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    146 CONTINUED: 68. 146 BASHIK (slowly making the connection) The Fountain Gate ..7 Al-Bab al-Sabil. BOBBY That?╟╓s the gate I got out through. Sneaking out, in the middle of the night, under a wagonload of stinking hides. When I was twelve years old. BASHIK Why? BOBBY You tell me why. My Father was the biggest General in the country. They stood him against the Roman wall with two others and shot them all down. In the name of the King. BASHIK (coldly) The King who was four years old? Or the King whom the Generals murdered in the street? BOBBY It don't much matter, kid, because they're not going to have kings anymore. Just the Brass running the place and friends of the Brass. I'm riding back through that gate next week, filthy rich and with a lot of muscle. COLONEL'S VOICE (o.s.?╟≤ mild) I'm afraid we're taking too much of His Majesty's time. Bashlk turns, genuinely shocked at: 147 POV - ON THE COLONEL 147 strolling casually into the SCENE. Kelly's body lies unmoved in the b.g. ten or twelve yards behind. COLONEL I'm not at all sure he's feeling well. Seems to be sinking, rather.