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"Okay, so you'read the press story about the shipwreck discovery"

"Yes"

"And you think this girl disappeared with the San Marino?"

"I'm certain of it"

"Then your case is solved The thief is dead and the one forever"

"Not that silass "There's no doubt Arta Casilighio is dead, but the one forever

Arta took freshly printed currency from the Federal Reserve Bank

All serial numbers were recorded, so it was an easybills" Casio paused to look over his glass into Pitts eyes "Two years ago themoney finally turned up"

Sudden interest flared in Pitts eyes He sat down in a chair facing Casio "All of it?" he asked cautiously

Casio nodded "it appeared in dribbles and spurts Five thousand in Frankfurt, a thousand in Cairo, all in foreign banks None caht in the United States, except one hundred-dollar bill"

"Then Arta didn't die on the San Marino"

"She vanished with the ship all right The FBI connected her to a stolen passport belonging to an Estelle Wallace With that lead they were able to follow her as far as San Francisco Then they lost her

I kept digging and finally ran down a drifter who sometimes drove a cab when he needed boozeramp of the San Marino"

"Can you trust the memory of a lush?"

Casio save him a crisp new hundred-dollar bill for the fare He couldn't e so she told him to keep it