This didnt mean a thing to the children except that now they were called in each morning to pick up some work that was to be done at home and so keep ...p some pretence of an education. They werent even opening up Andys actual school at all and so he had been into the smaller local infants school to hand in yesterdays work and pick up todays. This brief visit, even including the walk, had taken him no more than an hour and the work, being so basic, would probably only take him another hour to. As I passed, she turned to look at me. She smiled. It wasn’t one of those passing, polite smiles. It was an invitation smile.Normally it wouldn’t have registered till much later that it had been an invitation. So I’m not exactly sure as to why I stopped at her bumper and walked back to stand at her driver side window —but I'm glad I did. She rolled down her window enough for me to hear her speak. But the window also remained high enough that it would have been all but impossible for me to reach. . The girl had replied, blushing:- But Dad, I'll be dishonored, and all our family with!- No Fatima, what would be a disgrace, would be to have to come back to Algeria !And they did not talk about it again. But Mohamed was not calm, he did not know if Fatima had obeyed him or not. The day before the rendezvous in the prefecture, he could not stand it anymore. He entered the Fatima's room, lighting the room. She was in her pajamas, under her blankets, she was already sleeping.- Fatima, Fatima,. ‘So, am I being cheated?’ ‘Well, Sir, here is what I found so far.’ I showed him thousands of dollars that were misappropriated. ‘There could be more but I would need more time,’ I explained. He told his friend, ‘Snake, you stay here and keep an eye on my papers. I’ll be back in a couple of hours.’ Snake just sat back as I went page by page trying to find errors, he never said a word. It was over three hours later before I was finished going through them all. Mr. Big returned and I wrote down.