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.And, of course, after I finish this drink and probably another.Ialways need a little liquid courage in order to fly with you at the wheel.He turned a chair around and sat in it backward, facing the monitor. You may proceed, Brother Davidson, Delchamps said. And speak slowly and usePage 246ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlitsy-bitsy words, as Two-Gun will also be watching, and I don t want to haveto explain everything all over again to him.XIV[ONE]Jet-Stream AviationJorge Newbery International AirportBuenos Aires, Argentina1735 12 September 2005Corporal Lester Bradley was in the copilot seat of the Aero Commander, holdingCastillo s laptop, with which Castillo was going to navigate their route toMontevideo.Edgar Delchamps and David Yung sat behind them, trying with littlesuccess to get Max to move to the area behind their seats. We re up, sir, Bradley announced.Castillo looked at the laptop screen.There was a representation of anautomobile Casey s programmers had yet to add the option of an aircrafticon sitting just off the single main runway of the downtown airport. You guys ready? Castillo asked over his shoulder as he reached for the mainbuss switch. Don t wind it up just yet, Ace, Delchamps said. Daddy has a confession tomake.Castillo turned to look at him. Oh, really? Oh, really.And my shame and humiliation is tempered only by the fact thatyou once you hear it are going to have to abjectly apologize for all theunkind things you have been saying about the FBI. Time will tell, Edgar, Castillo said. You can listen to this, Lester, Delchamps went on,  even though it willprobably shatter the childlike faith you have in me.And with the caveat, ofcourse, that once you hear this, I shall probably have to kill you to keep youfrom spreading this among your friends. And you are going to make this confession in the next fifteen minutes or so,right? Castillo said. This is very difficult for me, Ace.I seldom make errors of this magnitude.The last time was in 1986, when I erroneously concluded I had made an error.Bradley giggled. Don t encourage him, for God s sake, Lester, Castillo said. We ll never getto Montevideo. My mistake this time was in thinking I had conned Milton Weiss, when theopposite is true, Delchamps said.He s serious now.This is no joke. That whole scenario about how he and Crawford plan to seize cruise ships ispure bullshit, Delchamps said. And I not only swallowed it hook, line, andsinker, but encouraged you to do the same.Mea culpa, Ace. How do you know? Castillo asked. Inspector John J.Doherty of the blessed Federal Bureau of Investigation,those wonderful checkers of fact, told Two-Gun, Delchamps said. BeforeTwo-Gun could come from Shangri-La to tell me, Doherty damn his black Irishheart got on the Gee-Whiz radio himself to break the news to me as gently as amother telling her child,  Sorry, there really is no Santa Claus. He actuallywas embarrassed to have to tell me what a spectacular ass I d made of myself. You are going to give us the details, right? Castillo said, softly. Not yet.Not until you say something really nice to Two-Gun, who turned overthe rock, so to speak. Okay, Castillo said, and turned to Yung.  Something nice, Two-Gun.Now,what damn rock did you turn over?Yung shrugged. There was something about that ship-seizure plot that smelled,Colonel, he said. So I got on the radio to Inspector Doherty, went over allthe details we knew of it, then asked him what he thought.It smelled to him,too, so he checked it out.He called me back and said it doesn t work thatway.There are fines for companies whose ships do something illegal likePage 247ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlmoving drugs.But it s not like what the cops can do seize a car, then havethe bad guys go to court and try to get their car back.Delchamps picked up the story:  According to Doherty, the only way thesepeople could lose their ship is if after a trial actually, a hearing there isa fine and they don t pay it.Then the ship could theoretically be sold atauction to pay the fine [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]