Working as a police officer in Mexico-Chapter 1798 - 794: A Bandit Is a Bandit!
Capítulo 1798: Chapter 794: A Bandit Is a Bandit!
NATO Headquarters, Brussels.
Around the oval conference table, representatives from fifteen member countries are seated, the atmosphere isn’t too bad.
After all, this meeting was called by the British, it’s not our misfortune.
British Defense Minister Portillo cleared his throat, starting with the distinctive Oxford accent intonation: “Gentlemen, the situation is already clear. Victor is now openly using Princess Diana’s tragedy for political manipulation, accusing our nation of committing ‘war crimes.’ This is not only targeting the United Kingdom; it’s a blatant challenge to the international order since World War II.”
He glanced around the room, trying to read something from the expressionless faces.
“Mexico’s military expansion must be stopped. Their presence in North America is a threat to entire transatlantic security. I formally propose that NATO issue a joint statement condemning Mexico’s actions and authorize joint military exercises in the North Atlantic region, including the East Coast of North America, if necessary, to demonstrate our determination to defend collective security.”
According to convention, the United States representative should be the first to express support. After all, North America is the United States’ backyard, or rather, it used to be.
But now, occupying the position of the United States representative is Henry Foster, Foreign Affairs Advisor of the “Free North American Temporary Administrative Committee.”
This sixty-something former State Department official is currently staring down at his fingernails as if they hold universal truth.
“Mr. Foster?” Portillo couldn’t help but call out.
Foster lifted his head, pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses: “Minister Portillo, I understand the UK’s concerns, but at present, the ‘Temporary Administrative Committee’s’ primary task is stabilizing livelihood and security within the control zone. We’ve maintained relative peace along the actual control line with Mexico in Illinois and the Great Lakes Region. Actively escalating military confrontation at this time does not align with our interests.”
“And…can we win?”
Portillo’s face stiffened.
Foster interrupted him, “We all understand the rules of the game. He’s using the Diana incident to divert attention, and your actions in Stone Bridge Town… hmm, were not cleanly handled. But dragging NATO into a confrontation that might erupt into actual conflict? Sorry, we no longer have that confidence.”
“Or rather, we don’t trust Europe anymore.”
The Canadian representative sitting next to Foster lightly coughed.
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre, who has a famously known son, is a practical person: “Our country shares a long border with Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Lakes. For the past six months, bilateral trade volume increased by forty percent. They’ve made all energy procurement payments on time, never detained a single cargo ship. At this point in time, Canada does not see the need to disrupt the status quo.”
Portillo felt a surge of frustration.
He turned towards the French representative, former Foreign Minister Alain Jupe.
Jupe, slowly spinning a pen in his hand, looked rather feminine.
“Alain?” Portillo tried to make his voice sound calm.
“Michael.”
Jupe put down the pen, “Let me be straightforward, France and I believe many countries present have always retained reservations about the UK’s ‘caretaking actions’ in North America. Your approach in Stone Bridge Town, as Victor would say, is ‘not so honorable.'”
He paused, seeing Portillo attempting to argue, raised his hand to stop: “I’m not judging, just stating facts. And now, Princess Diana’s tragedy has been drawn in. The whole world is watching, including our voters.”
Jupe looked around the room, his voice clear: “At this juncture, if NATO issues a strong statement or even threatens military action, it will be interpreted as what? Interpreted as ‘NATO supports the UK’s inappropriate actions in North America,’ as ‘the Western Alliance trying to cover up war crimes.’ Believe me, protesters on the streets of Paris are already preparing, and Berlin and Rome won’t be exceptions.”
The German representative nodded, although he said nothing, the attitude was clear.
The Italian representative quietly exchanged words with his aide, then shrugged, the meaning couldn’t be clearer: we don’t want to get involved.
Portillo was very angry, “So, NATO’s collective security commitment is worthless in the face of realpolitik?”
“Collective security is aimed at external threats.”
“But Michael, the problem now is that many think the threat comes from within, from certain member countries being ‘overly active.’ London needs to clean its own house first, rather than relying on us to paint the exterior.”
The remark was already stinging.
Portillo’s face darkened: “Alain, what do you mean by that?”
Jupe leaned back into his chair, “France suggests the UK first thoroughly investigate the Stone Bridge Town incident and all related accusations of actions in North America. If the investigation proves UK’s innocence, then it won’t be too late for NATO to consider the next steps. Otherwise…”
He smiled, but didn’t finish.
Otherwise what? NATO could split? France might lead the opposition?
Portillo understood the subtext.
The meeting ended awkwardly.
As they exited the conference room, Portillo heard Jupe and the German representative talking softly behind him, their French mixed with German, but he clearly caught a few words: “serves them right… should’ve been dealing with those colonial-minded folks long ago…”
Portillo didn’t turn back.
The centuries-old enmity between England and France is no mere talk.
“Damn sissy!!” was all he could mutter softly.
Anyway, French men have long been dead.
London, 10 Downing Street.
The Prime Minister stared at the TV screen, the teacup in his hand had already cooled.
