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"Well, in can be found most anywhere Life jackets, lifeboats, on the bow and stern the na the painted letters Then you have the builder's plates, one on the exterior of the superstructure, one in the engine room And, oh, yeah, the ship's official number is burned into a beam around the outer base of the hatch covers"

"I'll wager athe ship from under the mountain you'd find the hatch nuone"

"That leaves one in the engine room"

"Missing too I checked, along with all the s"

"Sounds devious," said Dover quietly

"You're daht," Pitt replied abruptly "There's more to the Pilottown than a marine insurance rip-off"

"I' aardly to his feet "I', starved and tired as hell I vote we head back"

Pitt looked and saw Dover was still clutching the canister of explosives "Bringing that along?"

"evidence"

"Don't drop it," Pitt said with a sarcastic edge in his voice

They clih the ship's storerooain Suddenly Pitt stopped in his tracks Dover, walking head down, bumped into him

"Why'd you stop?"

"You feel it?"

Before Dover could answer, the deck beneath their feet trembled and the bulkheads creaked ominously What sounded like the muffled roar of a distant explosion rumbled closer and closer, quickly followed by a tremendous shock wave The Pilottown shuddered under the impact and her welded seams screeched as they split under enormous pressure

The shock flung the two ainst the steel bulkheads