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Edson didn't say anything else. Indeed, he was a foolish man. Bosch crossed the hall into a long and wide living room. As long as man remembered, this comical bird had been called the hoopoe because of its ugly, short, sharp call.

He saw pale light leaking around the edges of the curtains on the windows facing east. The men considered what might be done to obliterate this telltale line and it was the Moabite who found the solution. Among his theories was that the old man had been killed in an accident at the plant and his body hidden to avoid an inquiry that could halt production. Never before had he dared to voice this confession, either to h;mself or to his wife, but now he shared it with Baal, and saw nothing