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"The Roacherian Effect" A novel by John C. Delavan
Epilogue
Mr. and Mrs. Lee were shocked when they received a bank draft from Bert Johnson, whom they didn't know, who worked for a company called Dutchman Security, Inc. that they'd never heard of. Skipper was aware that the damage done to their hotel by Choi and Pak's other henchmen would hurt the Lee family financially. They had insisted he not pay for anything, including the bill for the suite, because he was Master Lee's friend and senior student. To do so would have caused them to lose face. Skipper had tacked a fee for the repairs onto his bill to Intertech, then had Bert send the Lee's a draft in an amount that would allow them to repair everything and add a new wing to the small hotel as well. When it was pointed out to them that Intertech (unbeknownst to the company) had generously offered to cover their loss they were able to accept graciously.
Skipper soon received an invitation to the wedding of Niko Yamaguchi and Yoshi Nakagawa. Skipper decided to take a very special carving set to Japan as a wedding gift.
From his own collection Skipper selected a hand forged Damascus carving set with Indian Sambar Stag handles and nickel-silver guards. The set had been made by custom bladesmith J.C. Delavan. Thinking of Yoshi Skipper recalled that although Yoshi's handgun collection was small, it was excellent. His small knife collection, however, was mundane at best.
As a special gift for Yoshi he chose another J.C. Delavan knife. This one was a special fighting Bowie and was hand forged from a special, secret steel and it was appointed with brass quillions and Canvas Micarta handle.
George Willoughby received a call from Bert the day after Skipper's crash, letting him know Bert had borrowed the plane he kept at Big Bear. Within the week Bert called him again explaining the demise of the airplane and what had been done about it. George hollered for his wife Maggie and the two left for Big Bear within the hour to see the new plane Skipper had replaced theirs with.
"Mr. Mason," George would say later, "any time you want to go wrecking this one, you come right ahead on. So long as you do like you did this time." The replacement was a new Beechcraft Baron Model 58 with all the bells and whistles and worth roughly six times the cash value of the $109,000 plane Skipper crashed near Gem Lake.
Phillip Weston "died" in a tragic skiing accident and was buried a week after the meeting in Skipper's cabin. Roger Yates, who bore a striking resemblance to Phillip, took charge of designing and building the communications system for Skipper's new company and soon became an indispensable part of the team. Before long his former life and Dr. Roach seemed like no more than a bad dream he'd had long, long ago.
The dreams of Alexi, huddled in the crippled helicopter near Gem Lake, were known to no man. Alexi was frozen solid. His body wouldn't be found for nearly two more months. Gregori's body had disappeared altogether, as unprotected food sources often do in the wild.