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"I borrowed one of your cars I hope you don't mind"

"Depends," he said "Which one?"

"My favorite, the blue Talbot-Lago"

"The coupe' with the Saoutchik coachwork? You have expensive taste That's a 200,000 car"

"Oh, dear, I hope it doesn't get dented in the parking lot"

Pitt gave her a solen state of Colorado will have a vacant seat in Congress"

She clutched his arhed "You think more of your cars than you do your women"

"Cars never nag and complain"

"I can think of a few other things they never do," she said with a girlish smile

They threaded their way through the crowded tere claim Finally the conveyor belt hummed into motion and Pitt retrieved his two suitcases They passed outside into a gray, stickypeacefully under the watchful eye of an airport security guard Pitt relaxed in the passenger's seat as Loren slipped behind the wheel The rakish car was a right-hand drive, and it always struck Pitt odd to sit and stare out the left side of the windshield at the approaching traffic with nothing to do

"did you call Perlmutter?" he asked

"About an hour before you landed," she answered "He was quite agreeable, for someone as jolted out of a sound sleep

He said he'd go through his library for data on the ships you asked about"

"If anyone knows ships, it's St Julien Perlmutter"

"He sounds like a character over the phone"