That meant that I had a fifth of the profit and a fifth of the debt! The trouble was that the debt was eight million and the profit was measured in hu...dreds of thousands.It was my wife, Eve, my lovely wife who came up with the insurance scheme as I sat one evening trying to make sense of the company accounts.“Life insurance,” she had said as she looked at the balance sheet that I had sketched out on a piece of A4. “We transfer everything into my name, we insure you for a load of money and then. The businessman knew of many dissident groups looking for someremote area to colonize and escape repression in modern Victorian society.He had bought the location purely on speculation and did manage a modest profitwhen he sold it to the founder of the League to Preserve Tradition. The League was a loose organization of people who had not prospered fromthe Industrial Revolution. They managed to raise enough money to buy a shipand set sail for their new homeland. Like many great social. ”There was a long silence on the phone. Clearly the caller wasn’t used to being greeted in that fashion.“Who is this?”“Who is this?”“I’m Song Chu, Premier of Chen.”“Hey, Song! How’s it going, good buddy?” Sword Trang asked as if he were meeting up with an old fishing buddy for the first time in ages.There was a long silence and then, “Where’s President Broussard?”“He’s not here.”“Get him.”“I can’t do that.”“Why not?”“He’s dead.”There was another long period of silence.“Who are you?”“I’m Sword. Taking Nola's hand, we headed for the beach. It looked different! It was still early and still raining but the rougher part of the storm knocked down two palm trees. The ocean was rougher than I had seen it and the tide was higher by a number of feet. I realized that our little storm surge was nothing compared to a typhoon's big one. We walked over and quickly looked at the plane. It seemed to be okay and undisturbed.Nola said, "I wonder how the others made out?" I don't know. That beach isn't.