lighting another cigarette, his hands not completely steady
    "Suppose I don't care to arrange it?" Cummings was calm, almost cheerfulHe leaned back in his chair, and tapped his foot slowly"Frankly, I don't particularly care to have you around as my aide any longerYou aren't ready to appreciate this lesson yetI think I'm going to send you to the salt minesSuppose after lunch you report over to Dalleson's section, and work under him for a while Hearn's face had become expressionless againHe started toward the exit of the tent, and then paused"General?"
    "Yes?" Now that it was over, Cummings wished that Hearn would leaveThe victory was losing its edge, and minor regrets, delicate little reservations, were cloying him
    "Short of bringing in every man in the outfit, all six thousand of them, and letting them pick up your cigarettes, how are you going to impress them?"
    This was the thing that had sullied his pleasureCummings realized it now
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:16 am
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    "Perhaps we should sit downIt's a long, tiring story Slowly,
    methodically, rigidly unemotional, Rhett told his sister about Scarlett's
    two earlier marriages, about his proposal and Scarlett's agreement to
    marry him for his moneyHe also told her about Scarlett's
    near-obsessive love for Ashley Wilkes throughout cartier watches women all the years he'd
    known her"But if you knew that, why on earth did you marry her?"
    Rosemary asked"Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile
    "Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave
    Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses
    Because she was unlike any woman I had ever knownShe chloe dior fascinated
    me,
    infuriated me, drove me madI loved her as consumingly as she
    loved
    himFrom the day I first laid eyes on herIt was a kind of
    disease There was a weight of sorrow in his voiceHe bowed his
    head
    into his two hands and laughed shakilyHis voice was muffled and
    blurred by his fingers"What a grotesque hermes purse practical joke life isNow
    Ashley Wilkes is a free man and would marry Scarlett on a moment's
    notice, and I want to be rid of herNaturally that makes her
    determined to have meShe wants only what she cannot have
    Rhett raised his head"I'm afraid," he said quietly, "afraid that it
    will all begin againI know that she's fake cartier heartless and completely
    selfish, that she's like a child who cries for a toy and then breaks it
    once she has itBut there are moments when she tilts her head at a
    certain angle, or she smiles that gleeful smile, or she suddenly looks
    lost-and I come close to forgetting what I know Rosemary put her hand on his chanel handbags sale arm
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:08 am
    @@@@@He couldn’t have presumed that I knew about
    @@@@@He couldn’t
    have presumed that I knew about Medusa’s penetration because we hadn’t even started it
    “But when you did, the sequence had to bother him if only in the sense that although they were
    poles apart, one crisis followed too quickly upon anotherWhat was it? A matter of hours?”
    “Less than twenty-four Still, they were poles apart
    “Not for an analyst’s analyst,” countered Holland“If it walks like an odd duck and sounds like
    an odd duck, look for an odd duckI submit that somewhere along the line DeSole made the
    connection between Jason Bourne and the madman who had infiltrated Medusa—the new
    Medusa
    “For Christ’s sake, how?”
    “I don’t knowMaybe because you told us Bourne came out of the old Saigon Medusa—that’s
    one hell of a connection to begin with
    “My God, you may be right,” said Alex, falling back on the couch“The driving force we gave
    our unnamed madman was that he’d been cut off from, the new MedusaI used the words myself
    with every phone call‘He’s spent years putting it together ‘He’s got names and ranks and
    banks in ZurichJesus, I’m blind! I said those things to total strangers on a telephone fishing
    expedition and never even thought about having mentioned Bourne’s origins in Medusa at that
    meeting when DeSole was here
    “Why should you have thought about it? You and your man decided to play a separate game all
    by yourselves
    “The reasons were goddamned valid,” broke in Conklin“For all I knew, you were a Medusan
    “Come on, don’t give me that shit‘We’ve got a top max out at Langley’ those were the
    words I heard from LondonWhat would you have thought, what would you have done?”
