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"The usual Never satisfied with their acco, you know"

"Yeah, I know"

"You'd better go aft and see abouttheir wait enjoyable"

"For God's sake, how?"

"Tell them jokes"

Giordino gave Pitt a sour look and mumbled dryly to hi light

Pitt checked his watch once yun and the final act of the salvage had settled down to a routine Sandecker and Gunn were bent over the radio pestering Farquar on the Capricorn, now fifty miles to the west, for the latest news on Hurricane Aht se stove

As Pitt entered, they had all looked up expectantly When at last he spoke, his voice was unnaturally soft in the unnatural quiet that was broken only by the huentleht the short coffee break would reconstitute your sagging sinews"

"Cut the satire," Spencer snapped, his voice taut with irritation "You call us all up here and then make us sit around for half an hour when there is work to do What's the story?"

"The story is siis will drop his helicopter on board one last time before the storm strikes With the exception of Giordino and myself, I would like all of you, and that includes you, Admiral, to return with him to the Capricorn "

/>"Aren't you out of your depth, Pitt," Sandecker said in an unemphatic tone

"To soht thing"

"Explain yourself" Sandecker glowed like a piranha about to gulp a goldfish He was playing his role to the hilt It was an epic job of typecasting

"I have every reason to believe the Titanic hasn't the structural strength left to weather a hurricane"

"This old tub has taken more punishment than any man-reat seer of the future, Dirk Pitt, predicts the old girl will throw in the sponge and sink at the first blow from a lousy storm"