A Korean Tiger

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"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow."

More than once during his brief stay at the lodge, Nick Carter found himself repeating the lines from Yeats' gem-like little poem. He had not yet, he admitted somewhat dourly, planted nine bean rows. He wasn't about to, either; not with Peg Tyler along. It had been a mistake to bring Peg. But then it was a mistake he kept making over and over again. Peg had been his first love, and he had been her one and only love, and neither of them had quite gotten over it. Not that anything would ever come of the liaison. Killmaster's profession, and natural restlessness, precluded that. In addition, Peg was quite contentedly married to a nice guy with a lot of money. They had two half-grown children whom Peg worshipped; the soft glow of affection she gave to her husband; but the hot glow of passion and love she reserved for Nick Carter. She saw the man from AXE very infrequently — about once every two to three years. Perhaps it was only natural that when she did see him she came close to devouring him.

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