Evening. ts g in tance. Julie was. Emma    icule.

        tell me a story, said ther.

        Certainly, said ty four men in dark suits s and ties and attaing Uzi submac I    going to    me. t me, first hering gloom --

        Oiarrative.

        Very mu, doain, across a small river, to an even ill farty. to lu a er polig to t ced once again and fled in single file ts of ternoon over uses of various kinds, events per remember, to a yet ill farty. ered t t like ter. I    rees but    no fire ed. acock fired a s burst into tting t in fear aing once again and leaving to do    airees, er of a long valley ter ones and feo a    on our    ed me into tion of a single dle    me again, o be transported and    and til I aodated. I asked t t meant, aodated, but t.

        e left ted again. ter galloping for some    o a car e block, tered trand past a mec sponges e-model cars blue and gray and silver and be meco a large room    aken from my o my moutten somet see but    me. to teetten on to eaarroood t o make aggressive snarliures, I made aggressive snarliures o read ten on t persons piece of paper gripped bet to no avail, I could not read ten on any piece of paper alt a notion of ti t and t day and I became preoccupied , ed it on t timism, tures and attempts unsuccessful invariably to read ten on t of tanding before a door, tal bed atop    in tciced t tc, tepped to t and taken to top floor.

        I aken to top floor, tall as tree, it    resembled a    five ed t I o    me. t me, s. turing. aller of t ainly true, tisfa. ty so a Land-Rover    onto a broad arid plain for a distance of several opping at intervals to take orol and er in battered jerry s toned overs at depots along te.    day, tato salad. On t o a s sucky grasses tufted into a green scum, ern and me in t off across t cypresses gnarling and snarling all about us and to a greasy obacco dratac offered any of, and damaged me again,    to be tiring, I old me I c. but added t I ue of ttentions and t tury and tions of surface travel, less o see t Fat, t Fat ly grant me a boon but it o a er and I ly so my    be got up. I re I knerying to patso t riddle, er, in tance I could hear a r.

        Im fatigued, said ther.

        Be of good ce, said t ends soon.

        told me    Fat calling for tiated but I angling vines I perceived tlines of a serpent of s mout of tin oin and I o make out t and approac deferentially as o    I o be tested by t if o robe    Fat nodded most graciously and opening    fall t of tin ness of a mirror. My escorts set up t ture could regard    o creep undering t t Fat in fine smallclota taken from a maed beussling for o cover    length.

        I like    h long, very long.

        Reserve judgment, said t quite to the end.

        t on    skirt stuffed    and pleated and slaso ser scarlet, ts toget est movement or undulation. t Fat looked o t nor to t but stark a in. t jacket of meg in color and a turd in color, tertrimmed    on    of doublet of silver brocade slas and slas    tons, ttons being one dozen of ivory, one dozen of silk, one dozen of silk and    in gold.    on    ade of uns pear-colored inside and outside embroidered at top and doless in number and tons, altogetoning, in    a tree, I io ts ible. ted around    a girdle of russet gold ing o oers long. As t s massy goldsmitin and out again, I could not believe ten t Fat nodded o ongue from its scabbard, and pronounced o riddle.

        Fat    flourisipped tongue, and it is a son-of-a-bitcell you t, t are item in t in a    out     do you really feel? Like murderinging, I ans is    Fat,    it, and t me in stunned        I    feelings t I    said, t ted is ty to carry out t else? Gra may I remind you t en enoug o actually do it. For t Fat;    cordially; my paniourned me to ty. I y utterer.

        t is a tall tale, said t believe it ever happened.

        No tale ever ell it, said t t.

        is the moral?

        Murderinging, thomas said.

        Murderinging is not correct, said t be murdereded. Never. Absolutely not.

        I mentioned no names, said thomas.

        aring at t buckle.

        Very iced before.

        t buckle was silver. Six incwo.

        t buckle.

        Gift of tizens, many Fatuous s, on t Fathers Day.

        May I try it on? thomas asked.

        You    to try on my belt?

        Yes Id like to try it on if you dont mind.

        You may certainly try it on if you wish.

        t and    to thomas.

        t.

        I like it,    looks    back, if you like.

        My belt buckle! said ther.

        Im sure you dont mind, said tless you    as sumptuous.

        back to ther.

        I dont mind?

        Do you mind?

        Yes, Julie asked iedly, do you mind?

        I    one.

        Surely you    as fine.

        Yes I    ma buckles.

        I am deligo .

        Not    her said.

        You     buckle, t will do.

        Yes, Julie said, it will do.

        Quite a good buckle, my old buckle, thomas said.

        ting the old buckle.

        Not as fine as your former belt buckle, of course.

        It isnt, t.

        ts homas explained.

        I uand t, said ted tter buckle.

        And nohomas.

        ted    buckle.

        Looks quite good I think.

        It does, said Julie.

        Yes, Emma agreed.

        Gives you a bit more dashan you had before.

        to thank you.

        My pleasure, said to be able to do someto be able to give. Giving is, in a sense --

        No, said t us be clear. You didnt give. I took. took it a get it straigters trivial, but I    no misuanding. I took it. Away from you.

        Oher.

        for a moment.

        ill tion?

        Yes, said thomas. You may make a speech.

        No, Julie said. No speech.

        A speey assembled loyal, faithful --

        No, said Julie.

        Yes, said tomorrow.

        tomorrow?

        Maybe tomorrohomas.

        My speech!

        to bed, said to bed no dreams.

        tigs,    buckle.

        Yes! he said.
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