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@@@@@?What do you want me to do?? Jason Bourne turned and breathed heavily against the glass window for several moments?and then through the mists of indecision the Chameleon?s strategy became clearHe swung around and looked across the dark street at the stone building on the right?The police are gone,? he said quietly ?Of course, I realize that ?Did you also realize that no one from the other two buildings came outside? Yet there are lights on in a number of the windows ?I was preoccupied, what can I say? I did not notice Bernardine raised his eyebrows in sudden recollection?But there were faces at the windows, several faces, I saw them ?Yet no one came outside ?Very understandablemen with weapons racing aroundBest to barricade oneself, no?? ?Even after the police and the weapons and the patrol cars have left? They all just go back to their television sets as if nothing had happened? No one comes out to check with the neighbors? That?s not natural, Fran?ois; it?s not even unnaturally naturalIt?s been orchestrated ?What do you mean? How?? ?One man walks out on the porch and shouts into a searchlightAttention is drawn to him and precious seconds of a minute?s warning evaporateThen a nun emerges on the other side draping herself in holy indignation?more seconds lost, more hours for CarlosThe assault?s mounted and the Deuxi?me comes up with zeroAnd when it?s all over, everything?s back to normal?an abnormal normalcyA job was done according to a predesigned plan, so there?s no call for really normal curiosity?no gathering in the street, no excitement, not even a collective postcrisis indignationSimply people inside undoubtedly checking with one anotherDoesn?t it all tell you something?? Bernardine nodded?A prearranged strategy carried out by professionals,? said the veteran field officer ?That?s what I think, too Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 270 ?It?s what you saw and I did not,? countered Bernardine?Stop being kind, J