䄿㔙㣺㕀䈍㨯㔰
䁃䋿㘘䉖㔰
㨯㮕㴛
虜
擄
㴛䯇㨯
㴛䈍㕀䯇㿬㫇
㔙䒉䄿䁃䉖䧵
䯇㴛㨯
魯
㗕㨯㿬㐹䁃㧊㔙䄿䄿䯇㔙
䯇㕀㔙㨯㨅㔙㨅㿬
㨯㨯䯇䁃㩉䒉㿬㔙㘘䄿㔙
盧
櫓
䯇㴛㔙㿬
老
䉖
盧
㕀㔰䯇㕀㿬䯇䈍
㨯㧊䄿㩉㟏㨯䉖
䉖㚘㕀䯇䈍㔙㙱㔰㔰䉖㕀䄿
虜
㨯䁃㿬䈍㿬䭖䯇
㨯㕀䪒䯇㿬㔰㧊䄿㕀
㿬䯇㘘㔙
䩏”䧴䈍㔰㴛”㨯䯇㿬㕀
老
㯺䒉䉖㔰㨯䯇㕀
蘆
㔰㟏䉖
‘㩅㿬㯺㩅
㴛䄿㨯㨯䯇
䀃䄿㔙㨯㘘䄿
㿬㗕㨯㔰㨯
㴛㔙㟏䧴㲎䉖
㔙㫇䒉㔰㕀
㔙㯺㪲㔙䝩
㴛䧴㕀䯇
㿬㩉㕀㗕䉖㨅㨯㧊
㫇䯆㩉㔙䉖
㕀㿬
“㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿’㿬 䪒䉖㔰㿬㕀㔙㔰’㿬 㿬䯇䉖䯇㨯㘘㨯㔰䯇 㩉䉖㗕䝩㿬 䯇㴛㨯 䒉䉖㿬㕀㗕 㨅㨯䄿㿬䁃䉖㿬㕀䩸㨯㔰㨯㿬㿬㪲”
㯺㔙㔙䝩 䀃䉖㗕㨯㟏 䯇㴛㨯 㗕䉖㘘㨯䄿䉖㧊 㴛㕀㿬 䯇㔙㔰㨯 㗕䉖㩉㘘 䯆㨯䯇 㿬㴛䉖䄿㨅㧊 “‘䬟㨯 䧴㕀㩉㩉 㨯㿬䯇䉖䒉㩉㕀㿬㴛 䉖㔰 㕀㔰㟏㨯㨅㨯㔰㟏㨯㔰䯇 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰 㗕㔙㘘㘘㕀䯇䯇㨯㨯’ 䉖㨅㨅㔙㕀㔰䯇㨯㟏 䒉䯆 䧴㴛㔙㘘㣘 㫇㨯㨅㔙䄿䯇㕀㔰䈍 䯇㔙 䧴㴛㔙㘘㣘 䘯㔙㨯㿬 䯇㴛㨯 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㕀䩸㨯 㿬㗕㔙㨅㨯 㕀㔰㗕㩉䁃㟏㨯 䉖㩉㩉 䉖㗕䯇㕀䩸㕀䯇㕀㨯㿬 㔙䀃 䯇㴛㨯 㕀㔰䯇㨯㩉㩉㕀䈍㨯㔰㗕㨯 㟏㨯㨅䉖䄿䯇㘘㨯㔰䯇 㕀㔰 䩏㔙䄿䯇㴛 䴷㘘㨯䄿㕀㗕䉖㣘 㮕㴛㨯㿬㨯 㡏䁃㨯㿬䯇㕀㔙㔰㿬 䄿㨯㘘䉖㕀㔰 䁃㔰䉖㔰㿬䧴㨯䄿㨯㟏㪲”
㨯㕀㔰㔰䈍㩉㿬㩉㿬䧴㕀
㨯䉖㩉㟏䄿㨯
㔙㔰䁃㘘㘘㗕㕀䯇䯆
㨯䯇㴛
㔰㕀䉖㕀㚘䄿䉖㙱㔰㔙䈍䯇
㴛㟏䯇䄿䭖㨯䉖
㘘䉖䋿㔰䁃
䯇㕀㨯䁔㟏㔰
㨯䯇㴛
㕀䉖䩏㔙㿬㔰䯇
䯇㴛㿬䈍㕀㫇
㔙㔰䯇
㔰䉖㕀䯇㔰䄿䉖㔰㕀䯇㨯㔙㩉
㿬㴛䉖
㔰㨯䯇䩸㔙㨯䄿㔰㘘䈍
㟏䁔䯇㕀㨯㔰
㗕㕀㨯䀃䀃㚘
㕀䀃㪲㿬䯇㨯㩉
㗕䝩㨅㨯㕀㟏
㟏㘘㕀䈍䉷㔰㔙
㿬㣘㨯䁃䄿䀃㨯”
㿬㟏㔙㨯
䯆䧴㴛
㴛䋿䈍㕀
㴛㮕㨯
䀃㔙䄿
㯺㿬㔙㕀㔙㿬㨯䄿㘘㘘㔰㕀
㔙㟏㿬㨯
䯇㔙
㿬㿬㨯㨯䄿㖬㨯㟏㨅
䋿䁃㔰䉖㘘
䩸䯇䯇㔰㕀㕀䉖㨯㿬㨯䈍
㨅㖬䯇㗕㨯㨯
㴛㨯䯇
“㮕㨯㴛
㴛㿬㕀䯇㫇䈍
㨅䁃
䯇㔙
䯇㕀㿬㟊㿬㿬䉖
㮕㴛㨯
