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Show 114 "I'll be damned." Ths Major sat for a moment, tha dental ablutions the only sound. Than ha swung around. "What's he want a gook for?" "A fine girl, sir." "Mebbs so. Wish she'd kept her hand out of tha cigarstts tray." Ha brooded a moment. "When are you making out the papers?" "Right now, if it's all right with you." "Why should I care? No skin off my ass. Hats to see a good man go, but if he don't appreciate the Fuji-en - " A couple of hours a^tar, in the alation of the moment, Koontz took Kimiko to the PX to show har off. The Detachmants wars too small to warrant a service club, and even the PX openad only for an hour at noon, but that hour of casual comradery made it the social canter, the pub, the sidewalk cafe. There gossip was manufactured and bartered, rumors planted and harvested, promotions announced and congratulatsd on, not infrequsntly with smiling eyes and forkad tongue. And Koontz, aware of the momentousness of ths change awaiting Kimiko, decided to broach the issue boldly, carry her to the PX and, by appsarance if not by words, maka ths altsration known. Thsy arrivsd soms twsnty minutss aftsr Corporal Biggs, had thrown opsn tha doors. The men had time to sattla in, but had not yst A |