    “Exactly what you did,” answered Holland, a tight grin on his lips“But you’re supposed to be
    so bright, so much smarter than I’m supposed to be
    “Don’t be hard on yourself; you did what any of us would have done in your place
    “For that I do thank yo
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:08 am
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    Gucci Indy Bag,fake hermes,logo chanel,rolex oyster perpetual day-date,gucci hobo horsebit@@@@@So why do I hear lead in your
    voice?"
    "She wanted to know how I knew
    "Not how you knew she was bumping uglies with this
    guy, but-"
    "How I diagnosed his suicidal depression from
    fifteen hundred miles away
    "Ah! And what did you say?"
    "Not having a good lawyer present, I was reduced
    to the truth
    "And she thought you were un poco loco
    "No, Wireman, she thought I was muy loco
    "Does it matter?"
    "NoBut she's going to brood about Gucci Indy Bag this - believe
    me when I say Pam's UOlympic Brooding Team
    material - and I'm afraid my good deed could
    explode in my younger daughter's face
    "Assuming your wife's looking for someone to
    blame
    "It's a safe assumption
    "It'd rock Ilse's world more than it deserves to
    be rockedTom's been like an uncle to her and
    Melinda their whole lives
    366
    "Then you'll have to convince your wife that you
    really saw what you saw, and your fake hermes daughter had
    nothing to do with it
    "How do I do that?"
    "How about you tell her something about herself
    you have no way of knowing?"
    "Wireman, you're crazy! I can't just make
    something like that happen!"
    "How do you know? I have to get off the phone,
    amigo - by the sound, Miss Eastlake's lunch just
    went on the floorI'll see you later?"
    "Yeah," I saidI was about to add goodbye, but he
    was already goneI hung up, wondering where I logo chanel had
    put Pam's gardening gloves, the ones that said
    HANDS OFFMaybe if I had those, Wireman's idea
    might not turn out to be so crazy after all
    I looked for them all over the house and came up
    emptyMaybe I threw them away after making the
    Friends with Benefits drawing, but I couldn't
    remember doing itI can't remember nowAll I
    know is that I never saw them again
    vii
    367
    The room which Wireman and Elizabeth called the
    China Parlor was rolex oyster perpetual day-date filled with a sad, subtropical
    winterlight that afternoonThe rain was heavier
    now, drumming against the walls and windows in
    waves, and a wind had gotten up, clattering
    through the palms surrounding El Palacio and
    sending shadows flying across the wallsFor the
    first time since I'd been coming there, I could
    see no sense to the china figures on the long
    table; there were no tableaux, only a clutter of
    people, animals, and gucci hobo horsebit buildi
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:10 am
    @@@@@I realized that he'd been worried about us,
    @@@@@I realized that he'd been worried about us, just as everyone
    worried when someone left the safety of the caves
    “We brought you a gift,” Jared said as he pushed himself free behind meHe straightened up
    and reached back for a boxWith a flourish, he held it up, displaying the label on the side“How much did you get?”
    “Two casesAnd we've found a much better way to renew our stores than to have Wanda
    stabbing herself
    Doc did not laugh at Jared's jokeInstead he turned to stare at me piercinglyWe both must
    have been thinking the same thing:Convenient, since Wanda won't be around
    “Did you get the cryotanks?” he asked, more subdued
    Jared noticed the look and the tensionHe glanced at me, his expression impossible to readIt was all the car could hold
    While I spoke, Jared yanked on the rope behind himWith a clatter of loose rock, the second
    box of Heal, followed by the tanks, tumbled onto the floor behind himThe tanks clanked like
    metal, though they were built of no element that existed on this planetI'd told him it was fine
    to treat the empty cryotanks roughly; they were built to withstand much worse abuse than being
    tugged through a stone channelThey glinted on the floor now, looking shiny and pristine
    Doc picked one up, freeing it from the rope, and turned it around in his hands
    “Ten?” The number seemed to surprise himDid he think it too many? Or not enough? “Are
    they difficult to use?”
