\u201cThat is in fact what I meant to ask,\u201d concedes Tom.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not just an ordinary letter,\u201d says Jane. \u201cIt is a confession!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat could Bertram possibly<\/em> have left to confess?\u201d Edmund asks.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently,\u201d says Jane, \u201cMaria, our lovable space princess assassin nanny, is under orders to murder us all if Bertram has not forwarded a complete payment to certain interests by \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n She checks her watch.<\/p>\n \u201c. . . Thirty-seven seconds ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Linus reaches over to Mouser, who had treed himself several hours ago and accordingly become an impromptu part of the meeting of the Doom Team. He picks up the cat. He puts the cat on his lap. He strokes it.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, Mouser,\u201d whispers Linus. \u201cPlace not your trust in humanity. It will betray you every time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt explains further,\u201d didacts Jane, \u201cthat originally he bankrupted us because he didn\u2019t want them to kill \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n She looks apologetic.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, three of us,\u201d she says, and Linus\u2019 lips tighten. \u201cBut then he decided that he\u2019d really rather spend the money on fun times and fast women \u2014 I think he must mean cars \u2014 but he had pangs of guilt anyway. So he had to write this letter explaining how it was all our fault.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cReally,\u201d says Edmund Gulley.<\/p>\n \u201cTruly,\u201d answers Jane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThat is in fact what I meant to ask,\u201d concedes Tom. \u201cIt is not just an ordinary letter,\u201d says Jane. \u201cIt is a confession!\u201d \u201cWhat could Bertram possibly have left to confess?\u201d Edmund asks. \u201cApparently,\u201d says Jane, \u201cMaria, our lovable space princess assassin nanny, is under orders to murder us all if Bertram has not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3834","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\/02\/Bertram-Full.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}