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When Bond got to his rooht His s had been closed and the air-conditioning turned on He switched it off and opened the s halfway and then, with heartfelt relief, took a shower and went to bed He worried for a while about having shown off with the gun, but it was an act of folly which he couldn't undo, and he soon went to sleep to drea a shapeless bundle through dappledred eyes The gnashing white teeth and the crackling bones resolved theht him suddenly awake He looked at the lu beca from behind the curtains Jaun froe of the curtains He pulled theolden hair shone alently, "Quick, James! Help me in!"

Bond cursed softly to hiun down on the carpet and reached for her outstretched hands and half-dragged, half-pulled her over the sill At the last ed shut with a noise like a pistol shot Bond cursed again, softly and fluently, under his breath Mary Goodnight whispered penitently, "I'm terribly sorry, Jaun and put it back under his pillow and led her across the rooht and as a precaution, the shower, and, siasp, reht," and reached for a towel and wound it round his waist and sat down on the edge of the bath He gestured to the girl to sit down on the lavatory seat and said, with icy control, "What in hell are you doing here, Mary?"

Her voice was desperate "I had to coirl at that, er, dreadful place I left the car in the trees down the drive and just sniffed about There were lights on in some of the rooathered you couldn't be in any of them and then I saw the open , and I just someho you would be the only one to sleep with hisopen So I just had to take the chance"

"Well, we've got to get you out of here as quick as we can Anyhat's the trouble?"

"A Most I IIt was to be passed to you at all costs HQ thinks you're in Havana It said that one of the KGB top oes under the name of Hendriks is in the area and that he's known to be visiting this hotel You're to keep away from him They know from A Delicate But Sure Source"--Bond s his other jobs is to find you and, er, well, kill you So I put two and two together, and, ith you being in this corner of the island and the questions you asked ht be already on his track but that you , I mean, that while you were after him, he was after you"

She put out a tentative hand, as if for reassurance that she had done the right thing Bond took it and patted it absent-mindedly while his mind chewed on this new counht as well know, Mary, that Scaraa killed Ross In Trinidad" She put her hand up to her et you out of here, that is As for Hendriks, he's here all right, but he doesn't seem to have identified iven a description of me?"

"You were sient, James Bond' But this doesn't seem to have meant much to Hendriks because he asked for particulars That o days ago He et them cabled or telephoned here at any minute You do see why I had to come, James?"

"Yes, of course And thanks, Mary Now, I've got to get you out of that , and then you must just make your oay Don't worry about ht Besides, I've got help" He told her about Felix Leiter and Nicholson "You just tell HQ you've delivered the e and that I'et the CIA angles froot to his feet

She stood up beside him and looked up at him "But you will take care?"

"Sure, sure" He patted her shoulder He turned off the shower and opened the bathroom door "Now, come on We must pray for a stroke of luck"

A silken voice from the darkness at the end of the bed said, "Well, the Holy Man just ain't running for you today, mister, Step forward both of you Hands clasped behind the neck"