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“Eventually,” he said, “one of the people back there is going to start thinking about collecting the twenty-thousand piaster reward and the gold medal the VC gives out for a dead American.”

"It is time for the 5 piaster loaf to increase in price," Sisi said at the opening of a food production plant.

“Don’t tell Orr I gave it to you. I charged him two piasters for his.”

Peewee paid them three hundred piasters, about three dollars, for four bottles of the hair stuff and the feet stuff.

He found a pouch of rice, a comb, a fingernail clipper, a few soiled piasters, a snapshot of a young woman standing in front of a parked motorcycle.