?You?ve got the perfect ice breaker.?
?What?s that??
?The blimp.?
Fric brightened. ?Yeah.?
The third limousine appeared.
?Just remember what we agreed. We?re not going to tell anyone about the stranger parts of it all.?
?I sure won?t,? Fric said. ?I don?t want to be booby-hatched.?
The fourth limousine entered, but the fifth paused outside the gates. From this distance, without binoculars, Ethan could not see [606] that Channing Manheim had in fact gotten out of the limo to meet the cameras and charm the press, but he was nevertheless morally certain that he owed Fric a pile of cow flop.
?Doesn?t seem like Christmas Eve,? Fric said quietly.
?It will,? Ethan promised.