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Sally just s friends now--and walked back to James’s room

He would live As to all the rest of it, well, she just wasn’t going to think about it until she had to

Life was all in your perspective, she’d decided during that helicopter ride to Portland, Ja on that stretcher beside her, tubes sticking out of hi to keep her perspective on James’s face A nice face, a sexy face She couldn’t wait for hio to the Bonhomie Club and he could play his saxophone

The next ht him The headline was:

AMORY ST JOHN KILLED WHILE FLEEING FBI

Like he didn’t deserve it, he thought "Yeah, poor bugger," he said aloud, and read on Evidently Amory St John had tried to run, but he hadn’t e truck, knocked out the driver, and driven off, the FBI right behind hih to fire on the agents, refusing orders to stop and thron his weapon

He was dead The bastard was finally dead Sally wouldn’t have to go through a trial She wouldn’t ever have to face hionian hadn’t knohich headline to splash--The Coveprint the day before, he supposed they decided it was Amory’s turn

Aes, both with regard to A she had no idea as going on in either case She was an artist, she maintained She helped sell the World’s Greatest Ice Cream That was all she did

Wait until the ht That would nail her hide but good All of the seniors’ hides He was tired, his chest hurt real bad, and so he pumped a small dose oflike a baby, his mind free of all this crap He just wished he could see Sally before he went under again

When she appeared at his bedside, s

"You look like an angel"

He heard a laugh and felt her mouth on his, all warm and soft

"Nice," he said "More"

"Go to sleep, buster," she said "I’ll be here when you wake up"

"Every ue

SALLY ST JOHN Brainerd and James Railey Quinlan were married on the date Dillon Savich had set for them--October 14 Dillon Savich was Quinlan’s best man and Sally’s hter’s wedding with Senator Matt Montgomery from Iowa, a ho’d taken one look at Noelle and fallen hard She had worn a two-piece bathing suit that su two special agents from the Portland field office, one of thee Every Railey and Quinlan within striking distance arrived at the Elton, DC Sally was simply enfolded into her new family

Ms Lilly, Marvin the Bouncer, and Fuzz the Bartender were in attendance, Ms Lilly wearing white satin and Marvin announcing to everyone that the chicky looked gorgeous in her wedding dress Fuzz brought a bottle of Chardonnay for a wedding present It had a cork

The , which was expected since the trial of Dr Beadermeyer--aka Norman Lipsy--had ended just the previous week and Sally had been one of the uilty of conspiracy, , extortion, and income tax evasion, which, a TV news anchorwoes and would keep him in jail until the twenty-second century

Scott Brainerd had plea-bargained to a charge of kidnapping and conspiracy, which the governreed to, since the Feds could find no solid proof of his activity in ar He was sentenced to ten years in jail But Sally knew, she told Quinlan, that Scott would have the best behavior in the entire prison system She’d just bet the little ould be out in three years, curse hiether and said he couldn’t wait

In the previous June, Sally had becoun showing Quinlan a glitzy Washington, DC, that was sleazy in a very different way froton wasevery day, usually with Jaain