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"As a loyal citizen of , "I would like to think I helped in some small way to make it a reality"
"You have,assured him "But first, you must leave the country by no later than two o'clock this afternoon That's when, according to my sources at the Justice Department, you will be taken into custody"
"And accused of murder?"
"No, willful destruction of federal property"
"It sounds rather mundane"
"Only the first tier of the government's case The murder conspiracy at Orion Lake co of illegal is"
"I i like locusts"
"Make no reat But if you quietly disappear and keep a low profile while conducting business fro, I believe we can weather the storress and the White House are not about to throw a shroud over relations between our two governments because of the acts of one e of your activities while our Infor infor all blame on Taiwanese capitalists"
"Then I as"
"You will be protected The Justice Department and State Department will demand your extradition, but you can rest assured it will never happen, certainly not to a man of your wealth and power You have many years of service to the People's Republic left I speak for our countrymen when I say that we do not want to lose you"
"I aood-bye"
"Until we"By the way, how did you find the date pancakes?"
"Please tell the chef that he should use sweet rice flour instead of comstarch"
The Boeing 737 soared through a cloudless sapphire sky andbank to the west as it passed over the Mississippi Delta The pilot glanced out his sideand down at the marshlands of Plaquemines Parish Five short reen-broaters of the Mississippi River at the little town of Myrtle Grove At the instructions of his employer, the pilot had flown in a southwesterly direction fro due west on a course that would take the plane over Sungari
Qin Shang sat in a coh the view port as the golden pyrarew on the horizon The afternoon sun's rays flashed off the gold galvanized walls with blinding intensity, causing the precise effect Qin Shang had demanded from his architects and construction company