“I am!”
“I choose you,” said Jason, nodding his... “I am!”
“I choose you,” said Jason, nodding his head at the shorter first guard, handing him the reel“Go
down on the border of that path and wherever you can, string this line across it, tying it to limbs or
trunks or the strongest branches you can findYou mustn’t be seen, so be alert, see in the dark
“Is no problem, mon!”
“Have you got a knife?”
“Do I have eyes?”
“GoodHurry!”
The guard scrambled away along the vine-tangled precipice and disappeared into the dense
foliage beyondThe second Royal Commando spoke“In truth, sir, I am much faster, for my legs
are much longer
“Which is why I chose him and I suspect you know itLong legs are no advantage here, only an
impediment, which I happen to knowAlso, he’s much shorter and less likely to be spotted
“The smaller ones always get the better assignmentsThey parade us up front and put us in
boxing rings with rules we don’t understand, but the small soldiers get
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“ ‘Plumbies’? The better jobs?”
“Yes, sir
“The most dangerous jobs?”
“Yes, mon!”
“Live with it, big fella
“What do we do now, sir?”
Bourne looked above at the wall and the soft wash of colored lights“It’s called the waiting
game—no love songs implied, only the hatred that comes from wanting to live when others want to
kill youThere’s nothing quite like it because you can’t do anythingAll you can do is think about
what the enemy may or may not be doing, and whether he’s thought of something you haven’t
consideredAs somebody once said, I’d rather be in Philadelphia
“Where, mon?”
“Nothing
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Suddenly, filling the air above in chilling horror, came a prolonged excruciating scream,
followed by words shrieked in pain“Non, non! Vous êtes monstrueux! Arrêtez, arrêtez, je vous
supplie!”
“Now!” cried Jason, slinging the strap of his Uzi over his shoulder as he
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gripping the edge, pulling himself up as the blood poured out of his neckHe could not get up! He
could not get over! Then strong hands pulled him and he fell over the top of the wall“The lights!”
he shouted“Shoot them out!”
The tall commando’s Uzi blazing, the lines of floodlights exploded in the ground on both sides
of the chapel’s pathAgain, strong black hands pulled him to his feet in the new darknessAnd then
a single shaft of yellow appeared, roving swiftly in all directions; it was a powerful halogen
flashlight in the commando’s left handThe figure of a blood-drenched old man in a tan gabardine
suit lay curled up in the path, his throat slit
“Stop! In the name of almighty God, stop where you are!” came Fontaine’s voice from inside
the chapel, the open half door revealing the flickering light of the electric candlesThey approached
the entrance, automatic weapons leveled, prepared for
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they sawBourne closed his eyes, the sight was too painfulOld Fontaine, like young Ishmael, was
sprawled over the lectern on the raised platform beneath the blown-out, stained-glass windows of
the left wall, his face running with blood where he had been slashed, and attached to his body were
thin cables that led to various black boxes on both sides of the chapel
“Go back!” screamed Fontaine“Run, you fools! I’m wired—”
“Oh, Christ!”
“Mourn not for me, Monsieur le CaméléonI gladly join my woman! This world is too ugly
even for meIt is no longer amusingRun! The charge will go off—they are watching!”
“You, mon! Now!” roared the second commando, grabbing Jason’s jacket and racing him to the
wall, holding Bourne in his arms as they plummeted over the stone surface into the thick foliage
The explosion was massive, blinding and deafeningIt was as if this small corner of the
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island had been taken out by a heat-seeking nuclear missileFlames erupted into the night sky, but
the burning mass was quickly diffused in the still wind to fiery rubble
“The path!” shouted Jason, in a hoarse whisper, as he crawled to his feet in the sloping brush
“Get to the path!”
“You’re in bad condition, mon—”
“I’ll take care of me, you take care of you!”
“I believe I’ve taken care of both of us
“So you’ve got a fucking medal and I’ll add a lot of money to itNow, get us up to the path!”
Pulling, pushing, and finally with Bourne’s feet grinding like a machine out of control, the two
men reached the border of the path thirty feet behind the smoldering ruins of the chapelThey crept
into the weeds and within seconds the first commando found them“They’re in the south palms,”
he said breathlessly“They wait until the smoke has cleared to see if anyone is alive, but they
cannot stay long
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