A wealthy widow asks Paladin to locate her granddaughter, the long- lost product of an "unacceptable" marriage whose participants have both died tragically. She has a specific young lady in mind, whose upcoming betrothal was mentioned in a small-town paper, a badly faded photograph, and some sketchy family details.
Paladin arrives at the outskirts of a town bearing the curious name of Jehovah, locates the girl ( suitably re-christened) and learns she was "bought" as child by a Bible-touting Patriarch who raised her to care for him and his son. Paladin displays some interesting gifts here, including, in addition to fluency in Armenian; a mastery of hypnotism and considerable prowess in Capoeira -- "Brazilian" style jujitsu, in this case performed sans the traditional music.
The girl puts on a fine display of the temper she inherited from her Irish father, the betrothal becomes a casualty of True Love, and when everything is suitably settled, we are left with only one question.
With all the well-earned "fees" Paladin declines, drastically reduces, or simply gives away, how on earth does he support his alter-ego's lifestyle?
Paladin arrives at the outskirts of a town bearing the curious name of Jehovah, locates the girl ( suitably re-christened) and learns she was "bought" as child by a Bible-touting Patriarch who raised her to care for him and his son. Paladin displays some interesting gifts here, including, in addition to fluency in Armenian; a mastery of hypnotism and considerable prowess in Capoeira -- "Brazilian" style jujitsu, in this case performed sans the traditional music.
The girl puts on a fine display of the temper she inherited from her Irish father, the betrothal becomes a casualty of True Love, and when everything is suitably settled, we are left with only one question.
With all the well-earned "fees" Paladin declines, drastically reduces, or simply gives away, how on earth does he support his alter-ego's lifestyle?
