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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    3:16 am
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    @@@@@Cummings had left him alone, and he would return the complimentHe stood up in shallow water, and shook his head to clear his earsIt was good swimming, damn goodHe did a somersault underwater and then struck out with a steady stroke parallel to the shoreConn was probably still beating his gums, still elaborating the myth that had become the man

    "Wakara, what does umareru mean?" Dove asked
    Lieutenant Wakara extended his slim legs, and wiggled his toes thoughtfully"Why, it means, 'to be born,' I think
    Dove squinted along the beach, and watched Hearn swimming for a moment"Oh, sure, umareru -- to be bornUmashi masu, u umashoThose are the basic verb forms, aren't they? I remember that He turned to Conn and said, "I don't know what I'd do without WakaraIt takes a Jap to figure out the damn language And he clapped Wakara on the back, and added, "Hey, Tom, am I right?"
    Wakara nodded slowlyHe was a short thin man with a quiet sensitive face, rather dull eyes, and a thin neat mustache"Good old Wakara," Dove saidWakara continued to look at his legsAbout a week before, he had overheard Dove saying to some officer, "You know our Jap translators are overratedI do all the work in our unit, of course I'm in charge, but Wakara isn't much help at allI'm always having to correct his translations
    Now Dove was massaging his bony chest with a towel he had brought along"Feels wonderful to get a sweat up in the sun," he muttered, and then turned to Wakara again"I should have known that word, you know it's that diary we picked off that Jap major's corpse, fascinating document, did you have a look at it?"
    "Not yet
    "Oh, well, it's wonderful
    2:35 am
    @@@@@On the other side, to his left, were some
    @@@@@On the other side, to his left, were some steep, almost precipitous hills which rose abruptly into the Watamai RangeThe channel through the mountains was about two hundred yards wide, an ascending avenue lined by tall buildingsIt was uneven with rolls and dips, great boulders and slattern mounds of earth, pocked here and there in the rock crevices with spates of foliage like the weeds that grow from the cracks in concreteThe moonlight was clearing the invisible peak of Mount Anaka, lancing downward into the pass and dappling the rocks and knolls with shadowsIt was all very bare, very cold; Martinez felt a thousand miles from the stifling velvet night of the jungleHe moved out from the protection of the grove, advanced a few hundred feet and knelt in the shadow of a boulderBehind him, near the horizon, he could see the Southern Cross, and instinctively he noted its directionThe pass ran due north
    Slowly, reluctantly, he moved up through the defile, proceeding cautiously along the rocky littered floor of the passAfter a few hundred yards the pass bore to the left and then to the right again, narrowing considerablyIn places the shadow of the mountain covered the corridor almost completelyHe progressed at an uneven pace, loping forward almost recklessly for many yards at a time and then pausing fearfully for seconds which elapsed into minutes while he lashed himself to advance againEvery insect, every tiny animal he roused in its burrow startled him, unmanned him with the noise of its movementHe played a continual deception with himself, deciding to go on only to the next bend in the pass, and when he had reached it and the ground traversed had been harmless, he would pick another objective and proceed on to itIn this way he covered perhaps a little over a mile in less than an hour, climbing upward almost all the timeHe began to wonder how long the pass might be; despite his experience he was teasing himself with the old trick of imagining that each crest before him was the final one and beyond would be the jungle, the rear of the Japanese lines, and the sea
    As time passed without incident, as more and more of the pass was set behind him, he grew more confident, more impatientHis halts became less frequent, the distance he would traverse each time became greaterAt one point the pass was overgrown with tall kunai grass for a quarter of a mile, and he plodded through it confidently, knowing he could not be observed
    Until now there had been no place where the Japanese could have established an outpost, and his caution, the elaborate observation he made, had been more from terror, more from the unassailable silence of the mountain and the pass, than from any suspicion of an enemy siteBut the terrain was changingThe foliage had become thicker and covered more area; in several places it was extensive enough to conceal a small bivouacHe scouted them cursorily, entering the little groves in the shadow, moving in a few yards, and then waiting for several minutes to see if he could hear the inevitable sounds of men sleepingWhen nothing moved but the leaves and birds and animals, he would stalk out and continue his advance up the pass
    At a turn it narrowed again; the opposing cliff walls were not more than fifty yards apart here, and in several places along the route the defile was blocked by a patch of jungle
    2:12 am
    @@@@@Cummings had left him alone, and he would
    @@@@@Cummings had left him alone, and he would return the complimentHe stood up in shallow water, and shook his head to clear his earsIt was good swimming, damn goodHe did a somersault underwater and then struck out with a steady stroke parallel to the shoreConn was probably still beating his gums, still elaborating the myth that had become the man

    "Wakara, what does umareru mean?" Dove asked
    Lieutenant Wakara extended his slim legs, and wiggled his toes thoughtfully"Why, it means, 'to be born,' I think
    Dove squinted along the beach, and watched Hearn swimming for a moment"Oh, sure, umareru -- to be bornUmashi masu, u umashoThose are the basic verb forms, aren't they? I remember that He turned to Conn and said, "I don't know what I'd do without WakaraIt takes a Jap to figure out the damn language And he clapped Wakara on the back, and added, "Hey, Tom, am I right?"
