“I appreciate your aid and your loyalty,” Robert Jordan said. “I appreciate the difficulty caused by the timing of the blowing of the bridge.” “Don’t talk of that,” El Sordo said. “We are here to do what we can do. But this is complicated.” “And on paper very simple,” Robert Jordan grinned. “On paper the bridge is blown at the moment the attack starts in order that nothing shall come up the road. It is very simple.” “That they should let us do something on paper,” El Sordo said. “That we should conceive and execute something on paper.” “ ‘Paper bleeds little,’ ” Robert Jordan quoted the
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