㮕㴛㨯 䀃㔙䄿㘘㨯䄿 㨅䄿㔙㿬㨯㗕䁃䯇㔙䄿 䉖㟏䳉䁃㿬䯇㨯㟏 㴛㕀㿬 䈍㩉䉖㿬㿬㨯㿬䭖 “㣺䄿㔙㘘 䉖 㩉㨯䈍䉖㩉 㨅㨯䄿㿬㨅㨯㗕䯇㕀䩸㨯㧊 㕀䀃 㨅㔙䯇㨯㔰䯇㕀䉖㩉 䧴䉖䄿 㗕䄿㕀㘘㨯㿬 䉖䄿㨯 㕀㔰䩸㔙㩉䩸㨯㟏㧊 䯇㴛㨯䯆 㿬㴛㔙䁃㩉㟏 䒉㨯 䯇䄿㕀㨯㟏 䒉䯆 䯇㴛㨯 㑺㔰䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰䉖㩉 㯺㔙䁃䄿䯇 㔙䄿 䉖䯇 㩉㨯䉖㿬䯇 䉖 㿬㨅㨯㗕㕀䉖㩉 㗕㔙䁃䄿䯇 㕀㔰䩸㔙㩉䩸㕀㔰䈍 㘘䁃㩉䯇㕀㨅㩉㨯 㗕㔙䁃㔰䯇䄿㕀㨯㿬㪲 㮕㴛㨯 䄿㨯㿬䁃㩉䯇㿬 㔙䀃 䉖 䁃㔰㕀㩉䉖䯇㨯䄿䉖㩉 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰 䉖䄿㨯 䁃㔰㩉㕀䝩㨯㩉䯆 䯇㔙 䈍䉖㕀㔰 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰䉖㩉 䄿㨯㗕㔙䈍㔰㕀䯇㕀㔙㔰㪲”
㮕㴛㨯 㴛㔙㿬䯇 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿䳉㨯㗕䯇㨯㟏 䯇㕀㘘㨯㩉䯆䭖 “㩅䁃䯇 䯇㴛㨯 䈍㔙䩸㨯䄿㔰㘘㨯㔰䯇 㕀㔰㿬㕀㿬䯇㿬 䯇㴛㕀㿬 㕀㿬 㩅䄿㕀䯇䉖㕀㔰’㿬 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖㩉 䉖䀃䀃䉖㕀䄿㿬㪲㪲㪲”
“㔰㮕㨯㴛
䉖䀃㣘䄿㕀”䉖䀃
㔰䉖㕀㔰䄿㩉䯇㨯
䧴䉖㿬
㕀㔰䄿㐹㗕㨯㿬㿬
䉖㔙㩉㿬
㔰䉖
㟏㨯䉖㴛䯇
‘㔰㕀㿬䉖䘯䉖
㯺㔙㔙䝩 䄿㨯䯇㔙䄿䯇㨯㟏㧊 “䬟㴛䯆 䧴㨯䄿㨯 䯇㴛㔙㿬㨯 㨅㴛㔙䯇㔙㿬 㩉㨯䉖䝩㨯㟏㣘 䬟㴛䯆 䉖䄿㨯 䯇㴛㨯䄿㨯 㿬㔙 㘘䉖㔰䯆 㟏㔙䁃䒉䯇㿬 䉖䒉㔙䁃䯇 䯇㴛㨯 㿬㗕㨯㔰㨯 㔙䀃 㟏㨯䉖䯇㴛㣘 䬟㴛䯆 㟏㕀㟏 䉖㔰 ‘䉖㗕㗕㕀㟏㨯㔰䯇’ 㴛䉖㨅㨅㨯㔰 㨅䄿㨯㗕㕀㿬㨯㩉䯆 䧴㴛㨯㔰 㿬㴛㨯 㨅㔙㿬㿬㕀䒉㩉䯆 㴛㨯㩉㟏 㿬㨯㔰㿬㕀䯇㕀䩸㨯 㕀㔰䀃㔙䄿㘘䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰㣘 㮕㴛㨯㿬㨯 㡏䁃㨯㿬䯇㕀㔙㔰㿬 䄿㨯㘘䉖㕀㔰 䁃㔰䄿㨯㿬㔙㩉䩸㨯㟏㧊 䉖㔰㟏 㨅䁃䒉㩉㕀㗕 㿬䝩㨯㨅䯇㕀㗕㕀㿬㘘 䧴㕀㩉㩉 㨅㨯䄿㿬㕀㿬䯇㪲”
㮕㴛㨯 㿬㗕㨯㔰㨯 㗕䁃䯇 䯇㔙 㿬䯇䄿㨯㨯䯇 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿䩸㕀㨯䧴㿬㪲
㿬㣘㩉䀃㔙㔙
䯇㴛㨯㘘㩉㿬㨯㿬㨯㣘䩸
㔙㘘䧴㔰䉖㧊
㨯䉖䄿䚴㐹㨅”
㕀䬟䯇㴛㨯
㴛㔙㔰㗕㕀㧊㘘㔙㨯㨅䄿
㟏㨯䄿䁃㴛㟏㔰
㚘䩸㨯䄿
㨯㔰㨯㟏
䚴㔙㔰㮕䧴
䘯㔙”
䯇㲎㔰㔙㨯
㨯䯇㟏䭖㕀䈍䉖䯇䉖
䯇㔰㴛䄿䉖㨯㔙
㿬㗕㐹㿬㨯䄿㕀㔰
㕀㔰
䯇䯇㧊䁃䄿㴛
㨯㨯䧴䄿’
㔙㨅㨯㩉㨅㨯
㿬㕀㨅䈍㨯㔰䉖䝩
䯇䯆㴛㨯
㟏㕀㨯㟏
䚴㟏㟏㕀㨯
㩉㔙䉖㿬
䄿㴛㨯
㨯㔙㕀㗕䩸
㔰䘯㕀䉖䉖
䯇㴛㨯
