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found the address for that number, and it’s the number of your friend’s college
roommate. And that roommate has a vacation home on an island up there. And the
power has just been turned on for that vacation home. So he thinks that’s where she
may have gone, and, as I’m sure you can see, he furthermore thinks that if he can
track her that well, at his remove, then her husband is likely to be even faster at it.”
“Shit.” Frank’s feet were cold.
“Shit indeed. Possibly you should warn her. I mean, if she thinks she’s hidden
herself—”
“Yeah, sure,” Frank said, thinking furiously. “But another thing—if her ex could find
her, couldn’t he find me too?”
“Maybe so.”
They regarded each other.
“We have to neutralize this guy somehow,” Frank said.
Edgardo shook his head. “Do not say that, my friend.”
“Why not?”
“Neutralize?” He dragged out the word, his expression suddenly black. “Eliminate?
Remove? Equalize? Disable? DX? Disappear? Liquidate?”
“I don’t mean any of those,” Frank explained. “I just meant neutralize. As in, unable
to affect us. Made neutral to us.”
“Hard to do,” Edgardo said. “I mean, get a restraining order? You don’t want to go
there. It doesn’t work even if you can get them.”
“Well?”
“You may just have to live with it.”
“Live with it? With what?”
Edgardo shrugged. “Hard to say right now.”
“I can’t live with it if he’s trying to harm her, and there’s a good chance of him
finding her.”
“I know.”
“I’ll have to go find her first.”
Edgardo nodded, looking at him with an evaluative expression. “Maybe so.”



AT THE QUIBLERS’ HOUSE IN BETHESDA this unsettled winter, things
were busier than ever. This was mainly because of Phil Chase’s election, which of
course had galvanized his Senatorial office, turning his staff into one part of a much
larger transition team.
A presidential transition was a major thing, and there were famous cases of failed
transitions by earlier administrations that were enough to put a spur to their rears,
reminding them of the dire consequences that ineptitude in this area could have on
the subsequent fates of the presidents involved. It was important to make a good
running start, to craft the kind of “first hundred days” that had energized the
incoming administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, setting the model for
most presidents since to try to emulate. Critical appointments had to be made, bold
new programs turned into law.
Phil was well aware of this challenge and its history, and was determined to meet it
successfully. “We’ll call it the First Sixty Days,” he said to his staff. “Because
there’s no time to lose!” He had not slowed down after the election; indeed it
seemed to Charlie Quibler that he had even stepped up the pace, if that was possible.
Ignoring the claim of irregularities in the Oregon vote—claims which had become