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.Childhood is when you're supposed to learn alot of things.Like caring not stealing.I don't blame you, brought up the wayyou've been, but you really don't care.Not about anyone.""That's not true!""And does shouting make it true?" Gentle fingers stroked my brow."Tell me,how would you prevent all this bloodshed?"I shrugged."If she doesn't have the brooch, she can't try to sell it to Amos;no reason to take the risk of talking to him, not if she had the brooch, andthen lost it.""So?""I'd better steal it, hadn't I?"She drained the last of her water."You'd better think that over for a longwhile.Sounds awfully risky.But& ""Well?""Not doing it sounds even riskier.That'll be ten pesos.Now.""How'd you like to try for eleven?"She smiled."I could always use the money."I met Marie at the mouth of the tunnel.She was sitting cross-legged on arock, fondling the pouch on her lap, squinting at the setting sun, murmuringto herself."Well?" She drummed her heels impatiently against the rock."How did you dodown at the 'port?""Not too bad." I tossed her my pouch."I picked up just short of two hundredpesos, plus a bit of schrift jewelry." That sounded lame.More specific "Agold beltclip; sold it for another hundred.How about you?""Not very well.Only seventeen and a half."I took my flash out of my pocket and lit it as we entered the tunnel."Money is still tight, David, eh?""Yes, it is," I answered absently, scanning the floor of the tunnel fortripwires and triggers as we walked homeward.The problem still was how to handle it.Maybe Elren would just take a sureprofit and keep her mouth shut; possibly the whole mess would just blow over.That way, we could go back to Carlos' original plan:hole up, let me continue to study Elwerean behavior, then, when I was ready,start to work Elwer.Just a few runs through Elwer, and I've have enough tolast me the rest of my life.And what then? What do you do when you're rich?I chuckled.That wasn't a problem I'd ever had.So, it came down to two choices: either forget trying to steal the brooch backand hope; or steal it back, hide it, and expect Elren to keep her mouth shut.But maybe she'd already talked.Or, at least, given out some free hints toPage 31 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlAmos van Ingstrand as a foreshadowing of what was to come.Maybe, maybe, maybe you can live your whole life on maybes."Hold on a second." I stuck my arm out in front of Marie.I knelt on the floor of the tunnel.This close to home, we set our traps verycarefully, hiding them well.When Carlos and I had set this one, we'd carefully dug a shallow trench forthe tripwire, then buried the wire, the charges, and some scrap steel, markingthe spot with two pebbles on either side of the buried wire.If anythingmassing more than thirty or forty kilos stepped on the wire, it would pull thepins from the charges, setting up a loud hissing as the noisy igniters burnedaway; a scant ten seconds later, the plastique would go off, filling the airwith thousands of killing fragments.This trap was by way of a final, possibly deadly warning; it was intended toannounce firmly that proceeding farther was not wise.The marking pebbles were still there, but they overlapped their ownimpressions in the dust.I leaned over and dug a finger into the ground.Thedirt was too loose; it had been freshly repacked.Marie looked up at me, her face a ghostly white in the light of my flash."There's been somebody here."I nodded.This looked bad.Very bad.Nobody other than ourselves had been inour area of the warrens for years."Don't worry about it," I said."It's nothing."She considered that for a moment."No, it isn't.David, you're going to haveto do something.Please."I nodded."I will.Just give me until the day after tomorrow.Okay?"She cocked her head to one side."Okay."THIRD INTERLUDE:Miguel Curdova and His SecretaryOn the morning of an afternoon, Miguel Ruiz de Curdova always ate little; atnoon, he would eat nothing
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