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"We were looking in the wrong place"

"Oh, Christ," he groaned "That tears it Damn No doubt at all?"

"Not in my mind"

"Hang on"

Sandecker picked out a cigar froh the trade eo with Cuba had been lifted in 1985, he still preferred the milder flavor and looser wrap of a Honduras over the Havana He always felt that a good cigar kept the world at bay He blew out a rolling cloud and came back on the line "Dirk"

"Still here"

"What do I tell the President?"

There was silence Then Pitt spoke slowly and distinctly "Tell him the odds have dropped from

a million to one to a thousand to one"

"You found so?"

"I didn't say that"

"Then what are you working on?"

"Nothing "

"What do you need from me?" asked Sandecker

"Please get ahold of Heidi Milligan She's staying at the Gra into old railroad archives for any maps that sho York & Quebec Northern Railroad tracks, sidings aivd spurs between Albany and the DeauvilleHudson bridge during the years eighteen eighty to nineteen fourteen"