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"Pretentious bastard"

"Yeah," Dillon said "Letmore to tell you about our doctor First of all, I don’t think many people have this information

"He’s brilliant and unscrupulous Word has it that if you’re rich enough and discreet enough and you want soh, then Beadermeyer will take that person off your hands It’s just ruh to get her sent here? Look, Quinlan, maybe she’s really sick"

"She isn’t sick Who sent her here? I don’t know She never would tell me She never even mentioned Beaderht down, Dillon Yeah, better Who knohat kind of security he has?"

"That I couldn’t find out, but hey, the fence isn’t electrified"

They were both wearing black, including heavily lined black gloves The twelve-foot-high fence was no problerass on the other side

"So far, so good," Quinlan said, keeping the flashlight low andit in a wide arc

"Let’s stay close to the tree line"

The twoout a low beam just in front of them

"Oh, shit," Dillon said

"What? Oh, yeah" Two Ger toward them

"Damn, I don’t want to kill them"

"You won’t have to Just stand still, Dillon"

"What are you going--"

Dillon watched Quinlan pull a plastic-wrapped package froe pieces of raw steak

The dogs ithin twelve feet of the