Keep the Tremaine ID for now, it will pass muster under casual inspection and for him to have none at all could create problems. But try to avoid havi...g to use it, continue maintaining a low profile until we can get him his own.”“You can do that?” Linda asks him.He smiles. “It helps to have contacts with the right people. To be in a position to pull some strings. And I think I’m going to have a vested interest in pulling those strings.”Linda had turned her head to look at me, but now she gives. ”“And I love you, Nikky Thomas. What are you going to do with me today?”“I’m going to have you meet with JR and Connie for fifteen minutes before the three of you meet the science editor from the New York Times, who will interview you about the Lithium-Thorium battery in the car Connie drove round-trip from here to Baltimore and back with only one overnight charge. He’ll be with you for up to ninety minutes including a photo op with the car.“Nat is going to join you to also talk about the. Gazza frowned, ‘Nah, the kid couldn’t have been mine. Denise and Larry didn’t decide to have kids until after I left Canberra. Denise sent me a picture of the kid just before I was due to fly back to Kabul. That’s where I was heading before I ended up here. She said he was six months old in it. For him to be mine, I’d have to have knocked her up just before I left Canberra.”“Mind you, Larry had been away for a couple of weeks, some memorial thing for his dad, Colonel Davin Brown and it had been. Her gait was just a little bit on the unstable side, something that gave away her somewhat less than sober state as I caught up with her outside the ballroom. "Ohmigosh, that was the most dreadful dinner conversation I've ever had," she grumbled in a slurred voice as she leaned against a decorative pillar. "Silly aunts." I know what you mean," I replied, once more with that sympathetic smile of mine. All the better to win her over. "My folks are just as cheong-hei [long winded] as yours."Gwen.