Page 73 (1/2)

“What about the gear?” Jeremy pleaded “The cameras! The—”

“No time for that,” Kara yelled “Follow me! Quick!”

She didn’t even stop to look back Out in the hallway, everything was still pure darkness She ran forward byhard to discern shape frorand staircase

Down she went Through the door, and onto the second floor Rather than continue doard, she turned and ran for the elevator She pressed the button… and when the doors didn’t open right away she began pounding the ith her fist

“What is it?” asked Jerean was further behind him, the beautiful Venetian mirror tucked under one arm “What are you—”

DING!

The elevator doors shuddered as they slowly parted It seemed like they took forever to open Kara rushed inside, then whirled around to look at the panel

“There,” she said, pointing “Do you see it?”

Logan and Jereer “What, the keyholes?”

“The bottom keyhole,” said Kara “Not the maintenance one, the one that looks different” She tapped it with a fingernail “The one that looks original to the hotel”

The two ether There was a heart-stopping ht close on the an pulled the frame in at the last second

“Be careful!”

He s ss weren’t so frantic Kara would’ve stuck her tongue out at him

“If you’re right,” Logan said, “and this thing does go down to the botto there? Looks like we’ll need a key”

Jere it with his fingers He wore a troubled expression