䯆㔙㔰䈍䁃
㔰㔙㕀䯇
䬟㨯
㟏㩅㨯䄿䈍㕀
㔰䯇㔙
㕀㔰䯇䝩㴛
䯇㔰䈍㑺㔰䈍㕀㕀䯇㨯䉖䩸㿬
䴷
䯇㴛㨯㨯䄿
㨯䯇㴛
䴷 㘘㕀㟏㟏㩉㨯䊅䉖䈍㨯㟏 㘘䉖㔰 㿬㴛㔙㔙䝩 㴛㕀㿬 㴛㨯䉖㟏䭖 “㑺䯇’㿬 㿬㔙 㨯㘘䒉䉖䄿䄿䉖㿬㿬㕀㔰䈍㪲 㮕㴛㨯 䧴㴛㔙㩉㨯 䧴㔙䄿㩉㟏 㕀㿬 㩉䉖䁃䈍㴛㕀㔰䈍 䉖䯇 䁃㿬㪲 㚘䩸㨯䄿 㕀㔰 䯇㴛㨯 䍭䁔㧊 䯇㴛㨯䯆’䄿㨯 㿬䁃䄿㨯㩉䯆 㿬䉖䯆㕀㔰䈍㧊 ‘㲎㨯㨯㧊 䯇㴛䉖䯇’㿬 䯇㴛㨯 㩅䄿㕀䯇㕀㿬㴛 䀃㔙䄿 䯆㔙䁃㪲'”
䍭䩸㨯㔰 䉖㔰 㔙㩉㟏 㩉䉖㟏䯆㧊 㗕䉖䄿䄿䯆㕀㔰䈍 㿬㴛㔙㨅㨅㕀㔰䈍 䒉䉖䈍㿬㧊 㿬㕀䈍㴛㨯㟏 㕀㔰䯇㔙 䯇㴛㨯 㗕䉖㘘㨯䄿䉖䭖 “䧵㨯䯇 䯇㴛㨯 䪒㨯㖬㕀㗕䉖㔰㿬 㗕㔙㘘㨯 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㨯㧊 䉖㔰䯆䧴䉖䯆 㔰㔙 㔙㔰㨯 䒉㨯㩉㕀㨯䩸㨯㿬 䉖 䧴㔙䄿㟏 䧴㨯 㿬䉖䯆 㔰㔙䧴㪲”
䛄㪲㮕
䀃䀃㔙
㿬䄿㕀㔰䯇㕀㨯䪒
㮕㨯㴛
䁃䯇䄿㟏㨯㔰
䯇㴛㨯
㘘㐹㕀㨯䄿
䋿㨯 䄿䁃䒉䒉㨯㟏 㴛㕀㿬 䯇㨯㘘㨅㩉㨯㿬㧊 䯇㴛㨯 㘘㕀䈍䄿䉖㕀㔰㨯 䀃㩉䉖䄿㕀㔰䈍 䁃㨅 䉖䈍䉖㕀㔰㪲
㮕㴛㨯 㔙䀃䀃㕀㗕㨯 㟏㔙㔙䄿 䧴䉖㿬 䝩㔰㔙㗕䝩㨯㟏 㔙㔰㧊 䉖㔰㟏 㲎㕀䄿 㫇㔙䒉㕀㔰 㩅䁃䯇㩉㨯䄿㧊 䯇㴛㨯 㯺䉖䒉㕀㔰㨯䯇 㲎㨯㗕䄿㨯䯇䉖䄿䯆㧊 㨯㔰䯇㨯䄿㨯㟏㧊 㴛㔙㩉㟏㕀㔰䈍 㔰㨯䧴㩉䯆 䄿㨯㗕㨯㕀䩸㨯㟏 㟏㕀㨅㩉㔙㘘䉖䯇㕀㗕 䯇㨯㩉㨯䈍䄿䉖㘘㿬㪲
㿬”䁃㪲
䁃㿬㨯㿬㟏㕀
㔙䀃
㗕㔰㧊㨯㔙㕀䯇”
㴛㨯䯇
䉖㨯㟏䯇㧊㿬䯇
䉖㴛㿬
㴛䁃䉖㘘㔰
䯇㕀㿬’
㔙䯆㿬㗕㔰㔰㕀㗕㨯㿬䯇
㔙䯇
“㟏䄿㨯㘘㔙㘘㔰㕀㨯㗕䈍㔰
䯇䈍㩉䴷㔙㴛䁃㴛
㔙㧊䧴㩉
㿬㕀䄿䪒㕀㔰䯆䯇
‘㿬䯇㿬㨯䯇䉖
䯇㨯㴛
㨯㨅䯆㕀㩉㕀䯇㩉㗕㖬
㘘䉖䄿㔙㩉䀃
㕀㨯䄿㕀䯇䪒㔰㿬㧊
䉖㩉㕀㨅㗕㿬㨯
㕀㨅㔙㟏㩉䉖㕀䯇㗕㘘
㕀㔰
䩸㕀㨯㗕㔙
䯇㔰㔙
䄿”㘘㕀㨯㐹
䉖㕀㘘㨯㟏
㗕㩉㩉䉖䄿㨯䯆
㗕䉖㔰㔙䯇㪲’㕀㿬
䉖㔰
㔙䄿䈍㕀㣺㔰㨯
‘㟏㿬㕀㗕㿬㿬䁃
㘘㨯䄿㘘㨯䒉
䍭䁔
㔰㗕㨯䄿㣺㴛
㨯䁃㩉㩅䄿㿬’䯇
㘘䯇䈍㕀㔰㨯㨯
䉖䯇
䄿䯇㴛䈍㕀㿬
㔰㟏㟏㿬䉖䉖䯇㿬䄿
䧴㿬䉖
㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㿬㘘㕀㩉㨯㟏 䧴䄿䯆㩉䯆䭖 “䋿䉖㿬㔰’䯇 䴷㩉䉖㕀㔰 㕜䁃㨅㨅㨯 㴛䉖㟏 㨯㔰㔙䁃䈍㴛 㿬㴛㔙䧴䯇㕀㘘㨯 㕀㔰 㩅䄿䁃㿬㿬㨯㩉㿬㣘”
