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"Oh, hey, yeah. In Connecticut, wasn't it? But I<br />

think CIA was behind the scenes on that one, I don't<br />

think it was NIC," said the first, and slapped his thigh.<br />

The captains were secretly watching, without the sound,<br />

the Orioles play the Yankees on television.<br />

But the phone rang. It was the major general of the<br />

Chemical Corps's attaché, who wanted to know if<br />

anyone in their theater of operations had any idea where<br />

in Connecticut Robert Eagerly and Daniel Wolton might<br />

have taken an army helicopter that the regimental<br />

commander wanted back, pronto. G-2 pieced the<br />

scene together and called OSS, who confessed that<br />

Mr. Wolton had failed to attend a dinner party in<br />

Georgetown, to the annoyance of his hostess, who had<br />

promised everybody that the bachelor Wolton would<br />

be there. Later that night, G-2 reached Bob Eagerly's<br />

personal assistant while he was making love to his<br />

secretary in a Silver Springs motor lodge. He told G-2<br />

that yes, Wolton and Eagerly had taken a jet to<br />

Hartford together yesterday afternoon.<br />

The attaché had to interrupt the major general's<br />

pajamaed ride on an electric exercise bike because G-2

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