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@@@@@Old men?weather-beaten, old, old men who could barely move?staring at him! Now he was allowing his imagination to run away with him-the cities were filled with the homeless, with perfectly harmless people whose psychoses or poverty drove them into the streetsAs much as he would like to help them, there was nothing he could do but professionally badger an unresponsive WashingtonThere was another! In an indented space between two storefronts barricaded by iron gates-he, too, was watching himStop it! You?re being irrationalOr was he? Of course, he wasGo on, keep to the schedule, that?s what you?re supposed to doGood God! There?s anotherKeep going! The vast moonlit grounds of the Smithsonian dwarfed the two figures as they converged from intersecting paths, joining each other and proceeding to a benchConklin lowered himself with the aid of his cane while Mo Panov looked around nervously, listening, as if he expected the unexpectedIt was 3:28 in the predawn morning, the only noises the subdued rattle of crickets and mild summer breezes through the treesGuardedly Panov sat down ?Anything happen on the way here?? asked Conklin ?I?m not sure,? replied the psychiatrist?I?m as lost as I was in Hong Kong, except that over there we knew where we were going, whom we expected to meet ?You?re contradicting yourself, Mo,? said Alex, smiling?You told me I was cured Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 26 ?Oh, that? That was merely obsessive manic-depression bordering on dementia praecoxThis is nuts! It?s nearly four o?clock in the morningPeople who aren?t nuts do not play games at four o?clock in the morning Alex watched Panov in the dim wash of a distant Smithsonian floodlight that illuminated the massive stone structure?You said you weren?t sureWhat does that mean?? ?I?m almost embarrassed to say?I?ve told too many patients that they invent uncomfortable images to rationalize their panic, justify their fears ?What the hell does that mean?? ?It?s a form of transference?? ?Come on, Mo!? interrupted Conklin?What bothered you? What did you see?? ?Figures some bent over, walking slowly, awkwardly?not like you, Alex, incapacitated not by injuries but by