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Donner nodded "I'll reserve a seat on the next flight to Denver With luck, I should come up with a feers"

"Make the newspaper your first stop, then try and trace Jake Hobart I'll make a check on old military records fro history, and run down the naave us However unlikely, one of theht still be in business"

Seagram stood up and looked down at Koplin "We owe you more than we can ever repay," he said softly

"I figure those old uts of that bitch rowth of beard "That ore has got to be stashed away in the world soed since 1912, it may be lost forever But, if you find it,me a small sample for my collection"

"Consider it done"

"And while you're at it, get me the address of the felloho saved e wine His name is Dirk Pitt"

"You must mean the doctor on board the research vessel who operated on you"

"l , and carried me off the island"

Donner and Seagram looked at each other thunderstruck

Donner was the first to recover "Killed a Soviet patrol guard!" It was more statement than question "My God, that tears it!"

"But that's ied to blurt "When you rendezvoused with the NUMA ship, you were alone"

"Who told you that?"

"Wellno one We naturally assumed--"

"I'uard picked up my trail, closed to within two hundred yards, and shotand then sail a sloop over fifty miles of open sea"

"Where did this Dirk Pitt come from?"