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.In gold.You are a rich man.Your village is rich.""I am a poor man," snapped Chiun, "for I have no son, no heirs.My village eats, yes.But will their children eat, or their grandchildren, after I am gone and there is none to take my place?"Smith resisted the urge to remind Chiun that the United States government had shipped enough gold to the village of Sinanju to feed its entire population well, for the next millennium.Instead, he said, "I've always understood that a Sinanju contract is unbreakable.And that the word of Sinanju is inviolate."Smith felt strange throwing back Chiun's own arguments at him, but it worked.Chiun was silent for a moment.In his hotel room, Chiun felt something hard under the sleeping robe he had just packed away and reached for it.It was a silken pouch containing the shard of speckled gray rock, the rock of the Master Shang, the rock which Sinanju tradition said Master Shang had taken from the mountains of the moon.Hefting the rock in his hand, Chiun remembered the lesson of Shang and, his voice clear again, he said to Smith, "What would you have me do?""I knew I could count on you, Chiun," said Smith, who knew no such thing."This killer who goes by Remo's name," Smith said."My belief is that he will next attack Lyle Lavallette of Dynacar Industries.""I will go to this carriagemaker.I will protect him.This time there will be no excuses from Sinanju.""Don't just protect him, Chiun.Stay with him.Ask him questions.We still don't know why those auto men are targets for assassination and I don't believe it has anything to do with environmental protests.Maybe there is some common link between them all, other than their business, that you can find out.Anything would be helpful.And if the killer shows up again, take him alive if possible.We've got to know if he's doing this for personal reasons or if he's in someone's employ.""I understand.I will protect the carriagemaker.And I will find out what he knows.Which, of course, is very little because he is a white and an American besides."Smith ignored the remark.He paused a moment, then said, "Would you tell me how Remo died? Do you mind talking about it?""He fell into bad company," Chiun said.Smith waited but the old man spoke no more.Finally, the CURE director cleared his throat and said, "Well, okay, Chiun.Communicate with me as soon as you have something.""I have something now," said Chiun."I have the ingratitude of whites.It is a larger thing than any Master of Sinanju has ever had before."He hung up and at Folcroft, Smith thought that the bitterness Chiun felt toward Remo was strange.He would have thought Chiun would be racked by sorrow, but there was no sign of it.Still, you could never tell about Chiun and Smith forced it out of his mind and turned his attention back to the loose ends surrounding the murder at the grave of Remo Williams.Even at this critical time, in the last few hours that CURE might continue to exist, those loose ends ate away at him.Chapter 21"So what have you been doing all your life, kid?" the gunman asked after the cocktail waitress had brought them drinks.They were in a quiet corner of the best restaurant in Detroit.The lighting was dim and there was a view of the downtown area through the spacious windows.By night, the dirt was forgotten and Detroit looked like a city carved from ebony and set with jewels of light."I've been working for the government," Remo answered after a pause.He felt uncomfortable talking about his work."Come on.You've got to level with your old man.Before, you told me you were in the same line as me," the gunman said.Page 83ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"I am.For the government, sort of.""I get it.Secret stuff, huh?""Right," Remo said."Secret stuff.""Well, tell me about it.And drink up.That's good bourbon.""I can't," Remo said."You can't tell your own father what you've been doing for a living all these years?" the gunman said."I can't tell you that either," Remo said.He pushed the tumbler of brownish fluid away from him
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