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Show 129 "Two we found. Surely you don't think they're all that's sold." His eyes glittered. "Smsad says hs talksd to you, Wilson. Wasn't your maid -- 'middleman'?" The Colonel waited for an answer, but as Sid hesitated he continued. "Hear she was sitting in for her brother, who also work's for the Detachments. Your employees have quite a thing." The Major bridled. "That's not true, sir. They're the ones involved; I'll see they don't do it again." "Let 'em go?" "I'll talk to 'em." "Talk. Sounds liks a girls' school. I never found that much good." A straightsning of ths linss undsr ths syss told Sid ths Major had flushsd. "It doss whsn I givs it." "Action," the Colonel said crisply. "Action. She should be dismissed -- probably the brother too." The Major said nothing. A weighted silence hung about, and Sid looked across to the lights of Shimomura, misting in the distance. "I have no truck," said the Colonel, "with employees I can't trust. If they disobey, out." The Major said nothing. "Agree, Major?" The Major rapped his fist against his leg. "Is that an order, sir?" "Major!" The Colonel's voice was harsh. "Don't try to |