    “No
    Doc nodded, his eyes examining the alien constructionI could feel Jared watching me, but I
    kept my eyes on Doc
    “What did Jeb, Brandt, and Aaron say?” I asked
    Doc looked up, locked his eyes on mine
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:18 am
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    gucci ladies watch,gold gucci watch,Cartier Tortue,gucci mens watch,dior saddle@@@@@Hearn and the clerk on duty with him sat drowsing in their chairs, their shirts opened, their eyes turned away from the glare of the Coleman lanterns, the perspiration coursing down their facesIt was a convenient time to think, for with the exception of the hourly telephone reports from the front there was no work to do, and the bare tables, the empty desks, and the draped gucci ladies watch map-boards surrounded them, induced the proper mood of somnolence and absorptionSporadically, like a muted burst of thunder, they could hear the harassing fire of the artillery sounding in the night
    Hearn stretched, looked at his watch"What time do you get relieved, Stacey?" he asked
    Hearn was on until threeHe sighed, stretched his arms, and slumped down in his chairThere was a gold gucci watch magazine in his lap, but he had scanned through it, and a little bored, he tossed it onto a tableAfter a moment or two, he took a letter from his breast pocket, and read it again slowlyIt was from a college friend

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    Only that was all bullshitThere would be the witch-hunt after the war all right, but it would hardly be a frightened witch-huntWhat was it Cummings had said? America's energy had become kinetic and it would not be reversedCummings wasn't frightened, not in that dior saddle s
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:18 am
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    "I'll take your Celie, thenScarlett will let you borrow Pansy to
    help you dress, won't you, Scarlett?" Scarlett smiledThere was no
    need for tears"I'll go with you, Rosemary," she said sweetly New Year's Eve would come to the plantation, too
    Without a ballroom full of people, just Rhett and chanel earrings logo her"How generous
    of
    you, Scarlett," Miss Eleanor said"I know you'll miss going to the
    balls next weekYou're luckier than you deserve, Rosemary, to have
    such a thoughtful sister-in-law
    "I don't think either of them should go, Mama, I won't allow it," said
    RhettRosemary opened her mouth to protest, but her mother's
    slightly
    raised hand stopped herButler chanel clutch spoke quietly: "You're being
    rather inconsiderate, Rhett; Rosemary loves the Landing as much as
    you
    do, and she doesn't have the freedom to come and go the way you
    canI
    believe you should take her, especially since you're also going to
    Julia Ashley'sShe's very fond of your sister Scarlett's mind was
    racingWhat did she care about missing some omega planet ocean dances if she could be
    alone with Rhett? She'd get rid of Rosemary somehow-maybe this
    Miss
    Ashley would invite her to stay at her placeThen there would be only
    RhettShe remembered him in her room when she was
    at
    the Landing beforeHe'd held her, comforted her, spoken with such
    tenderness "Just wait till you see Miss Julia's plantation,
    Scarlett," tiffany replica jewelry Rosemary said loudly"It's what a plantation is supposed
    to be Rhett was riding ahead of them, pushing aside or tearing the
    vines of honeysuckle that had grown across the trail through the
    pinewoodsScarlett followed Rosemary, uninterested for the moment
    in
    what Rhett was doing, her mind busy with other thingsThank
    goodness
    this old horse is so fat and omega deville watch lazy
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:08 am
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    “And you don’t want to call it for fear of exposing your possession of the number—initial codes,
    that sort of thingI understand, of courseWhy send out an alert when it’s unnecessary? I’ll take
    care of it Krupkin looked at Jason, his expression that of an older, understanding colleague“Be
    of gucci women watch good and firm heart, MrBourne, as the czarists would say facing no discernible harm
    whatsoeverDespite your apprehensions, I have enormous faith in Langley’s abilitiesThey’ve
    harmed my not insignificant operations more than I care to dwell upon
    “I’m sure you’ve done your share of damage to them,” said Jason impatiently, glancing at the
    telephone console
    “That prada milano knowledge keeps me going
    “Thanks, Kruppie,” said Alex“In your words, you’re a fine old enemy
    “Again, shame on your parents! If they had stayed in Mother Russia, just thinkBy now you and
    I would be running the Komitet
    “And have two lakefront houses?”
