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Show the very dead! "And thou," snapped Chu, distaste dripping from her voice, "what didst thou with the Governor?" The small man turned his glittering eyes upon her. "Naught as well," he spat, "the devil take this errant clown!" "Couldst thou not reach the cable, knave?" "Nay, woman! I could get nowhere near the cable!" The enormity of this failure filled the man with fury and he pulled Phrapp's arm higher to assuage it. "Aaaiiiieeee!" cried Phrapp. "Avaunt!" hissed Chu at her colleague. "Thou wilt have the posse down on our cursed heads!" "But for this unmentionable excrementi, I should have ended the mission full fair! " Chu sat back and considered, focusing her eyes on the opposite side of the room. "If e'en She had let us know sooner concerning the invasion!" she said. "I could have had everything in hardcopy. We could have been ready in full to take charge! Now...now things will be in a fair jumble!" She turned to the smaller man. "And the Governor must needs be down during the invasion-it must needs be down for two Se'enDays at the very least!" "Told ye I ever and often, woman-I must needs have three hours, I must needs return b a c k . . . - " Chu raked him over with a contemptuous glance. "Look ye, I could get nowhere near the cable," the man hissed. "This unmentionable. . ." "Excuses!" Chu hissed back at him. "Pray, where was thy vaunted 162 |
