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The moment arrived when Terry Holt realized that he was simply holding / the bag for Jimenez y Cia. -- Jimenez and Company -- in the city of Manila. / He wasn't getting anywhere, himself. So, painfully, he prepared to wind / up the company's affairs and his own, and start over. It seemed / appropriate to take inventory, consult the police -- they'd been both / amiable and co-operative -- and then make new plans. But first it would be / a good idea to go somewhere else for a while, until the problem / presented by _La Rubia_ and radar and fish and _orejas de ellos_ had / been settled. He was at work on the inventory when the door opened, the / warning-bell tinkled, and the girl came into the shop.
He looked up with a wary eye, glancing over the partition separating the / workshop area in which the merchandise sold by Jimenez y Cia. was / assembled. There were certain people he felt should not come into the / shop. The police agreed with him. He was prepared to throw out anybody / who came either to demand that he build something or else, or to demand / that he not build it or else. In such forcible ejections he would be / backed by the authorities of the city and the Philippine Republic.