    “Are you crazy, Aleksei? We would own the entire Lake Geneva!” Krupkin turned and walked
    to the door, letting himself out gucci horsebit hobo with quiet laughter
    “It’s all a damned game with you people, isn’t it?” said Bourne
    “Up to a point,” agreed Alex, “but not when stolen information can lead to the loss of life—on
    both sides, incidentallyThat’s when the weapons come out and the games are over
    “Reach Langley,” said Jason abruptly, nodding at the console“Holland’s got some explaining
    to do
    “Reaching bags dolce and gabbana Langley wouldn’t help—”
    “What?”
    “It’s too early; it’s barely seven o’clock in the States, but not to worry, I can bypass Conklin
    again reached into a pocket and withdrew a small notebook
    “Bypass?” cried Bourne“What kind of double talk is that? I’m close to the edge, Alex, those
    are my children over there!”
    “Relax, all it means is that I’ve got his unlisted home tiffany toggle heart numbe
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:08 am
    @@@@@In other words, not like himself at all"If
    @@@@@In other words, not like
    himself at all"If you hate it, I'll junk it and
    start again
    "You didn't get that picture from Ilse," I saidPam found it in one of her old
    photo albums
    All at once everything made sense
    "How many times have you talked to her, Jerome?"
    He winced"That hurts, but maybe you have a right
    Probably half a dozen timesI started by telling
    her you were getting yourself in a jam down here,
    550
    and that you were taking a lot of other people
    with you-"
    "What the fuck!" I cried, stung
    "People who'd invested a lot of hope and trust in
    you, not to mention money-"
    "I'm perfectly capable of refunding any money the
    people at the Scoto may have laid out on-"
    "Shut up," he said, and I had never heard such
    coldness in his voiceOr seen it in his eyes
    "You ain't an asshole, muchacho, so don't act like
    oneCan you refund their trust? Can you refund
    their prestige, if the great new artist they've
    promised their customers doesn't materialize for
    either the lecture or the show?"
    "Wireman, I can do the show, it's just the goddam
    lecture-"
    "They don't know that!" he shoutedHe had a hell
    of a shouting voice on him, a real courtroom
    bellowElizabeth took no notice, but peeps took
    off from the water's edge in a brown sheet"They
    have this funny idea that maybe on April fifteenth
    you'll be a no-show, or that you'll yank your
    stuff altogether and they'll have a bunch of empty
    rooms during the tenderloin of the tourist season,
    551
    when they're used to doing a third of their yearly
    business
    "They have no reason to think that," I said, but
    my face was throbbing like a hot brick
    "No? How did you think about this kind of behavior
    in your other life, amigo? What conclusions did
    you draw about a supplier who contracted for
    cement and then didn't show up on the dime? Or a
    plumbing sub who got the job on a new bank and
    wasn't there on the day he was supposed to start?
    Did you feel real, I dunno, confident about guys
    like that? Did you believe their excuses?"
