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"Come on!" Stevie hissed

There was a British Teleco them a vital three-foot start

Stevie took one quick glance around, then hoisted hi one sleeve, threw it up and over the vicious , then used the snagged jacket to haul himself up

Jazz held her breath as Stevie carefully stepped on, then over, the low, dangerous metal fence He looked down at her and sht

They heard him land, and Terence looked at her for a loaded moment This hen they would find out whether the nick was on or not If they heard the noise of barking dogs, running le, they would know to run If there was no sound at all, they would climb

"Bromwell out!" they heard froled with so

"Go," Terence said

Jazz leaped ni sleeve of Stevie's jacket, and hauled herself up She stepped over the low fence atop the wall and juht and co up in a crouch She scanned the area quickly They'd landed a some trees, just as planned, and she saw Stevie's shadow be-neath the canopy a dozen feet away He was staring through the undergrowth and across a ell-htly beside her He'd held on to the jacket sleeve as he ju it over to this side of the wall This was just one of their potential escape routes

There was a plastic box fitted to the wall here, a thick black cable duct protruding froood kick and the cover broke and fell away There was a spaghetti of colored wires inside, junction points and circuit boards, and a knot of wires alh a hole in the wall to the Telecom unit outside

Terence took a pair of heavy pliers fro over his shoulder

"How do you knohich ones to cut?" Jazz asked

"Only one" He snipped a white wire, then took out a small device from his pocket He checked its batteries, turned it on, and nodded in satisfaction when it e fro in a small crocodile clip Terence stripped the cut wire, connected both ends into the unit, and began stripping plastic and attaching clips to other wires in the bundle He worked quickly, al random about this She could see the concentration on his face as he worked

"There," he said after a ive us a bit of time"

He and Jazz knelt beside Stevie Froood view of the side of the large house To the left were the two black cars, but the people who'd been ate, still out of range of the eggs and fruit but for a protective semicircle in case one of the protesters cliht, at the rear of the house, stood a large conservatory with tilass doors were open and there was no arden was spotted with several large flower beds,on fras," Terence said

"Not that we can see," Stevie replied

"They'd have let them out by now," Jazz said

"Conservatory?" Stevie looked from Jazz to Terence, then back at the house

"There'll be other entrances around the back," Terence said "Let's see e get there"

"Harry should be knocking off now," Jazz said, looking at her watch It had been over three dom started their distraction, and if they were not careful they'd still be there when the police arrived Last thing anyone wanted was for theerous they'd ever pulled-- and that called for extreme risks

"I can just see theate Think he's s Maybe he sees the punks that beat hie," Jazz said

"Yeah, Cadge" Stevie did not turn around, but Jazz heard the break in his voice "So let's get our own back," Terence said He was the first tocrouched over to the first planting bed He glanced back quickly, looked around the shrubs, and ran on

Stevie followed, and Jazz brought up the rear

They had considered breaking in at night, but then all the security hts in the garden, s, contact alarms on all the s and doors, motion and heat detectors inside, panic alarms, trip-wire alarms perhaps, and every one of them would be linked directly to the local police station And, perhaps, to the ho in when the mayor was up and about, there had been little choice

Terence reached the ti the conservatory's dall He stretched to look in through the open doors, signaling back that the coast was clear

Harry and the kids let out a final roar, then their voices died out quickly as they left Be safe, Jazz thought There were sirens wailing in the distance, but she knew that the United Kingdo capture

She broke cover first, dashing across the lawn and step-ping lightly through the open doors No alars barked

Stevie was beside her then, crouched do, and through the glass walls of the large conservatory they saw Terence skirt around toward another door farther along the rear of the house

"Take care," Stevie said He gave her a quick smile that reminded her of how it used to be, and for a second she wanted to reach out and touch hiht on his feet that she heard nothing, just saw him dis-appear quickly into the house

This was the erous part of the operation They hoped that the people around the cars would be leav-ing now, instead of co back inside They suspected that the o ho a snooze after a hard day's ca other than their own stealth and talent to get theh the next half hour

Jazz took a quick look around the conservatory and thought, We don't even knohat the hell we're looking for!

The battery, Terence had said So unusual that doesn't belong You'll knohen you see it

There were several huge pots in the conservatory, ho and cruel A bit of furni-ture, a table with a few e unusual