    Wakara nodded slowlyHe was a short thin man with a quiet sensitive face, rather dull eyes, and a thin neat mustache"Good old Wakara," Dove saidWakara continued to look at his legsAbout a week before, he had overheard Dove saying to some officer, "You know our Jap translators are overratedI do all the work in our unit, of course I'm in charge, but Wakara isn't much help at allI'm always having to correct his translations
    Now Dove was massaging his bony chest with a towel he had brought along"Feels wonderful to get a sweat up in the sun," he muttered, and then turned to Wakara again"I should have known that word, you know it's that diary we picked off that Jap major's corpse, fascinating document, did you have a look at it?"
    "Not yet
    "Oh, well, it's wonderful
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    She could feel Kathleen hoveringWhy didn't the silly girl just go
    away and let her sleep? "What do you want, Kathleen?"
    "Begging your pardon, Scarlett, I wondered if you'd be getting
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    She felt as if she could sleep forever-if people would let her"All
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    fussing is driving me crazy"That's fine," she said when the last
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    "No I'd really like coffee, Scarlett thoughtMaybe I
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    @@@@@ "Pansy!" she called from the doorway"I want
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    "Pansy!" she called from the doorway"I want you to wash my hair
    Scarlett was trembling from head to toe, but she made her legs carry
    her to the staircase and climb the long flight of stairs"My skin
    must be like corduroy," she said aloud, concentrating her mind away
    from the cravings of her body"I'll need to use quarts of rosewater
    and glycerineAnd I have to get all new clothesMarie can
    hire extra sewing help J'c It shouldn't take more than a few weeks
    to get over her weakness and get back to looking her bestShe
    wouldn't let itShe had to be strong and beautiful, and she had no
    time to wasteShe'd lost too much of it already
    Rhett hadn't come back to her, so she'd have to go to himher mind was made up, Scarlett's life changed radically
    She had a goal, now, and all her energy poured into achieving it
    She'd think later about exactly how she was going to get Rhett back,
    after she arrived in CharlestonFor now, she had to get ready to
    goMarie threw up her hands and declared it impossible to make a
    complete new wardrobe in only a few weeks; Uncle Henry Hamilton
    put
    his fingertips together and expressed his disapproval when Scarlett
    told
    him what she needed him to doTheir opposition made Scarlett's eyes
    gleam with the joy of battle, and in the end she wonBy the
    beginning
    of November Uncle Henry had taken over the financial management of
    the
    store and saloon with a guarantee that the money would go to Joe
    ColletonAnd Scarlett's bedroom was a chaos of color and laces-her
    new clothes laid out to be packed for the tripShe was still thin,
    and there were faint bruise-like shadows under her eyes, because the
    nights had been torments of sleeplessness and fierce efforts of will to
    resist the rest promised by the decanter of brandyBut she had won
    that battle, too, and her normal appetite for food had returnedHer
    face was already filled out enough so that a dimple flickered when she
    smiled, and her bosom was enticingly plumpWith a skillful
    application of rouge on her lips and cheeks, ú she looked almost like a
    girl again, she was sure* Goodbye, Atlanta,
    Scarlett said silently when the train pulled out of the station
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    She'd had no idea, no matter what she thought she'd discerned from KathyShe'd thought
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    219
    That was how I met Wireman
    iii
    Twenty minutes later the table had been placed in
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    That was all very well, but neither of us could
    look at the umbrella without breaking into fits of
    the gigglesOne of its pie-wedges was torn, and
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    Wireman had offered to replace the spilled pitcher
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    220
    "Nope, from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert
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    as he sat in his striped chair, but I didn't
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    He began to laugh againHe covered his mouth with
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    I also snickeredMy hip hurt and my stomachmuscles
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    "'Alabama Getaway,'" I said
    221
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:35 am
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    @@@@@They'll ask questions His eyes widened and
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    His eyes widened and then narrowed“Maybe you should have thought of this before I snuck
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    “We're not going back without medicine for Jamie My voice was harder than his
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    CHAPTER 44
    Healed
    Wanda…”
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    the passenger seat and closed my eyes
    Jared was holding the rough fist-sized stone I'd foundHe'd been weighing it in his hand for
    five minutes
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:35 am
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    new
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    My phone began to ringI went back in, still
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    paintings to-"
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    it was already workingWe talked for twenty
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    see em," and the police representative who called
    Pam didn't think to tell her what Mary Ire had
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    nonstop," Pam said dully"She never could have
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    do it? Was it another fucking painting?"
