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"None"

"Check the boat," Blackowl said without hesitation "I'll meet you there after I inform headquarters"

McGrath signed off and hurried along the bank to the dock

"Post six, co up on you"

"Aiken, post six Come ahead"

McGrath groped his way onto the dock and found agent John Aiken's hulking figure under a floodlight "Have you seen Brock?"

"You kidding?" Answered Aiken "I haven't seen shit since the fog hit"

McGrath dogtrotted along the dock, repeating the call-warning process By the tile, Polaski had come around from the opposite deck to meet him

"I' Brock," he said tersely

Polaski shrugged "Last I saw of hied posts"

"Okay, stand here by the dockside I' to take a look below decks And keep an eye peeled for Blackowl He's on his way down from Control"

When Blackowl lurched out into the dali overcast above He steered his way fro the pathway to the pier as the visibility i was terribly wrong

Agents did not desert their posts without warning, without reason

When at last he leaped aboard the yacht, the fog had disappeared as if by hts of the radio antenna across the river sparkled in the newly cleared air He brushed by Polaski and found McGrath sitting alone in the deckhouse, staring trancelike into nothingness

Blackowl froze