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┬╗Son, your qualms are understandable,┬л Hamilton said. ┬╗Or-
dinarily weтАЩd have already enlightened you, but I fear a certain
restraint was and is called for in this situation.┬л
┬╗RestraintтАЩs my middle name.┬л
┬╗So Martin has told me. And Bennett, as well.┬л Little mon-
goose glared at me with beady blue eyes. ┬╗All the same your
talents are such that weтАЩre willing to make allowances for your,
uh, personal style.┬л
┬╗I appreciate your appreciation,┬л I said. ┬╗Need more than
that, though.┬л
┬╗In the fullness of time youтАЩll be provided with all necessary
information.┬л
┬╗TimeтАЩs filled up. Spill or IтАЩm walking.┬л
┬╗Walter!┬л Martin looked ready to come down hard, but I
fired back my own daggers and he eased off on playing up the
Great White Father bit. Hamilton didnтАЩt look any more or less
upset than he had when IтАЩd said no, two days earlier. There was
something about this I hadnтАЩt liked from the start. Since I wasnтАЩt
officially on the payroll, and wouldnтАЩt have been one of MartinтАЩs
Bennetts even if I had been, I wasnтАЩt covered with the kind of
insurance you have to have when you get too far out in the
jungle.
┬╗Hear Hamilton out, Walter,┬л Martin said. ┬╗ItтАЩs a very simple
proposition. Once you have all the details IтАЩm sure youтАЩll change
your mind.┬л
┬╗OK, so letтАЩs play catch. You going to tell me, or am I going
to have to guess?┬л Our waiter slunk back to top off the percola-
tions, but I shooed him away.
┬╗I always appreciate forthrightness.┬л HamiltonтАЩs eyebrows
hopped like caterpillars doing a mating dance. ┬╗What would
you guess, if you guessed?┬л
┬╗This have anything to do with pharmaceuticals?┬л I asked.
┬╗ThatтАЩs to be decided.┬л
┬╗Will I be playing the old sucker game?┬л
┬╗Could be.┬л
┬╗Sowing the seeds of disarray?┬л
Hamilton dipped a shard of toast into a pool of yolk. ┬╗Do
you read the newspaper, son?┬л he asked, leaning over so far I
could count his fillings.
┬╗How else do I know what IтАЩve been up to?┬л
Hamilton hooted. Hmnf hmnf hmnf, said Frye. They were in
on somebodyтАЩs joke, that was for sure. ┬╗Surely an intelligent
man such as yourself,┬л said the Grand Codger, ┬╗understands
that at moments sotto voce is preferable to fortissimo. You
understand the broader problems with which we constantly
grapple тАУ┬л
┬╗We who?┬л I asked.
┬╗Is that a question, Walter?┬л
┬╗Who are you, anyway?┬л I asked. ┬╗CanтАЩt quite put my finger
on it.┬л