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    worried about
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    iii
    Wireman led me through the back door, across a dim
    kitchen with large white service islands and an
    enormous Westinghouse stove, then into the
    whispering interior of the house, which shone with
    dark woods - oak, walnut, teak, redwood, cypress
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    We passed one book-lined room with an actual suit
    of armor brooding in the cornerThe library
    connected with a study where paintings - not
    stodgy oil portraits but chloe black bright abstract things,
    even a couple of op-art eye-poppers - hung on the
    walls
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    Light showered down on us like white rain as we
    walked the main hall (Wireman walked; I limped),
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    grandeur, this part of it was no more than a
    glorified dogtrot - the kind that separates
    sections of older and much humbler Florida
    dwellingsThat style, almost always constructed
    of wood (sometimes scrapwood) rather than stone,
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    its far end, Wireman hung a rightI followed him
    into an enormous cool parlorA row of windows
    gave on a side courtyard filled with flowers - my
    daughters could have named half of them, Pam all
    of them, but I could only name the asters,
    dayflowers, elderberry, and foxgloveOh, and the
    rhododendronThere was plenty of thatBeyond the
    tangle, on a blue-tiled walk that presumably
    connected with the main courtyard, stalked a
    sharp-eyed heronIt looked both thoughtful and
    grim, but I never saw a one on the ground that
    didn't look like a Puritan elder considering pasha cartier watch which
    witch to burn next
    259
    In the center of the room was the woman Ilse and I
    had seen on the day we tried exploring Duma Key
    RoadThen she'd been in a wheelchair, her feet
    clad in blue Hi-TopsToday she was standing with
    her hands planted on the grips of a walker, and
    her feet - large and very pale - were bareShe
    was dressed in a high-waisted pair of beige slacks
    and a dark brown silk blouse with amusingly wide
    shoulders and full sleevesIt was an outfit that
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    old, even when she was old
    The room was dominated by a long, low table of the
    sort my father had had in the cellar for his
    electric trains, only this one was covered in some
    light wood - it looked like bamboo - rather than
    fake grassIt was crowded with model buildings
    and china figurines: men, women, children,
    barnyard animals, zoo animals, creatures of
    mythical renownSpeaking of mythical creatures, I
    saw a couple of fellows in blackface that wouldn't
    have passed muster with the rolex ladies watch N-double-A-C
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    Edmund looked pleased, which must be Fanny’s comfort, and the
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    successful scheme of this sort generally brings on another; and the
    having been to Mansfield Common disposed them all for going
    somewhere else the day afterThere were many other views to be
    shewn; and though the weather was hot, there were shady lanes
    wherever they wanted to goA young party is always provided with
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    to be talked of with pleasure—till the fourth day, when the happiness
    of one of the party was exceedingly cloudedMiss Bertram was
    the oneEdmund and Julia were invited to dine at the Parsonage,
    and she was excludedIt was meant and done by MrsGrant, with
    perfect good-humour, on MrRushworth’s account, who was partly
    expected at the Park that day; but it was felt as a very grievous injury,
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    and hermes kelly bag anger till she reached homeRushworth did not
    come, the injury was increased, and she had not even the relief of
    shewing her power over him; she could only be sullen to her mother,
    aunt, and cousin, and throw as great a gloom as possible over their
    dinner and dessert
    Between ten and eleven Edmund and Julia walked into the drawing-
    room, fresh with the evening air, glowing and cheerful, the very
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    Mansfield Park
    reverse of what they found in the three ladies sitting there, for Maria
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    half-asleep; and even MrsNorris, discomposed by her niece’s illhumour,
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    eager in their praise of the night and their remarks on the stars, to
    think beyond themselves; but when the first pause came, Edmund,
    looking around, said, “But where is Fanny? Is she gone to bed?”
    “No, not that I know of,” replied MrsNorris; “she was here a
    moment ago
    Her own gentle voice speaking from the other end of the room,
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    Norris began scolding
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    Before half this was said, Fanny was returned to her seat at the
    table, and had taken up her work again; and Julia, who was in high
    good-humour, from the pleasures of the day, did her the justice of
    exclaiming, “I must say, ma’am, that Fanny is as little upon the sofa
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