condensed master

The Reluctant Agent
A Compelling Story of Espionage
Will lay prone on the deck as the ship shuddered with the impact, and looking
up he saw the little white dog flying through the air, landing amongst the coiled
rope lines on the bow. Suddenly, the deck crew of the "Wiltshire" were running in
all directions. Will looked over the side, fully expecting the tug to be taking on
water, but apart from a damaged bow everything seemed to be in order and the
little dog could be seen scurrying back towards the wheelhouse, seemingly unhurt.
Divers were sent down to inspect the "Wiltshire's" hull for any damage to
report to Lloyds of London, who would be informed for insurance purposes.
Fortunately, it was quickly ascertained that the ship was not taking in any water
and eventually continued on it's way to berth in Pearl City.
The area surrounding the new berth was largely taken up by US navy vessels.
On taking a short walk ashore, Will soon found out that they were quite close to
the US Forces Pacific Headquarters and on one occasion observed high ranking
officers coming and going to a large colonial style building, nestled amongst lots of
large palm trees.
Getting back to Honolulu to meet Gerald on the following day was more time
consuming by bus, but not problematic. He was there waiting, pacing back and
forth between the palm trees, as before. Will stood for awhile, out of sight
observing him, eventually moving into view to put him out of his misery.
"You damned near put me into a right predicament at the photo shop, why
didn't you organize it better? The whole thing nearly got fouled up!"
"I'm sorry Will, I've done plenty of work through him and things have always
been alright."
"He's doing illegal documents there, isn't he? That's why they got suspicious
of me and were about to get physical. In future, we go places together, so you can
take your share of the heat."
"Look Will, I can assure you that whatever we do from now on we'll do it
together. Let's go some place where we can talk."
They were soon speeding through the Hawaiian countryside again in Gerald's
white coupe and Will settled back into the big comfortable seat. They seemed to
be getting deeper into the countryside with less signs of habitat, the growth was
lush and colourful with African tulips and many other flowers, all intermingled with
fern, Banyan trees, and a Norfolk Pine occasionally towering over the roadway.
At that moment the car pulled into a clearing, and Will recognized immediately
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