The Kremlin Letter Page #2

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Your file says you're as smart as they come.

But smart don't matter a damn unless

you're quick too. You gotta be both. See?

Yes. Good.

Good.

Nephew, did you ever read

through that file of yours?

No. Well, i don't recommend it.

It might just turn your head.

How many languages is it you

speak without an accent? Seven?

Eight. Hoo-Wee.

Only fault they can find with you

is in the psychiatrist's report.

They speculate about a death wish,

uh, originatin' from your boyhood...

When you saw your mama and papa and

brothers killed in a plane crash.

- What do you say to that, nephew?

- I say it's a lot of rubbish.

I got a different idea about, uh, why

you dove off that cliff in acapulco...

And why you stuck your

neck out so far in korea.

Nephew, they say that...

Heroes can't imagine their own

death, and that's why they're heroes.

You go 'em one better. You

imagine you're immune to violence.

Not only that, but you've taken

the trouble to collect the proof.

Now, which theory do

you go with? Neither one.

Neither one? Well, now, what do you think?

I think i'm a superior combination of

intellect and physique, athlete and scholar.

When a risk is to be run, i

formulate the ideal procedure...

And calculate the chances

involved with exquisite precision.

If the percentages are sufficiently

in my favor, i put myself into motion,

Having absolute confidence in

the performance of my reflexes.

Nephew, the truth is

you are full of yourself.

How much you got there? $480,000.

Right.

30,000.

Keep it.

You've been with the highwayman

a long time. Long enough.

You must have known

sturdevant. Yeah, i knew him.

You didn't like him. He

was a con man and a coward.

He put out more bushwa than

goebbels did in world war ii.

And he built his own legend.

But the fact is highwayman

did most of the work.

He was the real brain. When

do i get to see the highwayman?

You have seen him. Let's go see him again.

Was everything in the suitcase? Yes, sir.

Well, nephew, i hope you're not

adverse to traveling. No. Not at all.

By the by, how are you on tortillas

and frijoles and all that kind of crap?

So i'm going to mexico. Yes, sir. You're

going to mexico to pick up lord ashley's whore.

You're gonna rustle up the

warlock in san francisco...

And then make tracks to

chicago for the erector set.

Tell them the tillinger foundation

is planning an expedition.

I'm sure about the others, but

the whore might not want to come.

He says he's done his last job.

Well, in that case, nephew,

You give him $25,000 in

advance to soften him up.

Now, if that don't work, this will.

Two or three drops of that'll

freeze him for about 24 hours.

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