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Beige, second shade. I have it.
Good. See you later. If Emile hadn't had the proper shade, then I would have
had Stefan put on the one
in the backseat, but the less I asked of Stefan the better.
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"You're early, Uncle Chris. Stefan slipped into the front seat.
I pulled out of the drive and turned south, toward the club.
I didn't say anything.
"If I could ask, Stefan finally said, "what do you have in mind?"
"You need more credits. I need a favor. It's that simple.
"Uncle Chris& I don't know about that kind of favor.
I laughed. "It's not that kind of favor. You know who Emile Brazelton is,
don't you? He was in the office
when you were there a couple of weeks ago.
"Yes& 
Stefan was definitely wary.
"You know he had problems, and we bailed him out. He's excellent at managing
and developing
technology. He just didn't have the capital. Or the contacts. He's also a good
man at heart, but he had
personal problems. They got in the way. Well& his first wife is vindictive.
He's not allowed to see his
son, but his son wants to see him. There's a Justiciary order out. That means
they can use the footage
from the recsats.
Stefan looked puzzled. That was good.
"You can help him see the boy for a couple of hours. There are two singlesuits
in the back. You put on
the maintenance suit over your own. I'll drop you off under the trees at the
club, just inside the gates. You
walk to the shelter at number three carrying the tool kit that's on the floor.
You wait there. When we get
there, you peel off the maintenance suit and put on Emile's sweater.
It's loud and striped. You play fourteen holes with me, and then on seventeen
we meet Emile, and you
switch at the rain shelter there.
"That's it? How do I get back?"
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"That's it. As for getting back, you walk back to the trees where I let you
off and you take off the suit
under the trees when no one's looking, fold it up so the logo doesn't show,
and put it under your arm.
Then you walk to the club and ask me for a ride. Don't explain. Just say that
you saw me and thought
you could save yourself some time.
He nodded.
"This will allow Emile to see his son. That means he'll be feeling better.
He'll be thinking about the job,
and not about the unfairness of not seeing his boy. You've done him a favor,
and you've done me a favor.
You know that I always pay off favors.
Stefan looked doubtful, but not that doubtful.
"If it were your mother& and some judge had ruled she couldn't see you,
wouldn't you want to see her
every so often?" I laughed. "It's in the middle of the morning.
"That's it?"
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"That& and you don't tell anyone, because it could get Emile in trouble.
I could see Stefan figuring that he could leverage that into more credits. But
he'd wait to try that. By then,
it wouldn't matter.
"You do this right, and we'll take care of your loan the way it should have
been handled.
"How is that?" Stefan was more curious than snotty.
"I buy the note. It becomes a note to me, and I immediately forgive half of
it, and give you the first year
interest-free. Then, we'll see how you're doing.
He wanted more than that, but he also wouldn't have believed it if I'd given
more. This way, he had the
credits, and a year to spend them before trying to get more out of me. He'd
take that.
"I appreciate that, Uncle Chris.
I laughed. "You need to get into that suit. I pulled the electral over to the
side of the road, under some
overhanging elms, already leafing out, so that he could climb in back. Once he
was in the back, I pulled
out again.
"You could have had Armand do this, Stefan ventured as he struggled into the
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maintenance suit. "Why
me?"
"He's a permie. What would happen if he ran into someone? Or if someone asked
him what he was
doing?"
"That's true.
"Family's always the best, I pointed out. "I want to help you, but I don't
want you to think I don't want
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