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Show Acting Alone Page 377 One reason was his personal association with the Senator: a man helps your son, you help his son, if possible with your own two hands. That was the simple, symmetrical way it had been back in the Lake Como region of the foothills of the Italian Alps, where the Elder had been reared among the contadinos and taught his basic morality. And so it was here in the New World, in the foothills of other alpine mountains. Another reason for his personal interest was that the Elder had already seen some of the advance work on the subject, had gotten a little taste of the reputation the youngster was beginning to develop among his colleagues, and had been visited by a suspicion that, put through a rigorous program of physical and emotional . and ideological conditioning, the boy might just turn out to be the person he'd been looking for: the type of youngster required for the special real estate acquisition phase of the main project the Elder was involved in around here - the future erection of the Colorado Springs Temple. Also, when Elder Cicerone first gathered, from what some renegades in the comic little outfit known as the KBI were reporting, that this character was not only a Utah boy, but a former associate of Streckfus - perhaps even Streckfus' corrupter- his narcotics-supplier - why, the whole plan took upon itself that aspect of beautiful symmetry which can only be lent by direct intervention of the Hand of Heavenly Father. God has a fine sense of symmetry, a craftsman, and to Him the world is truly small and synchronicitous. So the Elder had wanted in on this investigation for this third reason: in its context he'd witnessed auspicious portents that cried out to be explored. But he had also decided to help gather a little extra material on the |