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.The computer screen flashed: NO FILE FOUND.PRESS: ESCAPE KEY.Smith hit the escape key and brought up Remo's original CURE file."At fifty-five, the man would be the right age.But he couldn't be.Remo is supposed to be an orphan.He has no known living relatives of any description.""Everyone has relatives," said Chiun, thinking of his wicked brother-in-law, now dead."Whether they want them or not.""Remo was an infant when the nuns found him on the doorstep of St.Theresa's Orphanage," said Smith, skimming the Remo file."It's not clear who named him.Perhaps they found a note with the baby or the nuns named him.The records that might have told us-if they ever even existed-were destroyed in a fire years before Remo joined CURE.St.Theresa's is long gone, too.""Remo must never learn of this," Chiun said."Agreed," said Smith, looking away from the file.Sometimes it bothered him to read it.He had done a terrible thing to a young policeman once, and even though it was for a greater purpose, that didn't make it any less of a terrible thing."This man who calls himself Remo Williams is your assignment, Chiun.I expect you will carry it out.""If this man carries the same blood as Remo, then I have as much to lose as you," Chiun said coldly."More." Smith nodded.He knew that Chiun saw Remo as the next Master of Sinanju, the heir of a tradition that went back to before the recording of history.It was one of the great conflicts in the arrangement between Smith and Chiun that each saw Remo as his own.Neither bothered to ask Remo what he thought."Good," said Smith."I have heard from Remo, our Remo, but I have refused to tell him where you are.I will hold him off as long as I can and in the meantime, perhaps you can dispose of this matter.""Consider it done, Emperor," Chiun said."The other two big car men are James Revell and Hubert Millis.They have announced that they will be at Lyle Lavallette's press conference tomorrow.If an attempt is to be made, it might be made there again.""This killer's hours are numbered, O Emperor," said Chiun gravely."You do not know where our Remo is?""He was in Utah.I expect he'll be coming here to find out where you are.I'll try to stall him until I have your assignment-completed call," Smith said."That will be fine," Chiun said and hung up.Smith closed down Remo's file.Chiun would take care of this man who might or might not be Remo's father.And that would be the end of that and Remo would never know.Perhaps it was unjust but what was one more injustice on top of the others? When Remo Williams had become the Destroyer for CURE, he had lost all his rights, both natural and constitutional.Losing a father he never knew he had wouldn't really make much of a difference.Remo Williams, the Destroyer, arrived in Detroit around midnight.After Smith had refused to tell him where Chiun was, Remo had been at a loss Page 42ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmluntil he remembered that Smith had mentioned Detroit.Mentioned it twice, in fact.Smith had thought Remo was calling from Detroit, and why would he have thought that?There was only one good answer: Smith had jumped to the conclusion that Remo was in Detroit because the CURE director knew that Chiun was already in Detroit.That was simple and it annoyed Remo that Smith would not expect him to figure it out.The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he got and when he reached the Detroit airport, he went to the car-rental counter and asked for the most expensive car they had.In his wallet, he found a credit card for Remo Cochran."I'm sorry, sir, but all our cars are the same rate," the clerk told him."Okay," Remo said."Then I want four of them.""Four?""That's right.I don't like to be seen in the same cheap car too long.It hurts my image.""Well, is it just you?""Yes," Remo said."Do I look like more than one?""No, sir.I was just wondering who will drive the other three cars.""Nobody," Remo said."I want them to sit here in the parking lot until I come back for them.Better make it a three-month rental on all four [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]