"All I can do is order him again," Graham said.
"No. That's not all you can do."
"You want me to go down there?"
"I want to know who Galahad and Cavalry are. I don't care how you find out."
"It's that important?"
"Yeah, it is," Donovan said simply. "If J. Edgar Hoover beats me to the President on this, it will hurt us badly."
"And the reverse is true, right? That's what this is all about? Your little war with Hoover?"
"Just find out who Galahad and Cavalry are, Alex. OK?"
Graham looked at him for a moment, then walked out of the office.
[FOUR]
Bachelor Officers' Quarters
2035th U.S. Army Air Corps Support Wing
Porto Alegre, Brazil
1930 IB April 1943
"I'm really going to miss her," Captain Maxwell Ashton said as Consuelo drove off in her cousin's Fiat, leaving Ashton, Clete, and Enrico standing on the side-walk in front of what before the war had been The Gran Hotel de Porto.
"I can understand that," Clete said.
"I seriously considered asking her to spend the night. With a little bit of luck, you would have been caught sneaking across the border and tossed in a cell. I hope you realize, mi Mayor, what a sacrifice I am making for the com-mon good."
"Your devotion to duty is inspiring, Capitan Ashton," Clete said.
"I know, I know. It's another character flaw I can't seem to get rid of. Come on in, mi Mayor, we'll get you a room, and then you can meet the team. The go-rilla's all excited about meeting a genuine hero face-to-face."
"Por favor, Capitan, kiss my ass."
The Army Air Corps technical sergeant who was the Bachelor Officers' Quar-ters manager was polite but firm; he could not assign a room to anybody who didn't have orders.
"These gentlemen are with me," Ashton said. "Colonel Wallace arranged for our quarters."
"They still have to have orders," the Air Corps sergeant said.
A telephone call was made to Colonel Wallace's office. He had gone for the day, and it was necessary to establish contact with him at the bar of the Officers' Club on the Navy base.
"Colonel Wallace."
"This is Major Frade, Sir."
"I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow, Major."
"I got in a little early, Sir."
"Come to my office at twelve hundred tomorrow."
"I'm at the BOQ, Sir. Two of us are."