crew didn't get around to cremating those five
manhoods that were removed this morning. When the night crew went to do
it, they were gone ...just completely vanished! I told them to forget about it, that someone must have disposed of them
and not recorded it."
201 "Do you believe that?" laughed Bullet.
202 "No," admitted the Chief Guard, "but it will save a lot of
searching and tons of paperwork." As they started down the elevator she
smiled. "The only thing I wonder, is what They did with the other two.
You only used three!"
203 Bullet started laughing and she joined in. As they got in the car,
Bullet looked at his watch. "It's THAT late?" he gasped, "No wonder I'm
still hungry! I never had lunch, and I only ate a little bit with the
kids. Now I'm REALLY getting HUNGRY!"
204 "Everything inside's shut down," explained the Guard, "except for
the vending machines."
205 "There's a Sitting Ox restaurant near my house," sighed Bullet. "I
don't like those fast food places, but we can get a couple of burgers
and some Tabr sticks, and I can eat them while we're going up to the
house."
206 To his surprise, the Guard seemed to know the way to his house! "I
used to have a good friend," she explained, "lived just up the road
from you. He died a couple of years before you bought your property. I
used to come out here every day off. Spent most of my leaves out here.
Not many of these old country estates left. Almost all the farms now
are the roofs of housing complexes. You can drive for miles and never
see the sky! It just isn't like what it used to be, even in OUR day."
207 "I know what you mean," agreed Bullet. "The Sitting Ox is just on
your left, after we come out of the next passage."
208 As they pulled in the yard of the restaurant and the Chief Guard
shut off the engine, she turned and looked