"Martha shook her head. "Maybe I'd better see about getting ittranslated. Trouble is, I'd need someone who can keep their mouthshut."The two other wom...n sat glumly. Neither knew of anyone.A month or so later Martha was in town shopping and consulting herlawyer about some new property. Dora was waiting for her in a parkinglot. "Successful day?"Martha grimaced. "Well, it went well with my solicitor. That's allright, but I finished earlier than I thought so I went looking for somenew furniture in. I will attempt to put together the events and their details as close as I can to the correct chronological order. There were times while I gathered this material that it felt like I had a box of the pieces of two or three different jigsaw puzzles. All the puzzles were of the same scene but not quite from the same angle. The memories and time sequences of people don't always match so I had to piece the story of that time together as near as I could from 30 year old memories. If you think that's. ”“I’m sorry. I just don’t have ten dollars,” the young man said. He did his best to look miserable in the hope that Magus would let him pay for his services at a later date. One glance at Magus let him know that it wasn’t working.“I’m sorry, too,” Magus said.“I’m really desperate.”“Too bad. Now go.”“Can’t we work something out?”Magus answered, “No.”The young man rose and shuffled towards the office door. Magus said, “There’s a guy by the name of Phil in the office next to ours — Paladin. She was right. I had begun to move on in my life finally. Yet…I wasn’t divorced. I was only separated. ‘I…Nancy, I…’ ‘I know John. You’re not divorced and you feel strange about all of this. Trust me, I will not let myself be hurt, and I do understand. I really do. See you Friday.’ With that and a little peck on my cheek, she turned and went into her house. I stood there for a moment feeling the high of a wonderful evening and the pain of the knowledge of my recent life. As I drove back to my.