{"id":29226,"date":"2025-10-17T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29226"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:48:32","slug":"29226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29226","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the three men watching him from afar knew nothing of that; they only saw appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas approached first with the overconfidence of someone who thinks he knows everything. He was 34 years old and had been selling trucks for two years. He thought that made him an expert at reading people. \u201cExcuse me, sir,\u201d he said condescendingly. \u201cThese trucks are for customers by appointment only. If you want general information, we have brochures at the entrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don F\u00e9lix looked at him leisurely.<\/p>\n<p>His gray eyes, deep as ancient wells, held the young salesman\u2019s gaze.<\/p>\n<p>Then he spoke in a calm but firm voice. \u201cI\u2019m going to take five Mercedes trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The silence lasted barely a second before Lucas burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29227\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the three men watching him from afar knew nothing of that; they only saw appearances. Lucas approached first with the overconfidence of someone who thinks he knows everything. He was 34 years old and had been selling trucks for two years. He thought that made him an expert at reading people. \u201cExcuse me, sir,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29226\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29237,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29226\/revisions\/29237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}