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Burton-Angus stopped and looked up at the televised departure schedules "Your plane is on tie It's been taken care of"

"I assumed as much"

"Well I guess what it came down to was your past record of ahshall we say, successful dealings with ht it an asset Of course, the fact that Coan recently had an intie rolled the dice in your favor"

Shaw gave hiot to look forward to someday, laddy"

"Nothing personal" Burton-Angus smiled wanly "You say you've been in the service six years?"

"And four months, to be more precise"

"Did they teach you how to detect a surveillance blind?"

Burton-Angus' eyes narrowed questioningly "The class was mandatory Why do you ask?"

"Because you flunked," Shaw said He let it sink in a moment and then tilted his head to the left "Theinnocently at his watch He's been glued to us since we left the customs exit Also, the stewardess in the Pan American uniform about twenty feet behind Her airline is on another concourse She's his backup They'll have a third eye lurking ahead of us I haven't fixed him yet"

Burton-Angus visibly paled "Not possible," he muttered "They can't be on to us"

Shaw turned and showed his ticket and passed it to the girl at the boarding entrance Then he refaced the lieutenant

"It would seem," he said in his best sardonic voice, "that the British have few secrets from the Americans"

He left Burton-Angus standing there looking like a drowning man

Shaw sat back in his seat, relaxed, and felt in the ht hilasses The labels said California He would have preferred a Tattinger, brut reserve vintage California bubbly and plastic glasses, he mused Would the Americans ever become civilized?

After he had polished off one bottle, he took stock The CIA had put the finger on hiland, just as he knew General Simms knew they would