In the air: Spin it son. This time the rattle of the little white ball was clearly audible in the area around the roulette table; the crowd had fallen entirely silent and Darlene's was the only bet on the felt. This was Carson City.

The light was dim and seemed to be bobbing slightly growing gradually brighter as the moments dragged by. "Someone with a torch " Barak muttered. The torchlight suddenly flickered throwing gyrating shadows. Then it grew steady no longer bobbing. After a few moments Silk came back carefully wiping his.
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Bureaucrats of the Peace Division. And so it was Ambassador-at-Large Rajasinghe who got all the publicity as he moved from one trouble-spot to another massaging egos here defusing crises there and manipulating the truth with consummate skill. Never actually lying of course; that would have been fatal. Without Ari's infallible memory he could never have kept control of the intricate webs he was sometimes compelled to spin that mankind might live in peace. When he had begun to enjoy the game for its own sake it was time to quit. That had been twenty years ago and he had never regretted his decision. Those who predicted that boredom would succeed where the temptations of power had failed did not know their man or understand his origins. He had gone back to the fields and forests of his youth and was.
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