lunch when the desert below them started to get
green, and the 'Fasten Your Seat Belt' light came on.
61 "Ladies and gentlemen," the Pilot announced, "in a few moments we
will be passing over the famous Northern Barrier. As we approach the
airport at Faith, I thank you for flying Fox Airways with us. Those
going on with us to Trinity will have a twenty minute wait, while we
refuel. Those catching local flights have fifty minutes to reach your
planes. Pleasant journey to all"
62 Bullet and Smiling Fox made their way through the airport and caught
the local plane going south. Barely had they settled in their
seats, than the man ahead of them struck up a conversation.
63 "Have you heard the latest rumors?" he asked. "They say some Hood
tried to kill The Young Speaker and The Young Speaker put him to work
for him! Can you imagine it? He takes the worst of people and makes
them into the best!"
64 "I think he's going too far!" argued another man, "his followers
just about ruined a company in my city. They made a deal with The City
Speakers for a piece of land that had been willed to the city for a
park, and built their factory on it. Would you believe those damned
fools made them tear the factory down and restore the land to a park?
All because of the sanctity of a will.
65 They don't care how much business is destroyed, how many people they
put out of work, as long as they don't break The Old Law. It's stupid.
Things change. We can't cling to old traditions. We've got to get
modern!"
66 "If getting modern," argued Smiling Fox, "means breaking our
promises to our Loved Ones, I'll stay old- fashioned. There is such a
thing as honor and if men don't have honor, they don't have anything at
all.
67 When someone gives something to someone, under certain conditions,
those conditions cannot be violated. Whether it is an individual or,
The Church. You don't