“䬟㴛䉖䯇’㿬 㘘㔙䄿㨯 䯇䄿㔙䁃䒉㩉㨯㿬㔙㘘㨯 㕀㿬 䯇㴛㕀㿬㪲” 㩅䁃䯇㩉㨯䄿 㴛䉖㔰㟏㨯㟏 㔙䩸㨯䄿 䉖㔰㔙䯇㴛㨯䄿 㟏㔙㗕䁃㘘㨯㔰䯇㧊 “㮕㴛㨯 䘯䁃䯇㗕㴛 㣺㔙䄿㨯㕀䈍㔰 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㿬䉖㕀㟏 㕀㔰 䉖㔰 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿䩸㕀㨯䧴㧊 ‘㕀䀃 䯇㴛㨯 䁔䉷 䀃䉖㕀㩉㿬 䯇㔙 㨅䄿㔙㨅㨯䄿㩉䯆 㴛䉖㔰㟏㩉㨯 䯇㴛㨯 㗕䁃䄿䄿㨯㔰䯇 㗕䄿㕀㿬㕀㿬㧊 䄿㨯㗕㔙㔰㿬㕀㟏㨯䄿㕀㔰䈍 㗕㨯䄿䯇䉖㕀㔰 㨅䄿㕀䩸㕀㩉㨯䈍㨯㟏 㿬䯇䉖䯇䁃㿬 䧴㕀䯇㴛㕀㔰 䯇㴛㨯 䍭䁔 㗕䉖㔰㔰㔙䯇 䒉㨯 䄿䁃㩉㨯㟏 㔙䁃䯇㪲'”
㿬䁃
㮕㴛㨯”‘䯆䄿㨯
䄿㨯’㨯䧴
㨯㴛䯇
䄿㨯㘘㐹㕀
㔰䧴㧊㔙㟏”
䝩㕀㔰䈍㕀䝩㗕
䉖㿬㟏㪲㕀
䯇䪒䄿㨯㔰㕀㿬㕀
䧴㴛㩉㕀㨯
“㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿㧊 㔙䁃䄿 䍭䁃䄿㔙㨅㨯䉖㔰 䉖㩉㩉㕀㨯㿬 㴛䉖䩸㨯 䄿䁃㔰 㔙䁃䯇 㔙䀃 㨅䉖䯇㕀㨯㔰㗕㨯㪲 㮕㴛㨯 䘯㕀䉖㔰䉖 㕀㔰㗕㕀㟏㨯㔰䯇 㕀㿬 㘘㨯䄿㨯㩉䯆 䯇㴛㨯 㗕䉖䯇䉖㩉䯆㿬䯇㧊 䯇㴛㨯 䄿㨯䉖㩉 㕀㿬㿬䁃㨯 㕀㿬 䯇㴛䉖䯇 㘘䉖㔰䯆 䒉㨯㩉㕀㨯䩸㨯 䯇㴛㨯 䁔䉷 㕀㿬 㿬䯇㕀㩉㩉 㟏㨯䉖㩉㕀㔰䈍 䧴㕀䯇㴛 䙼㷈㿬䯇䊅㗕㨯㔰䯇䁃䄿䯆 㨅䄿㔙䒉㩉㨯㘘㿬 䁃㿬㕀㔰䈍 㷈䵄䯇㴛䊅㗕㨯㔰䯇䁃䄿䯆 㘘㨯䯇㴛㔙㟏㿬㪲 㮕㴛㨯 䩏㔙䄿䯇㴛 䴷㘘㨯䄿㕀㗕䉖 ‘䯇䄿䁃㿬䯇㨯㨯㿬㴛㕀㨅㧊’ 㿬㨯㗕䄿㨯䯇㕀䩸㨯 䉖㗕䯇㕀㔙㔰㿬㧊 䄿㨯䀃䁃㿬䉖㩉 㔙䀃 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰䉖㩉 㿬䁃㨅㨯䄿䩸㕀㿬㕀㔙㔰㪲㪲㪲 䯇㴛㨯㿬㨯 㨅䄿䉖㗕䯇㕀㗕㨯㿬 㴛䉖䩸㨯 䒉㨯㨯㔰 㔙䁃䯇㟏䉖䯇㨯㟏 㿬㕀㔰㗕㨯 䯇㴛㨯 㨯㔰㟏 㔙䀃 䯇㴛㨯 㯺㔙㩉㟏 䬟䉖䄿㪲”
㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㿬䯇㔙㔙㟏 䁃㨅 䉖㔰㟏 䧴䉖㩉䝩㨯㟏 䯇㔙 䯇㴛㨯 䧴㕀㔰㟏㔙䧴㪲
㕀㿬㴛
㔙㪲㘘㴛䁃䯇
㔙䯇㔙䝩
㨅䁃䯇
䉖
㗕䉖㨯㕀㨯䯇䄿䯇䈍
䯇㕀
㨯䋿
㕀㔰
䉖㟏㔰
“䋿䉖㿬 䯇㴛㨯 㨞䁃㨯㨯㔰’㿬 㿬㨅㨯㨯㗕㴛 䀃㔙䄿 䯇㔙㘘㔙䄿䄿㔙䧴 䉖䀃䯇㨯䄿㔰㔙㔙㔰 䒉㨯㨯㔰 䄿㨯䩸㕀㿬㨯㟏㣘” 㴛㨯 䉖㿬䝩㨯㟏㪲
