The mob smiled in wry amusement. "Who cares what you're called? Just tell us the truth right now-how did it go?"

Lassie shook his head. "I couldn't find it. Just hold her here-don't take any offers as long as she refuses to meet our price. Hell, just keep raising it."

Everyone nodded.

On the other hand, Frank waited until Lassie left and found Jeeves again, saying, "Sir, I really can't tell what you're all trying to achieve here!

"You said you don't want the broad to acquire the street, but she's not. She's just compensating us..."

Jeeves laughed. "You're so naive. This is basically a natural disaster, so why is that broad compensating us and not the government? In the end, she's trying to play a good Samaritan so that she can strong-arm us into selling our property once she's paid us.

"What would people think of us if we don't agree to whatever she's offered? It's obviously emotional blackmail!"

owners were

he said, "That makes sense, but isn't the property here tradeable? I mean, my

but judging from what Jeeves said and how the property owners here were concerned, it

not this location. This land lot

"Why?"

had always said that this was a

"Like a military base?"

exactly! And the commander was an early Renaissance prince, who was said to be corrupt and absolutely wicked. Allegedly, the endless treasures that he embezzled and plundered were

continued, "But that prince ran out of luck when he traveled to the capital. The king had him arrested and

it. Hell, our ancestors didn't notice anything when they arrived, and there was no sign of

caused such a huge fuss for

was that if not

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