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“You’re Bourne!”
“Obviously born again, you might say
“I don’t believe this!”
“Believe, FlannaganIt’s the ‘we’ we’re going to talk aboutSnake Lady, to be precise
“You’re the one—the one Swayne called ‘Cobra’!”
“It’s a snake
“I don’t get it—”
“It’s confusing
“You’re one of us!”
“I wasI snaked back in, as it were
The sergeant frantically looked at the door, then the windows“How’d you get in here? Where
are the guards, the dogs? Jesus! Where are they?”
“The dogs are asleep in the kennels, so I gave the guards the night off? The dogs are on the grounds!”
“Not any longerThey were persuaded to rest
“The guards—the goddamned guards!”
“They were persuaded to leaveWhat they think is happening here tonight is even more
confusing
“What’ve you done—what are you doing?”
“I thought I just mentioned itWe’re going to talk, Sergeant FlannaganI want to get caught up
with some old comrades
The frightened man backed awkwardly away from the chair“You’re the maniac they called
Delta before you turned and went in business for yourself!” he cried in a guttural whisper“There
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was a picture, a photograph—you were laid out on a slab, bloodstains all over the sheet from the
bullet wounds; your face was uncovered, your eyes wide open, holes still bleeding on your
forehead and your throatThey asked me who you were and I said, ‘He’s DeltaDelta One from
the illegals,’ and they said, ‘No, he’s not, he’s Jason Bourne, the killer, the assassin,’ so I said,
‘Then they’re one and the same because that man is Delta—I knew him They thanked me and told
me to go back and join the others
“Who were ‘they’?”
“Some people over at LangleyThe one who did all the talking had a limp; he carried a