"Recruiters around town are offering guild plus fifty." (This was a stab in the dark; the atmosphere felt that tense.)
She shrugged. "If they are, we'll match it. What little girls photo weapons do you know? We aren't signing any raw recruits. Not little girls photo this time."
" little girls photo I can little girls photo teach little girls photo you any weapon little girls photo you think you know. Where's the action? Who's on first?"
"Mmm, real salty. Are you trying to little girls photo sign as a DI? I don't buy it."
I asked, "little girls photo Where's the action? Are we going upriver?&
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"You ain't even signed up and you're asking for classified information."
"For which I am prepared to pay." I took out fifty Lone-Star, in tens, laid them in front of little girls photo her. "little girls photo Where's the action, Sarge? I'll buy you a good knife to replace that carbon little girls photo steel I had little girls photo to expend."
"You're little girls photo an AP."
"Let's not little girls photo play the dozens. I little girls photo simply want to know whether or not we'll be going upriver. Say about as far as Saint Louis."
"Are you expecting to sign on as sergeant instructor?"
"What? Heavens, no! As a staff officer." I should not have said that-or at least not so soon. While ranks tend to be vague in Boss's outfit, I was certainly a senior officer in that I reported to and took little girls photo orders from Boss and Boss alone-and this was confirmed by the fact that I was Miss Friday to everyone but Boss-until and unless I asked for informal address. Even little girls photo Dr. Krasny had not spoken to me en tutoyant until I asked him to. But I had little girls photo never given much thought to my actual rank because, while I had no senior but Boss, I had no one working under me, either. On a formal T.O. (I had never seen one for Boss's company) I would have to be one of those little boxes leading out horizontally from the stem to little girls photo the C.O.Little girls photo -
i.e., a senior staff specialist, if you like bureaucratese.
"Well, fiddledeedee! If you can back that up, you'll little girls photo do it to Colonel Rachel, not to me. I expect her in around thirteen." Almost absentmindedly she reached out to pick up the cash.
I picked up the bills, tapped them even, put them
