\u201cI\u2019ll make a call,\u201d says Bertram, metallically, \u201conce I\u2019m in the air. You understand. They\u2019ll let Linus go.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, sir,\u201d says Tom.<\/p>\n
He gives Bertram his best insincere smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo hard feelings,\u201d Bertram says.<\/p>\n
\u201cGold is a soft metal, sir,\u201d says Tom. His grin widens. His teeth are pearly white.<\/p>\n
Bertram nods. He turns to go.<\/p>\n
He walks out.<\/p>\n
He closes the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wicked rotter,\u201d Tom snarls, dropping his cat\u2019s cradle. \u201cJane!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019ll make a call,\u201d says Bertram, metallically, \u201conce I\u2019m in the air. You understand. They\u2019ll let Linus go.\u201d \u201cOf course, sir,\u201d says Tom. He gives Bertram his best insincere smile. \u201cNo hard feelings,\u201d Bertram says. \u201cGold is a soft metal, sir,\u201d says Tom. His grin widens. His teeth are pearly white. Bertram nods. He turns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-4","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Bertram-Gold.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}