Part 68 (1/2)

said everything that you came to say?”

He gave the paper another loud shake. ”I want to knoW

where you get off writing this kind of stuff? Just who do you

think you are anyway?”

”Who do you think you are, Greg Snider?” She stood

now, her desk safely between them. ”First you act like you're

some flarning environmentalist who's totally against all

forms of growth and development, then you and Rick prac-

tically steal Arnold Westerly's farm, and now you want to

turn it into some sort of shoddy development for whatever

rich fools you can lure in here who'd be crazy enough to buy

into such a thing-”

”And now I suppose you think you're going to stop us with

all of your overblown environmental concerns!” He laughed

cynically. ”Well, let me set you straight. n.o.body in Byron

County gives a flying fig about your ridiculous wetland issues-

I already talked to the boys down at the county and they think

what we're doing is just great, thank you very much!”

”So, what exactly is your problem then?”

108Melody Carlson

”My problem is a certain Miss-Know-It-All editor who

can't keep her nose Out of other people's business. And I've

had more than enough of your biased press coverage on TS

Development.”

She forced a saccharine smile to her lips as she spoke to

him in what she knew was a patronizing tone. ”But, unfor-