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@@@@@I simply wanted you to know that soon I would no longer be a burden to you ?Do not presume, never with me!? The anger erupted in a hollow cough, a cough that seemed to confirm the rumor that had spread through the dark streets of ParisThe Jackal himself was ill, perhaps deathly ill ?You are our life, our respectWhy should I do that?? ?You just didNevertheless, I have an assignment for you that will ease your woman?s departure for both of youYou will have a holiday in a lovely part of the world, the two of you togetherYou will pick up the papers and the money at the usual place ?Where are we going, if I may ask?? ?To the Caribbean island of MontserratYour instructions will be delivered to you there at the Blackburne AirportFollow them preciselyAgain, if I may ask, what is my objective?? ?To find and befriend a mother and two children ?Then what?? ?Kill them Brendan Prefontaine, former federal judge of the first circuit court of Massachusetts, walked out of the Boston Five Bank on School Street with fifteen thousand dollars in his pocketIt was a heady Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 58 experience for a man who had lived an impecunious existence for the past thirty yearsSince his release from prison he rarely had more than fifty dollars on his personThis was a very special day Yet it was more than very specialIt was also very disturbing because he had never thought for an instant that Randolph Gates would pay him a sum anywhere near the amount he had demanded Gates had made an enormous error because by acceding to the demand he had revealed the gravity of his endeavorsHe had crossed over from ruthless, albeit nonfatal, greed into something potentially quite lethalPrefontaine had no idea who the woman and the children were or what their relationship was to Lord Randolph of Gates, but whoever they were and whatever it was, Dandy Randy meant them no good An irreproachable Zeus-like figure in the legal world did not pay a disbarred, discredited, deniable alcoholic ?scum? like one Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine an outrageous sum of money because his soul was with the archangels of heavenRather, that soul was with the disciples of LuciferAnd since this was obviously the case, it might be profitable for the scum to pursue a little knowledge, for as the bromide declared, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing?frequently more so in the eyes of the beholder than in the one possessing scant tidbits of information, so slanted as to appear many times