    I said nothing
    "Dario sends you e-mails asking for decisions, he
    gets no answerHe and the others call on the
    phone and get vague replies like 'I'll think about
    it' This would make them nervous if you were
    Jamie Wyeth or Dale Chihuly, and you're not
    Basically you're just some guy who walked in off
    the streetSo they call me, and I do the best I
    can - I'm your fuckin agent, after all - but I'm
    no artist, and neither are they, not reallyWe're
    like a bunch of cab-drivers trying to deliver a
    baby
    552
    "I get it," I sa
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:18 am
    @@@@@There will be a dramatic increase in the
    @@@@@There will be a dramatic increase in the number of new multimillionairesThere also will be those who are left behind
    Today, I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideasThey want things to be the way they were; they resist change I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their bossSadly they fail to realize that they might be the problemOld ideas are their biggest liability It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone
    One afternoon I was teaching investing using a board game I had invented, CASHFLOW, as a teaching toolA friend had brought someone along to attend the classThis friend of a friend was recently divorced, had been badly burned in the divorce settlement, and was now searching for some answersHer friend thought the class might help
    The game was designed to help people learn how money worksIn playing the game, they learn about the interaction of the income statement with the balance sheetThey learn how "cash flows" between
    the two and how the road to wealth is through striving to increase your monthly cash flow from the asset column to the point that it exceeds your j monthly expensesOnce you accomplish this, you are able to get out of the "Rat Race" and out onto the "Fast Track"
    As I have said, some people hate the game, some love it, and others miss the pointThis woman missed a valuable opportunity to learn somethingIn the opening round, she drew a "doodad" card with the boat on itAt first she was happy "Oh, I've got a boat Then, as her friend tried to explain how the numbers worked on her income statement and balance sheet, she got frustrated because she "had never liked mathThe rest of her table waited while her friend continued explaining the relationship between the income statement, balance sheet and monthly cash flow Suddenly, when she realized how the numbers worked, it dawned on her that her boat was eating her aliveLater on in the game, she was also "downsized" and had a chil
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:15 am
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    @@@@@“You can’t go there now
    “It neuters—fucks up—more than the hotelThis isn’t the Jackal! It’s Hong Kong! The externals
    were right, but my instincts were wrongWrong!”
    “Which way do you want to go?” asked the director softly
    “I don’t know,” answered Conklin, a plaint in his voiceReach our man, of
    course, as soon as possible
    “I spoke to David—I spoke to him about an hour ago,” said Panov, instantly correcting himself
    “You spoke to him?” cried Alex“It’s late and you were at homeHow?”
    “You know my answering machine,” said the doctor“If I picked up every crazy call after
    midnight, I’d never get to the office in the morningSo I let it ring, and because I was getting ready
    to go out and meet you, I listenedAll he said was ‘Reach me,’ and by the time I got to the phone,
    he’d hung up
    “You called him back? On your phone?”
    “Well yes,” answered Panov hesitantly“He was very quick, very guardedHe just wanted us
    to know what was happening, that ‘M’—he called her ‘M’—was leaving with the children first
    thing in the morningThat was it; he hung up right away
    “They’ve got your boy’s name and address by now,” said Holland“Probably the message as
    well
    “A location, yes; the message, maybe,” broke in Conklin, speaking quietly, rapidly“Not an
    address, not a name
    “By morning they will have—”
    “By morning he’ll be on his way to Tierra del Fuego, if need be
    “Christ, what have I done?” exclaimed the psychiatrist
    “Nothing anybody else in your place wouldn’t have done,” replied A
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:11 am
    @@@@@"I haven't told the others yet, I wanted to
    @@@@@"I
    haven't told the others yet, I wanted to wait for you Scarlett
    hugged Kathleen"How exciting! You'll let me give the wedding,
    won't
    you? We'll have a wonderful party
    "So I got off the hook," she told Mrs"But only by
    the skin of my teeth
    I'm not so sure being The O'Hara is exactly what I thought it would
    be
    "And what was that, exactly, Mrs In August the potatoes were
    harvestedIt was the best crop they'd ever had, the farmers said
    Then they began to reap the wheatScarlett loved to watch them
    The
    shiny sickles flashed in the sun and the golden stalks fell like
    rippling silkSometimes she took the place of the man who followed
    the reaperShe'd borrow the staff with a curved end that the farmers
