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"That's all we're going to coe system"

"Nothing new there," Pitt agreed

What now?"

Can you tap the Coast Guard headquarters documents?"

Yaeger gave a wolfish grin "Can Aunt jemima make pancakes?"

He consulted a thick black notebook for afor and punched the number into a pushbbutton telephone connected to a modern link The Coast Guard coer's access code, and the green block letters swept across the display: "PLEASE STATE YOUR REQUEST"

Yaeger gave Pitt a questioning look

"Ask for an abstract of title on the Pilottown," Pitt ordered

Yaeger nodded and sent the request into the terminal The answer flashed back and Pitt studied it closely, noting all the transactions of the vessel fro as it was a docues against it The prohe was redundant The Pilottown had been removed from documentation when it was sold to an alien, in this case the Kassandra Phosphate Company of Athens, Greece

"Anything proer inquired

"Another dry hole," Pitt grunted

"How about Lloyd's of London? They'll have it in their register"

"Okay, give it a shot"

Yaeger logged out of the Coast Guard systeain and routed the terreat maritime insurance company The data printed out at 400 characters a second This tireater detail And yet little of it appeared useful Then an iteht Pitts attention

"I think we "