ONE WAY

"I believe very little of what I hear," Thomas admitted. "But, I believe in working together anyway, so I brought along hard copy of the papers I didn't send, especially for you. Talking about papers, deductive reasoning leads me to figure that you might have some papers from Florida that I'm looking for, like Wakeem's for example."

"I have them, but not with me." Brian chatted a bit about Wakeem's papers. He promised to send Thomas copies after returning to his Eugene office.

"Hey, Steven," Thomas called cheerfully to the General who was seated some twenty feet distant.

"Keep him out of my face," The General whispered menacingly.