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"I stand corrected"

They went silent for aat alreat levees that shielded the land froe groves spread across the narrow strips of Solid ground bordering the levees, before slining away into reat piers entrenched along the west bank Small mountains of yellow sulphur rose fifty feet over the flat, poisoned ground

The next half-hour produced the first of three false alarms A few miles below Port Sulphur they spotted an abandoned cannery with two barges tied up beside it Griffin radioed his tea the helicopter from the road on the west bank A quick search proved the building to be ee water and silt

They continued south, flying over the vastseveral grazing deer, a nu theoats that looked up at their passing with indifferent curiosity

A huge freighter churned upriver, thrusting its blunt bow against the current The flag of registry on its stern flapped red with a gold star and hammer and sickle

"Russian," Pitt observed

"The Soviets own a fair percentage of the five thousand ships that steam into New Orleans every year," said Griffin

"Want to see what's on that barge?" Hogan asked, pointing

"There, tied up behind that dredge on the east bank"

Griffin nodded "We'll check this one out ourselves"

Hogan nodded her blond mane "I'll set you down on the levee"

She expertly dropped the tires of the helicopter onto the crushed shell road that ran along the top of the levee Three e Another threehimself in his seat

"No luck?" asked Pitt

"A bummer The old tub is half filled with oil Must be used as a refilling station for the dredge"

Pitt looked at his watch, Two-thirty Ti away A few more hours and Moran would be sworn in as President He said, "Let's keep the show "