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common numeral sprang out in green letters on the screen
Conklin picked up the Langley phone, dialed the night watch, and told the CIA operator to trace itIt?s one of three numbers for the same residence in Boston, MassachusettsThe residence is??
?Never mind, Operator,? interrupted Alex, knowing that he had been given the essential
informationRandolph Gates, scholar, attorney for the privileged, advocate of the bigger the better,
the biggest the bestHow right that Gates should be involved with amassing hundreds of millions in
Europe controlled by American interestsIt wasn?t right at all, it was wrong!
It was completely illogical for the scholarly attorney to have any connection whatsoever to a highly
questionable, indeed illegal, operation like MedusaIt did not make sense! One did not have to
admire the celebrated legal giant to grant him just about the cleanest record for propriety in the Bar
Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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AssociationHe was a notorious stickler for the cartier swiss watches most minute points of law, often using those
minutiae of his craft to obtain favorable decisions, but no one ever dared question his integritySo
unpopular were his legal and philosophical opinions to the brightest lawyers in the liberal
establishment that he would have been gleefully discredited years ago at the slightest hint of
impropriety
Yet here was his name appearing six times in the appointments calendar of a Medusan
responsible for untold millions in the nation?s defense expendituresAn unstable Medusan whose
apparent suicide was in fact murder
Conklin looked at the screen, at the date of Swayne?s last entry referring to RIt was on
August second, barely a week agoHe picked up the leather-bound diary and turned to the dayHe
had been concentrating on names, not comments, unless the information struck him as relevant?to
what he was not sure, but he was trusting to instinctIf he had known up front who Rwas, the
abbreviated handwritten notation beside the last entry would have cheap chanel bags online caught his eye
RG will nt cnsider app?t fr MajTwo file out
and bur?d
The Paris should have alerted him, thought Alex, but Swayne?s notes throughout were filled
with foreign or exotic names and places as if the general had been trying to impress whoever might
read his personal observationsAlso, Conklin regretfully considered, he was terribly tired; were it
not for his computer he probably would not have centered in on DrRandolph Gates, legal
OlympianTwo file out and bur?d
The first part was obvious, the second obscure but hardly concealedThe ?Two? referred to the
army?s intelligence arm, G-2, and the ?file? was just that, an event or a revelation uncovered by
intelligence personnel in Paris?7 yrs ago and removed from the data banksIt was an amateur?s
attempt to use intelligence gibberish by misusing it?Unlock? meant ?key??Jesus, Swayne was an
idiot! Using his notepad, Alex wrote out the notation as he knew it to be:
?Randolph Gates will not consider the appointment for a Major Craft or cartier santos 100 xl men watch Croft or even
Christopher, for the f could be an s(But) we need Crft on his staffThe key is to use the
information in our G-2 file about Gates in Paris seven years ago, said file removed and in our
possession
If that was not the exact translation of Swayne?s insertion, it was certainly close enough in
substance to act upon, mused Conklin, turning his wrist and glancing at his watchIt was twenty
past three in the morning, a time when even the most disciplined person would be shaken by the
shrill bell of a telephoneWhy not? David?Jason?was rightEvery hour counted nowAlex
picked up the phone and touched the numbers for Boston, Massachusetts
The telephone kept ringing and the bitch would not pick it up in her room! Then Gates looked at
the lighted square and the blood drained from his headIt was his unlisted number, a number that
was restricted to a very fewHe thrashed wildly in the bed, his eyes wide; the strange call from
Paris unnerved him the more he thought about itIt concerned tiffany |
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