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Show 212 beside the General. "You wouldn't, would you - - take my house away? Pending over, she peered up - piteous anri lovely -- into his face. The General looked down, captivated. "who said anything about that?" "No one directly. Rut the implications --" And she shook her head, as her fingers reached toward his hand. His great paw folded over hsrs. "Whatever rules I change," he said, "won't hurt you." And he tossed his sister the same curt glance he gave a rust-spot on an enlisted man's carbine. Harriet sighed, and sat back. "I hope not. For our house will be yours, too. We want you to come back often, stay with us. It will beyour home, more than Higashi." "Higashi?" He peered out the window, as if the winri-blown promontory was visible. "Higashi" Oh, that." Anri a sudden gust of wind - as unusual in Naka as de rigueur across the bay -- seemed like a snort of high derisive laughter. The General returned to Tokyo the following morning, to prepare for the westward move. All the Engineers were present, but only a handful from Intelligence, though the former seemed to view his departure with more glumness than the situation warranted. He, of course, was happily nonchalant: kissed his sister perfunctorily, saluted his brother-in-law formally, murmured into Harriet's ear something that heightened her already brilliant color. Then he climbed aboard and the train pulled out. |