"It was once worth coming down right here simply to see you with that paper in your hand. " Richard said nothing. Borg and Richard had known each other for fifteen years. They had labored collectively as cub journalists for the economic part of a morning paper. Maybe it was once a query of chemistry, however the foundation had been laid there for a lifelong enmity. In Richard 's eyes, Borg had been a third-rate reporter and a difficult individual who aggravated every person round him with crass jokes and made disparaging remarks about the extra experienced, older reporters. He appeared to dislike the older girl reporters in particular. They had their first quarrel, then others, and anon the antagonism became personal. Over the years, they had run into each other regularly, however it was

