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"I'd like to speak to Mr Casio, please"

"Who shall I say is calling?"

"My name is Pitt"

"He's with a client Can you call back?"

"No!" Pitt growled ent"

Suitably intiminated, the receptionist replied, "One moment"

Casio came on the line almost immediately "Mr Pitt Good to hear from you"

"Sorry to interrupt your ," said Pitt, "but I need a feers"

"I'll do my best"

"What do you know about the crew of the San Marino?"

"Notunusual turned up They were all professional merchant mariners The captain, as I recall, had a very respectable record"

"No ties to any kind of organized crime?"

"Nothing that caht in the computers of the National Crime Information Center"

"How about the rest of the crew?"

"Not much there Only a few had maritime union records"