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"Right as rain But-"

"The last thing he wants to see is aHe wants s, and if I was all alone Ifor the ride, and that ht hear fro it"

"You think I’d tell him?"

"I don’t even trust myself, Bowman cat"

"A sound policy You never said Sheena was part of the assignment"

"You never asked"

"Yeah, well What’s so is the Chief keeps under that crazy plaid hat he alears"

"That nutty old hat"

"You know it,questions I just follow orders Saves a lot of heartache when it’s tier lovedifference between love and the milk of human kindness"

"Would you overfloith this milk if she were not beautiful?"

"Oh, don’t be silly, Pluh that we are encumbered with him My bottom is sore from pinches I do not think I can endure veryhands off"

"Well, he is not I believe it was a mistake to take the stain out of my hair and skin I believe it is my color that has this effect upon him Evan?"

"What?"

"Can we not put her overboard?"

"Plu very foolish about this She was a ten-year-old girl, a child And that personality is all locked up inside her just waiting to be brought to the surface"

"I have not seen it When she is awake she does nothing but call down the wrath of the Lord upon us"

"She’s being Sheena now When she’s Jane-"

"I have never seen her be Jane"

"Well, she only does it after an experience that moves her very deeply"

"I believe I know the sort of experience you ht"

"Is that what you plan, Evan? You will give her such experiences constantly so that she will remain Jane?"

"Oh, cut it out, will you? Look, there are clinics that can do wonders with personality disorders like this It’s just athe Jane person to the surface"

"And then there will be this beautiful woman with the mind of a ten-year-old"

"Well, most beautiful women have the mind of a ten-year-old"

"Evan-"

"So up"

"No, he sleeps Evan, I was-"

"You’re not paddling right, Plum Try to slip your blade into the water at a little le"

"Like this?"

"That’s a little better"

"But that is hoas doing it I believe you are attee the subject, Evan"

"Why, that’s very perceptive of you, Plum"

"Opium"

"That’s what it is, Tanner cat Fields and fields of it As far as the eye can see Nothing but instant happiness growing up nice and green"

"Miles of opiu monument to the Modonoland Retriever"

"It’s his ht to plant it, this country didn’t have a thing going for it Tons of potential but not a pound of right-now action, you dig? Wasn’t nothin’ Modonoland could produce that soe cheaper and faster and better But when you coot a seller’s rowin’ it"

"There’s the little matter of international law"

"International laws are made to be broken, man Nobody pays any attention to them if they cut you out of a dollar Look, who makes the money out of opium if Modonoland don’t? Nobody but China"

"That’s one way to look at it"

"What’s good for Modonoland-"

"Uh-huh I understand the Glorious Retriever made a few cents himself from the opium"

"That’s the American Way, ain’t it?"

"Don’t be touchy"

"Ain’t bein’ touchy, man Only-"

"My point was that the royal treasure must have come to quite a sum"

"It must have done, I suppose"

"I wonder what happened to the treasure"

"Still back in Griggstown, I reckon"

"I don’t"

"That right?"

"Uh-huh We know Knanda Ndoro got it out A fortune in negotiable paper and cut ge to e heard"

"You heard that"