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Remo tried mixing a sliver of duck with a few grains of rice.

"We don't have final proof, but we believe that someone is raiding America for slaves."

Perhaps if Remo washed down the duck and the rice with warm water. Maybe that would improve it.

"In the last year, several wealthy young girls from branches of the Lippincott family have met violent deaths. Or at least we thought they had. But now we have found out that the girls did not really die. In their coffins there were other bodies. We believe someone is somehow smuggling these girls out of the country to Africa, as slaves. Sort of a reverse slavery."

Remo turned the water faucet on hot and filled a glass. He sipped it and that didn't help either.

"Reverse slavery?" he asked.

"Yes," Smith said. "Blacks taking whites."

"Doesn't sound reverse to me," said Remo. "It's slavery."

"Correct," Smith said. "It's just that historically, whites took blacks."

"Only an idiot lives in history," said Remo repeating something Chiun had once told him and which he had never understood.

"Right," Smith said. "It's really a rather simple sort of operation. Get into Busati, find out what happened to the missing Lippincott, free the girls, and get out."

"Why not do it through the government?"

"We can't," Smith said. "Our sources indicate that General Obode, the President of Busati, is somehow behind this. If we try to approach him directly, he'll just kill the girls. No. We've got to get them freed first. Then our government can deal with Obode, and he can't lie his way out."

"Can I kill Obode?"

Smith shook his head. "Too risky. He's a nut, but he's our nut. Killing him might cause us real problems in that part of the world."

"You say your sources say that Obode's in it. How good are your sources?" Remo said.

"Impeccable," Smith said. "CIA type sources."

"Do your sources know where the girls are?"

"No. All we've heard is that there's a white house with an iron gate in the capital city of Busati."

"You don't know though, right?"

"Correct."

"And you don't know how the girls are being kidnapped, right?"

"Correct."

"And you were trying to get me fixed up with Lippincott, but you didn't tell me you were doing it, right?"

"Right," said Smith.