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If there was any financially oriented figure of speech that applied, it was that war—at least the kind of battles Starbuck and his kind had to fight—was the gaming pot with each side anteing and raising until one displayed the winning hand.

But getting back to the time Miss Starbuck was killed, Claudia Barnum was alone with Miss Starbuck for a time, so was Starbuck, of course.

This was, of course, Silicon Valley, home of slackers and hackers, and it wasn't unusual to stop in Starbucks for a vente skim latte and be waited on by a polite teenager with a dozen body piercings, a shaved head and an outfit like inner-city gangsta's.

He shared, Gillian knew, the public's conviction that Surgeon Starbuck was a secret drunkard, a cocaine addict, and thrice a murderer.

Starbuck was a drunkard and a dope fiend, as he seems to have been,”.

Starbuck had been for years the secret head the master-mind of a dope ring.

Without their generous help, Henry would have ended up working at Starbucks.

A moment or two passed, when Starbuck, going forward, pushed against some one.

Washington Faulconer was already feeling cheated because his stay in Gordonsville had been cut short, but now all the bitterness over his traitor son and his resentments over Starbuck and the mulish manner in which the Brigade reacted to his simplest orders fed the bitter torrent.

Then, as I was being offered condolences by my father's dental assistants and by Bill Starbuck, the aged town doctor, and by an old high school buddy who'd just lost his own father, and I saw in their eyes the pain they felt and thought I was feeling, the pain of the loss of a father--rather than my feelings for my particular father-- then I really sobbed, recalling the good golf games, swept by guilt that I had been cool to him the last tune, with Jill, and that I'd missed the diagnosis: the hiatus hernia pain was not his stomach but his heart--one clue in hindsight being the astonishing fact of his quitting golf before the eighteenth hole--and maybe I could have saved him if I had been a better real doctor.

If the hospital train did not move soon, then every sick man in the cars would be dead, and so the Reverend Starbuck dis-covered an engineer colonel who appeared to possess some authority over the railroad and of whom he demanded to know when the trains would be cleared north.

The left four companies had Sergeant Howes, now a Lieutenant, in command of E, a Captain Leighton, who had been borrowed from Haxall's Arkansas regiment to command Company F, Captain Davies took over Medlicott's old Company G, and Truslow, whom Starbuck had insisted on promoting into a full Captain, was in charge of Company H.

Starbuck ordered, then ran northward to find Lieutenant Howes, Sergeant Tyndale, and Captain Leighton.

Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection of manuscript material.

It was Starbuck who had humiliated him at Manassas, Starbuck who had suborned Adam, and Starbuck who had defied him by remaining in the Legion.