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"I didn't see it. I heard the Chief Proctor say so. Correction:
I heard a man who sounded like Franco, and the Manager treated him as
such."
"Good enough. Hear hoofbeats; expect horses, not zebras. But I heard
nothing about it on my way here, and I noticed no signs of excitement in this
restaurant-and the assassination or attempted assassination of the second
largest holder of partnership shares in this sovereignty should cause
excitement. I was at the bar for a few minutes before you arrived. No word of
it. Yet a bar is notoriously the place news hits first; there is always a screen
turned on to the news channel. Hmm... could the Manager be covering it up?"
'That lying snake is capable of anything."
"I was not speaking of his moral character, concerning which my judgment
matches yours, but solely of physical possibility. One does not cover up a
shooting too easily. Blood. Noise. A victim dead or wounded. And you spoke of
witnesses-or Franco did. Still, Judge Sethos controls the only newspaper, and
the terminals, and the proctors. Yes, if he wished to make the effort, he could
surely keep it hush-hush for a considerable period. We shall see-and that is one
more item on which I will report to you after you reach Luna City."
"We may not be in Luna City. I'll have to phone you."
"Colonel, is that advisable? Unless our presence together during that few
seconds at the bar here was noted by some interested party who knows both of us,
it is possible that we have succeeded in keeping our alliance secret
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