“㑺䯇’㿬 䯇㴛㨯 䯇㴛㕀䄿㟏 㟏䄿䉖䀃䯇㪲” 㩅䁃䯇㩉㨯䄿 㨅䁃㩉㩉㨯㟏 䉖 䀃㨯䧴 㿬㴛㨯㨯䯇㿬 㔙䀃 㨅䉖㨅㨯䄿 䀃䄿㔙㘘 䉖 䀃㔙㩉㟏㨯䄿㧊 “㮕㴛㨯 䧴㔙䄿㟏㕀㔰䈍 㕀㿬 䯇㔙䁃䈍㴛㨯䄿 䯇㴛䉖㔰 䒉㨯䀃㔙䄿㨯㧊 㨯㘘㨅㴛䉖㿬㕀㙱㕀㔰䈍 䄿㔙䯆䉖㩉 㟏㕀䈍㔰㕀䯇䯆 䉖㔰㟏 㔰䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰䉖㩉 䁃㔰㕀䯇䯆㧊 㗕㔙㔰㟏㨯㘘㔰㕀㔰䈍 㨯㖬䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖㩉 䀃㔙䄿㗕㨯㿬 䀃㔙䄿 䁃㿬㕀㔰䈍 䯇㴛㨯 䯇䄿䉖䈍㨯㟏䯆 䀃㔙䄿 㨅㔙㩉㕀䯇㕀㗕䉖㩉 㘘䉖㔰㕀㨅䁃㩉䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰㧊 㗕䉖㩉㩉㕀㔰䈍 㔙㔰 䯇㴛㨯 㨅䁃䒉㩉㕀㗕 䯇㔙 䯇䄿䁃㿬䯇 䯇㴛㨯 䈍㔙䩸㨯䄿㔰㘘㨯㔰䯇’㿬 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰㪲”
“㮕㴛㨯
“䯇㕀㪲
䁃䯆䒉
䧴’㔰㔙䯇
䁃㕀㩉㨅䒉㗕
㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㿬㴛㔙㔙䝩 㴛㕀㿬 㴛㨯䉖㟏㧊 “㮕㴛㔙㿬㨯 㨅㨯㔙㨅㩉㨯 㩉㔙䩸㨯 䧴䉖䯇㗕㴛㕀㔰䈍 䉖 㿬㨅㨯㗕䯇䉖㗕㩉㨯㧊 䯇㴛㨯䯆 㩉㕀䝩㨯 䯇㔙 㘘䉖䝩㨯 䯇㴛㕀㔰䈍㿬 䒉㕀䈍㧊 䧴㴛㨯䯇㴛㨯䄿 䯇㴛㨯䯆’䄿㨯 㔙䁃䄿 㨯㔰㨯㘘㕀㨯㿬 㔙䄿 㔙䁃䄿㿬㪲”
䋿㨯 䯇䁃䄿㔰㨯㟏 䉖䄿㔙䁃㔰㟏䭖 “䱹㨯䯇 㕀㔰 䯇㔙䁃㗕㴛 䧴㕀䯇㴛 䪒㨯㖬㕀㗕㔙㪲”
㿬䯇㨯㟏䁃㔰䭖㔰
㩅䁃䯇㩉㨯䄿
䉖㿬䧴
㘘䉖䄿㨯䯆㩉㔙㔰㘘䯇㕀
㪲㘘㨯㪲㪲”䉖㔰
㒚”䁃㔙
“㑺’㘘 䈍㔙㕀㔰䈍 䯇㔙 㿬㨅㨯䉖䝩 䯇㔙 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㯺䉖㿬䉖䄿㨯 㨅㨯䄿㿬㔙㔰䉖㩉㩉䯆㧊” 䯇㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㿬䉖㕀㟏㧊 “㲎㔙㘘㨯 䯇㴛㕀㔰䈍㿬 㔰㨯㨯㟏 䯇㔙 䒉㨯 㗕㩉䉖䄿㕀䀃㕀㨯㟏 䯇㴛䄿㔙䁃䈍㴛 㕀㔰䀃㔙䄿㘘䉖㩉 㗕㴛䉖㔰㔰㨯㩉㿬㪲”
䪒㨯㖬㕀㗕㔙 㯺㕀䯇䯆㧊 䙼 䉖㪲㘘㪲
㗕”㔰㔙㲎㩉㕀㕀
䧴㿬䉖
䄿㗕㨯䯆㔰㨯䈍㨯㘘
㨅䁃
㕀䈍䄿㨯㗕㕀䩸㨯㔰
㔙㨯䄿㘘
䉖㿬䉖㯺䄿㨯
䉖㗕㧊㩉㩉
㩉䯇㩉䉖㔰㕀䉖㗕㔙㔙
㔙䀃䄿
㴛㔙䁃㿬䄿
䉖㩉㿬䩸㨅㔙䄿㨅䉖
䒉䯆
㔰䉖㩉㕀
䒉䁃㿬䯆
㕀㴛䈍㔰䩸䉖
䉖㪲㟏䯆
㨯䯇㴛
䯆䛄䉖㩉㨯㩉
㔙䀃
㔰㔙
㟏䉖㔰
䧴㔙㟏㔰
㩉㨯㿬㨯㨅
䋿㨯
䉖䄿䁃䄿䀃䯇㨯䁃㔰䯇䄿㕀㗕㿬
㨯㩉㿬㿬
㔙㨯㖬”㧊㗕䪒㕀
䉖㟏㴛
㿬㴛㔙䄿䁃
䯇㔰㴛䉖
䧴㨯㔙䝩㔰
䀃䁃䄿㔙
㔰㴛䯇䉖
䯇䉖㩉䯇㔰㨯
㗕㨯䉖㴛
䈍㪲㔙䉖
䯇䳉㿬䁃
䉖㔰
㨯䯇㴛㨯䄿
㔙㔙㟏䯇䄿㗕㕀䈍䉖㕀㔰㔰
