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"I don't know!"

"Did you mention he ought to forget all about the Zinter girl, or did that slip your mind too?"

"I did tell him," Scott Hilling whined, "but I don't think he listened to me! What's the world coming to when you can't even get a little respect?"

Klaus Hansen and Paul Bergin returned to the Temple, but not, as it turned out, with their tail between their legs.

"I agreed to see you fellows again," Kim said to them, "but if you act like a couple of high school students and storm out again when you don't get your own way, it will be the last time we ever meet." And Kim was perfectly able to follow through on that threat. Seeing the future, she could simply avoid going anywhere they went.

"It is you, rather, who have one slim chance to reunite the Church," Hansen said with his trademark insufferable arrogance. "Paul and I must get our old jobs back, or the reunion will never come to be. That point is my nonnegotiable."

Kim sighed and turned to her husband. "Will you, Gabriel, resign the office of Deacon?"

"I will not."

Hansen shrugged, said, "You can't push a rope." He prepared once more to leave the office with Bergin, muttering a string of curses that completely obscured what Dory quietly said.

Kim asked Dory to repeat harself.

"I said, I will resign as Apostle of the Church."

Kim opened the Printer's Manuscript of the Green Book once more and penned the following entry: APOSTLE DORIEL SHYBEAR, RESIGNED, JAN. 20, 1943. Dory signed it, and Kim entered her initials. "It's done," Kim said. "The office of Apostle is vacant. Will you, Klaus Hansen, take har place, or is Paul not getting Deacon still a non-negotiable sticking point?"

Klaus turned to Paul and said, "A temporary setback, Paul, nothing more. It will be remedied soon enough." Paul nodded. Then Klaus faced Kim once more. "Very well, Mrs. Shybear, make the appropriate entry."