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Show 162 glance out the window as the train swept toward the glamorous power-center of Tokyo. Surely Oji would be different. Wouldn't she and Franklin enjoy greater prestige? Granted, Taira still lay under the Major's command (having met him at a reception in Kyoto she had sensed at once that he lived in a vastly different world from hers and Franklin's), the fact that it had been upgraded by Tokyo rather than Naka gave it an extra importance. Moreover she and Franklin would take over the Murakamis' house, which stood next to tha Wilsons'; in the interim they would be put up in the guest jhouse. Yes, she looked forward to the move, for Naka's new dispensation would be almost visible in the accommodations: the Major, ^Harriet, k£he WilsonsJ) One, two, three. One event, during this comparatively placid period, offered a variation: in July Sergeant Koontz's papers were approved, and he and Kimiko wera married. Captain Bain performed the service; the Detachments attended, and the couple departed for a week at Noboribetsu. During their absence the transfer arrived (to give the couple a new start the Army often transferred the newly-married) and soon the |