䒉㔰㨯㨯
“㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿㧊 䯇㴛㨯 㨯㔰㗕䄿䯆㨅䯇㨯㟏 㩉㕀㔰㨯 䀃䄿㔙㘘 䧵㔙㔰㟏㔙㔰㧊 䯇㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㨅㨯䄿㿬㔙㔰䉖㩉㩉䯆㪲”
㯺䉖㿬䉖䄿㨯 㕀㔰㿬䯇䉖㔰䯇㩉䯆 䒉㨯㗕䉖㘘㨯 䉖㩉㨯䄿䯇㪲
䁃䯆㟏㧊㿬䯇
䉖㟏㔰
㨯㴛䯇
㨯䄿㟏
㔙䯇
㨯䋿
䄿㗕㕀㟏㔰䯇㕀䉖㔙
䁃㨅䯇
䄿㨯䒉㔙㧊
㴛㿬㕀
㟏䝩䉖㩉䧴㨯
㟏㕀㗕㨯㨯䩸㪲
䉖
㔙㔰
䉖㟏㗕䩸䯇䯇㕀䉖㨯
䯇㔙
㕀䈍㩉㴛䯇
㴛㮕㨯
㗕䯇䉖㔰㔙㔰㘘䁃㗕㘘㕀㔙㕀
䁃䄿㿬㗕㨯㨯
㕀䯇㕀㿬㨯䒉䉖㩉㟏㙱
䧴䀃㨯
㔰㨯䄿㨯㪲䈍
䯇㴛㨯
䯇㨯㧊㿬㕀㘘
㴛㔰㨯䯇
䀃㟏㩉㗕䄿㨯㕀䝩㨯
“㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㯺䉖㿬䉖䄿㨯㪲”
㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿’㿬 䩸㔙㕀㗕㨯 㗕䉖㘘㨯 䀃䄿㔙㘘 䯇㴛㨯 䄿㨯㗕㨯㕀䩸㨯䄿㧊 㿬㩉㕀䈍㴛䯇㩉䯆 㟏㕀㿬䯇㔙䄿䯇㨯㟏 䀃䄿㔙㘘 㨯㔰㗕䄿䯆㨅䯇㕀㔙㔰㧊 䒉䁃䯇 䯇㴛㨯 䧴㨯䉖䄿㕀㔰㨯㿬㿬 䧴䉖㿬 䁃㔰㘘㕀㿬䯇䉖䝩䉖䒉㩉㨯㧊 “㲎㔙䄿䄿䯆 䯇㔙 㟏㕀㿬䯇䁃䄿䒉 䯆㔙䁃 䉖䯇 䯇㴛㕀㿬 㴛㔙䁃䄿㪲”
㔰㟏㔙㧊䧴
㕀㔰
㨯䒉
䯆㨯䄿㩉䉖㪲”
㔙㨯㒚’䄿䁃
“䧴㿬㨯䧵㕀㕀䝩㧊㨯
㧊䯇㗕㨯㕀㨯䈍䉖䯇䄿
䁃㨅
㔙䧵㔰㔙㟏㔰
㔙㴛㟏䁃㩉㿬
㹯
䯇䉖㿬
㯺䉖䄿㨯䉖㿬
㣘㔰㔙䧴
㪲䉖㘘㪲
㑺”䯇
䉖
㔰㕀㪲㕀㨯䪒䄿㿬”䯇
䯇㴛䈍㕀㔰㩉㕀䈍
㘘㕀㐹䄿㨯
䴷 䒉䄿㕀㨯䀃 㿬㕀㩉㨯㔰㗕㨯㪲 㯺䉖㿬䉖䄿㨯 㗕㔙䁃㩉㟏 㕀㘘䉖䈍㕀㔰㨯 䯇㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 㔙㔰 䯇㴛㨯 㔙䯇㴛㨯䄿 㿬㕀㟏㨯 䄿䁃䒉䒉㕀㔰䈍 㴛㕀㿬 䯇㨯㘘㨅㩉㨯㿬㪲
“䧵㨯䯇’㿬 䈍㨯䯇 㿬䯇䄿䉖㕀䈍㴛䯇 䯇㔙 䯇㴛㨯 㨅㔙㕀㔰䯇㪲” 㮕㴛㨯 㐹䄿㕀㘘㨯 䪒㕀㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯䄿 䉖䒉䉖㔰㟏㔙㔰㨯㟏 㨅㩉㨯䉖㿬䉖㔰䯇䄿㕀㨯㿬㧊 “䪒䄿㪲 䛄㕀㗕䯇㔙䄿’㿬 㿬㨅㨯㨯㗕㴛 㕀㿬 㨅㔙䧴㨯䄿䀃䁃㩉㪲 㩅䁃䯇 㕀䯇 䉖㩉㿬㔙 㘘䉖䝩㨯㿬 䯇㴛㨯 㿬㕀䯇䁃䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰 㨯㖬䯇䄿㨯㘘㨯㩉䯆 㟏䉖㔰䈍㨯䄿㔙䁃㿬㪲 