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he'd be all right.
 Nothing is out of their range, Buck said, putting distance between them and
the stadium. Most traffic, emergency and otherwise, headed toward instead of
away from Kollek Stadium now. Roadblocks kept many civilian cars at bay as GC
vehicles tried to get through. Buck was virtually ignored going the other
direction.
 If they're after you, Tsion, we don't dare go back to Chaim's.
 I cannot think of a safer place, Tsion said.  Carpathia will not threaten me
there.
Your wife was brilliant. She figured it out before it happened. She saw the
guards coming for me, but she didn't like their looks.
 They were pressing their earpieces hard against their ears, Chloe said,
 while releasing the safety locks on their weapons. I figured Carpathia or
Fortunato told them to get revenge on Tsion and do it in the middle of a crowd
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so it would look like an accident. They got so close that I heard one tell the
supreme commander where we were.
 I'm still worried about Jacov, Buck said.
 He was resourceful, Chloe said.  He jogged through the tunnel near us,
saying, 'I'm looking for familiar faces to follow me quickly to safety.' We
stepped out from a utility room and"

 I immediately saw the mark on his forehead, Tsion said.  Praise the Lord!
You must tell us later what happened.
Chloe continued,  He said you were bringing the van to the underground exit.
He peeked out and saw the guards at the top of the ramp, then said he would
create a diversion and we should follow twenty seconds later. He backed up and
ran, bursting through that door!
 It worked, Buck said,  because he even distracted me. I didn't see you get
in the van.
 Nobody saw us, Chloe said.  Oh!
 What?
 Nothing, she said, hissing.
 What, Chlo'? Are you all right?
 Just not used to running, she said.
 Nor am I, Tsion said.  And I would like to get off this floor as soon as it
is safe, too.
 You cannot keep her here, Leah told Dr. Charles.  It's impossible. I'm
sorry. We could try to sneak her into a room, and I know it would be better
for her, but if you think you'll ever need this facility or my help again,
you'd better get her out of here now.
 Give me another sedative then, Floyd said.  I want her out before we go.
Hattie slept all the way to the safe house, and Dr. Charles put her to bed
near the
TV, where they were quickly brought up to date on the activity in Jerusalem.
 His
Excellency the potentate, Nicolae Carpathia, will address the world in twenty
minutes, the announcer said.  As most of you saw on live television in the
Eastern
Hemisphere and many saw on an Internet hookup that covered the rest of the
globe, an attempt to poison His Excellency was foiled. The potentate is
healthy, though shaken, and wishes to assure global citizens he is all right.
We expect his remarks may also cover what sort of retribution he might exact
from the perpetrators of the attempt on his life.
The journalist in Buck wished he was still at the stadium. He would have loved
to have seen how long Mac kept Carpathia, Fortunato, and the clownish Mathews
in the air while giving Tsion a chance to escape. He wished he could see for
himself the water and blood on the stage and ask eyewitnesses if anyone saw
the two from the Wailing Wall come or go.
He had learned not to baby Chloe; she was as brave and strong as he was. But
she was also carrying their child, and she had been through a horrible
physical ordeal that had left her wounded. This trauma couldn't have been good
for her.
Buck was relieved to see Israeli rather than GC guards at Chaim's gates.
Admittedly, it was this same force that had been behind the massacre of
Tsion's family and the chasing of him from his homeland. But now he was here
as Chaim's guest, and Chaim was just short of deity in Israel.
As soon as they were inside, a pale, trembling Chaim greeted them with
embraces and demanded to know where Jacov was. Buck left the explaining to
Tsion, knowing Chaim would need assurances that his protege had not planned
the disgracing of Carpathia.  You assured me you would remain neutral, Chaim
said.
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 Otherwise I would not have urged him to attend.
 You knew he was coming and did not tell me? Tsion said.
 He wanted an element of surprise. Surely you must have expected him.
 I had hoped he would wait until tomorrow or the next night. You should have
prepared me.
 You appeared more than prepared.
Tsion sat wearily.  Chaim, the man interrupted the quoting of Scripture. It
was as if he had planned his entrance for the worst possible instant. I am
going to hold you to your promise to hear me out, and very soon. I am not up
to it this evening, but as a brilliant and reasonable man, you will not be
able to refute the evidence I have for
Jesus as Messiah and Carpathia himself as Antichrist.
Rosenzweig settled into a large, soft chair and sighed heavily.  Tsion, you
are as a son to me. But what you just said could get you killed.
 How well I know!
 Of course, and I am still grieved and heartbroken over your losses. But to
come to
Israel to proclaim the deity of Jesus is as foolhardy as those troublemakers
at the
Wall playing tricks with our water and our weather. And, Tsion, calling
Nicolae the
Antichrist when he is visiting the Holy City is the height of arrogance and
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