Then he spread his pages out on the ground before him and returned to the 
pursuit that had occupied him in his hotel room for the past few days, namely, 
the search for Miranda. He had begun this search at the bidding of Lord 
Finkle-McGraw, pursued it with mounting passion over the last few days as he 
had begun to understand how much he'd been missing Miranda, and was now 
pressing the work desperately; for he had realized that in this search might 
reside the only hope for the salvation of the tens of thousands of Outer
Tribesmen now encamped upon the dead streets of the Pudong Economic Zone.