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The search engine promptly displayed two articles The first was from a corporate report on the history of the co accidentsa power boat race and Giacomo in an explosion, control of the company passed to their father’s brother Antonio The second was an article on a fan website devoted to European power boating history titled “A Sad End to 1967”
She opened the document
Scrolling down, she skihout 1967, changes in engine placement and materials until she reached an account from one of the witnesses of the race that had killed Master Giacomo’s brother
“Nico,” he whispered, his voice a breath away from a sob
Sa him her silent comfort while she continued to scroll doith the other hand, reading the web site’s summary of subsequent events
Although the investigation ruled the accident that killed Nico Bravetti was a tragedy caused by unsafe speed and his detero Valente, his brother Giacon had been partially to bla to confront Middlemarch with his suspicions when they were both killed, the result of a faulty hose in the engine compartment of Middlemarch’s yacht Bravetti’s yacht was tied up just a few slips down and Middle down the dock when he heard theh neither Jason nor Pauline Middlemarch remembered the explosion that killed Jeffrey and Giacomo, they survived because they were in the water when the fireball swept over them Jason’s arms bore bruises in the size and shape of a ators speculated that Bravetti’s final act, rather than diving into the water himself, had been to throw both Jason and Pauline to safety Middlemarch, aboard the yacht when it bleas killed instantly
“Oh God How horrible!” she whispered
He reached past her and closed the bro Operating on autopilot, Sa to the library’s main screen
That’s how he’d died He’d spent the decades since then wondering if his sacrifice had been in vain, if his heroic efforts to save Jason and Pauline Middleine what itand not know if it orth it No wonder he’d been scared of what he ht find
“Come on Let’s pick up the printout of Jason’s article Then I can take you home”
Master Giacomo nodded silently He followed her as she picked up and paid for her printout then out to the car
Once they were seated inside and belted in, rather than put the key in the ignition and start the engine, she twisted to face him “I’m sorry about your brother”
“Nico was a good man Many people ca breaths then stiffened his shoulders and turned to look her in the eye “Jeffrey knew his design was flawed and he let Nico drive his boat in the second heat with no warning He bragged to me that it didn’t matter, because nobody would ever be able to prove it”
She felt the blood draining out of her face, leaving her cold and frozen “What are you saying?”
“The fault in his engine hose was a sas vapors escape I know because I put it there”