"What happened? What do you mean they got away?" Mike said groggily."You were shot in the back as we were going through the casino. You have been in a... induced coma for three days to keep you alive. Last night, just after the nurse left, you started responding and now you are finally awake. You wouldn't know how worried I was. One of the bullets glanced off your thick skull," June said as she kissed his cheek, and continued, "As to the kids, Jimmy got them new ID's and they fled when I told. She looked around at the other girls, who were frozen with shock. "She's unconscious, and it looks like she is badly hurt. You," she pointed at the girl closest to the door. "Run get Matron. Tell her the teacher tripped and is badly hurt. Then find Miss James and tell her that we will need an ambulance immediately. GO!" The girl jumped, spun around, and dashed through the door."You. Victoria. Take the other girls into the gym and have them run laps or something. Just keep them there until. M. no matter when you sleep first thing you do is to wash, wax and polish my Bentley and Ferrari from outside and clean from inside then you will clean and wax entire floor of the house to perfect shine and then you will come kneel outside my bedroom to serve me as I wakes up first you will put my slippers on my divine feet and greet me good morning by kissing tips of my slippers and then you will walk me to the bathroom stepping on your palms as I don’t even want my slippers sole to touch hard. They as far as we can tell aretrying to get attention. They refuse to allow the American to be takenfor treatment and have threatened to kill others regardless of theirstatus. It's worse--Nikolai Mitri is one of the hostages. If he iskilled-" -Mr. Secretary," Baklanov interrupted, "our intelligence says thatthey have a strong network of conspirators and it's possible theircause could spark anarchy that will quickly rage out of control. Weneed to act fast and quell this situation and make.