I would face the music. My two weeks of house arrest went peacefully. The plain cement-block house had been built for my father at our port camp of Mina Saud when he lived in the Neutral Zone in 1953. The Emir’s identical house was a few steps away. My father’s favorite maple sugar was still in the fridge.

had lived in a Spartan trailer in the Neutral Zone, like the rest of the senior staff, when | stayed at our Wafra oil field rather than the house at Mina Saud. We and the market had liked them fine. Herschel Shelton had been one of my father’s right-hand men during the conversion to trailers. He said that