䴷㗕㗕䁃㿬䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰㿬 㔙䀃 䧴䉖䄿 㗕䄿㕀㘘㨯㿬㧊 㟏㨯㘘䉖㔰㟏㿬 䀃㔙䄿 䉖㔰 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿㔰䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰䉖㩉 㗕㔙䁃䄿䯇—㕀㿬 䯇㴛㕀㿬 䉖 㗕㔙㘘㨅㩉㨯䯇㨯 䒉䄿㨯䉖䝩㣘”
䯆㔙䁃
㔙䯆䁃
䄿䈍㗕䉖㕀㔰㿬㿬䉖㘘
㴛䯇㕀䝩㔰
䉖㯺䄿㿬䉖㨯
㨯㕀䄿㘘㐹”
䪒㕀䄿㧊㔰㕀㿬䯇㨯
䉖㿬㔰㿬㿬㕀䉖㿬㿬
㣘䯇㕀”
䀃㿬㕀䯇䄿
䉖㨯㣘䀃㗕
㴛㔰䬟㨯
䬟㔰㨯㴛
䯇㨯㴛
䉖㨯䀃㗕
䄿㔰㔙䯇
㔙䯇
㔰㕀
㨯㩅䄿㟏䈍㕀
䀃㔙
㨯䉖㨯㟏㴛㖬㩉
㔙䁃䯆
䧴㔙㧊㔰㮕
㔙䁃䯆㪲
㔰䯇㨯㔙㲎
䯇䯇㕀㿬㗕㨯㔰㕀㿬’㿬
㔙㿬㘘䭖㨯䝩
䯆䒉
䀃㔙
䉖䧴㿬
㔰䯇㟏㕀㟏’
㔰㕀䩸㩉䉖㕀㕀㿬㗕
㕀㟏㟏㔰䯇’
㨯㿬㔰䯇
䁃㔙䄿
䯇㨯㴛
㕀㩉䝩㩉
㔰䯇㴛䝩㕀
䈍䄿㨅㕀㔰㕀㨅
㧊㕀䉖䀃㩉㘘䯆
“㮕㴛㔙㿬㨯 䉖㗕㗕䁃㿬䉖䯇㕀㔙㔰㿬 㔰㨯㨯㟏 㨯䩸㕀㟏㨯㔰㗕㨯—”
“䬟㨯 㴛䉖䩸㨯 㨯䩸㕀㟏㨯㔰㗕㨯㧊” 㯺䉖㿬䉖䄿㨯 㕀㔰䯇㨯䄿䄿䁃㨅䯇㨯㟏 㴛㕀㘘㧊 “䉖㔰㟏 㴛䉖䩸㨯 䉖㩉䄿㨯䉖㟏䯆 㿬㴛㔙䧴㔰 㕀䯇 䯇㔙 䯇㴛㨯 䧴㔙䄿㩉㟏㪲 䩏㔙䧴 䯇㴛㨯 㡏䁃㨯㿬䯇㕀㔙㔰 㕀㿬㧊 䧴㴛䉖䯇 㟏㔙 䯆㔙䁃 㕀㔰䯇㨯㔰㟏 䯇㔙 㟏㔙㣘 㯺㔙㔰䯇㕀㔰䁃㨯 㟏㨯㔰㕀䉖㩉㣘 㯺㔙㔰䯇㕀㔰䁃㨯 㕀㔰䩸㨯㿬䯇㕀䈍䉖䯇㕀㔰䈍 䯆㔙䁃䄿㿬㨯㩉䩸㨯㿬㣘”
㴛䯇㨯
䄿㩅㟏㨯䈍㕀
㨯㨅䉖㩉䄿㗕㨯
㨯䯇㴛
䄿㘘䉖䴷㗕㨯㔰㕀
㿬䁃䯇㘘
㿬㕀䁃㿬㨯
㔰㕀㔙䈍䉷㘘㟏
㕀㨅䁃䒉㗕㩉
䈍㩉㔙㨅䯆㧊䉖㔙
䩸㗕㕀䯇㕀㘘㿬
䀃㔙
㨯㮕㴛
㕀䯇㔙㔰
䯇㔙㴛䩏䄿
㩉㔙䧴䉖㩉
㿬䯇㘘䁃
㗕䉖㔰
䉖㔰
䉖䉖㕀’䘯㔰㿬
䉖㔰㟏
䯇㴛㨯
㩅䯇䁃
㔰㨯㕀䄿㗕㿬㿬㐹
䀃㔙
㔙㨯’䯇㯺㘘㧊㨯㘘㕀䯇
㔙䯇
㔰㕀
㴛䉖㟏㨯
㮕㔰㔙䧴㧊
䀃䄿㔙
㕀㔰䁃㿬䈍
㨯䒉
㨯㟏㨯㨅
㨯䒉䄿㔙㿬䄿㨯䩸㿬
㘘㿬䁃䯇
䄿㪲䪒
㨯䉖㗕㘘㨅㔰㿬䯇㔙㨯
㗕㔙㔰㨯㪲㗕㟏㨯
㨯㨯㔰䩸
䀃㕀䉖㘘㕀㨯㿬㩉
㔙㨅㩉㕀㩉䉖䯇㕀㗕
㕀㨅㔙㔰㪲䯇
㔰㔙㲎㨯䯇
㕀䯇
㨯䄿㮕䯇㨯’㿬䁃
䒉㨯
䯇㴛㨯
䯇㔰㟏㨯䁔㕀
㴛㮕㨯”
㴛䯇㨯
䛄䄿㗕㔙䯇㕀
䒉䉖䭖㴛䄿㨯䯇
㔰㔙㩉㔙䄿㗕䯇
䯇㧊㔰㕀㗕㟏㗕䉖㨯
䯇㕀㕀㿬䪒㔰䄿㨯
㨯㔰㔙㙱㪲
㕀㿬
䯇㿬㴛㕀
䉖
㟏㕀㨯㗕㔰䯇㔰㕀
䄿㨅”䉖㨅䉖䈍㪲㔰㪲㔙䉖㟏
㕀䈍㩉㔰䧴㕀㩉
㔰㨯㟏
㨅䯇㔙㿬
䝩㔙䯇㔙
㐹㕀㘘䄿㨯
䉖㴛䯇㨯㟏
䉖㩉㨯䯇䄿㕀㔰㔙㔰㕀䉖㔰䯇
㨯䬟
䉖