    called the loghter-hook and draw up the fallen wheat into small
    sheavesShe couldn't master the quick twisting movement the man
    made
    to tie each sheaf with a stalk of wheat, but she became very handy
    with
    the loghter-hookIt sure beats picking cotton, she told ColumYet
    there were still moments when sharp pangs of homesickness caught
    her
    off guardHe understood her feelings, he said, and Scarlett was sure
    he didHe truly was the brother she'd always wanted
    Colum seemed preoccupied, but he said it was nothing more than his
    impatience that the wheat took precedence over finishing the work on
    the inn that Brendon Kennedy was making in the building next to his
    barScarlett remembered the desperate man in the church, the man
    Colum had said was "on the run She wondered if there were more of
    them, what Colum did for themBut she'd really rather not know, and
    she didn't askShe preferred to think about happy things, like
    Kathleen's weddingKevin O'Connor wasn't the man Scarlett would
    have
    picked for her, but he was clearly head over heels in love, and he had
    a good farm with twenty cows at grass, so he was considered a very
    good
    c
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    10:08 am
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    there were extra things for Jared, packaged foods with brand names I recognized–Red Vines,
    Snickers, Pop-TartsI tried to imagine how the humans had gotten their hands on these
    delicacies
    I didn't expect him to share–of course not–but I wondered sometimes if he thought I was
    hoping he wouldOne of my few entertainments was hearing him eat his treats, because he
    always did so ostentatiously, perhaps rubbing it in the way he had with the pillow that first
    night
    Once, Jared slowly ripped open a bag of Cheetos–showy about it as usual–and the rich smell of
    fake powdered cheese rolled through my cave… delicious, irresistibleHe ate one slowly, letting
    me hear each distinct crunch
    My stomach growled loudly, and I laughed at myselfI hadn't laughed in so long; I tried to
    remember the last time and couldn't–just that strange bout of macabre hysteria in the desert,
    which really didn't count aslaughterEven before I'd come here, there hadn't been much I'd
    found funny
    But this seemed hilarious to me for some reason–my stomach yearning after that one small
    Cheeto–and I laughed againA sign of madness, surely
    I didn't know how my reaction offended him, but he got up and disappearedAfter a long
    moment, I could hear him eating the Cheetos again, but from farther awayI peeked out of the
    hole to see that he was sitting in the shadows at the end of the corridor, his back to meI pulled
    my head inside, afraid he might turn and catch me watchingFrom then on, he stayed down at
    that end of the hall as much as possibleOnly at night did he stretch out in front of my prison
    Twice a day–or rather twice a night, as he never took me when the others were about–I got to
    walk to the room with the rivers; it was a highlight, despite the terror, as it was the only time I
    was not hunched into the unnatural shapes my small cave forced on meEach time I had to
    crawl back inside was harder than the last
    Three times that week, always during the sleeping hours, someone came to check on us
    The first time it was Kyle
    Jared's sudden lunge to his feet woke me“Get out of here,” he warned, holding the gun ready
    “Just checking,” Kyle saidHis voice was far away but loud and rough enough that I was sure it
    was not his brot
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    His lungs bursting, every muscle and tendon in his legs stretched to the breaking point, St
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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    As Jamie explained, he continued forward until his fingers found my arm, and then my hand
    “I'm not reallyhiding, JamieI told you I had to think
    “You could think with Jeb there, right?”
    “Where do you want me to go? Back to Jared's room? This is where I'm supposed to be The familiar stubborn edge entered his voice
    “Why is everyone so busy?” I asked to distract him“What's Doc doing?”
    My attempt was unsuccessful; he didn't answer
    After a minute of silence, I touched his cheek“Look, you should be with JebTell the others to
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    “You can't sleep here
    I felt his head shake in my hand
    “I'll go get mats and pillows, at least
    “I don't need more than one
    “I'm not staying with Jared while he's being such a jerk
    I groaned internally“Then you stay with Jeb and his snoresYou belong with them, not with
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    “I belong wherever I want to be
    The threat of Kyle finding me here was heavy on my mindBut that argument would only make
    Jamie feel responsible for protecting me
    “Fine, but you have to get Jeb's permissionI'm not going to bug Jeb tonight
    “What is Jeb doing?”
    Jamie didn't answ
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