"You know, if this gets out, Lipscomb, I could endup dead real quick."He smiles. "But not before telling Hobbes all about me, right?" Absolutely." The... I better take very good care of it."He's got me. "You can have a copy, I'm keeping the original." That's a reasonable compromise."I walk out the door, heading directly for the car. I hear the officedoor open and close behind me, so Mom is probably following, but I'm notgoing to look back. The lock on the car door clicks, so I open it andsit in. "*****Lindelia smiled at her mission commander. "I'm very happy you were able to stay well-hidden, Argost. These people are a highly unpredictable lot. I was worried you might have had to leave me behind." I would have never been forgiven for that, Lindelia," replied Argost. "Leaving one of our few remaining fertile females, especially one as beautiful as you, behind in a backward place like this would have been politically suicide at home. Although that horrible plague that swept our world. Benjamin Gambitt. C.E.O.' while the one opposite read 'Mr. Samuel Gambitt. Vice C.E.O.'Gina knocked on the door and waited; instead of someone calling out for her to enter as she expected; the door swung open and there was Sam ushering her into the outer office; he then escorted her through to his own private office and she was once more very impressed for everything was solid mahogany and leather; in the centre of the room was a huge mahogany desk which was most imposing and she could imagine. ‘Where’s the Herald?’ ‘It hasn’t arrived. According to Sue, Pike’s Rural Delivery is paralyzed because of a strike by its warehouse people demanding a 20% increase in pay.’ ‘What! Those bastards sit on their bums for most of the day playing cards… I’ve seen them. I’ll call some of the guys together and we’ll do down and kick ass, giving them something to really protest about.’ ‘God and you and the boys would do jail time attempting to disrupt a labor strike by old methods,’ Barbara said. And.