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Saed “Let’s spruce up and join the festivities”

CHAPTER 38

You’re serious, aren’t you?”

“Don’t I look serious?”

“Yes That’s orries me”

“Why?”

“Because it’s nuts, that’s why”

“There’s a fine line between nuts and ingenious”

“And an even finer line between ingenuity and idiocy”

Sauards at the party, did you?”

“No”

“Whichpeople out; the guests have all been vetted and probably frisked There were sixty or seventy people out there and I didn’t see anyone checking invitations You know the rule: ‘Look like you belong and you belong’ ”

“That sounds o-ism than a rule”

“I like to think they’re one and the same”

“I know you do”