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@@@@@ ?Yes, what is it?? asked Ogilvie, returning to the phone ?The machine isn?t working,? said the voice on the sacrosanct line ?What happened?? ?I don?t knowAll I get is a busy signal ?That?s the best equipment availablePerhaps someone was calling in when you called ?I?ve been trying for the past two hoursEven the best machines break down ?All right, send someone up to check it outUse one of the niggersNo white man would go up there Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 250 25 It was shortly past midnight when Bourne got off the m?tro in ArgenteuilHe had divided the day into segments, splitting the hours between the arrangements he had to make and looking for Marie, going from one arrondissement to another, scouting every caf?, every shop, every large and small hotel he could recall having been a part of their fugitive nightmare thirteen years agoMore than once he had gasped, seeing a woman in the distance or across a caf??the back of a head, a quick profile, and twice a crown of dark red hair, any of which from a distance or in a caf??s dim light might have belonged to his wifeNone of these had turned out to be Marie, but he began to understand his own anxiety and, by understanding it, was better able to control itThese were the most impossible parts of the day; the rest was merely filled with difficulty and frustration Alex! Where the hell was Conklin? He could not reach him in Virginia! Because of the time difference, he had counted on Alex to take care of the details, swiftly expediting the transfer of funds, primarilyThe business day on the eastern seaboard of the United States began at four o?clock, Paris time, and the business day in Paris stopped at five o?clock or before, Paris timeThat left barely an hour to release and transfer over a million American dollars to one MrSimon at his chosen bank in Paris, and that meant said MrSimon had to make himself known to the aforementioned, as yet unchosen, Paris bankBernardine had been helpfulHelpful, hell! He had made it possible ?There?s a bank on the rue de Grenelle that the Deuxi?me frequently usesThey can be accommodating in terms of hours and the absence of an authentic signature or two, but they give nothing for nothing, and they trust no one, especially anyone associated with our benevolent socialist governme