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"Let me have a look" Graham pried away the hands and unzipped the front of Hoskins's juht from a pocket and pushed the switch He could not suppress a smile "Your ill need another excuse to dun of blood Your sex life is secure"
"Where's Lilyand Gronquist?" Hoskins asked haltingly
"About two hundredand check out their situation"
Hoskins rose painfully to his feet and hobbled to the edge of the ice break A, its di the bubbles that traveled up six meters to the surface Graham walked over and peered down Then they looked at each other
"As lifesavers," said Hoskins dejectedly, "we'd better stick with archaeology-"
"Quiet!" Graham snapped suddenly He cupped his mittens to his ears and turned from side to side like a radar dish Then he stopped and pointed excitedly at flashing lights in the distance "Hot damn!" he shouted
"There's a helicopter co up the fjord"
Lily floated in and out of reality
She could not understand why it becaht She lifted her head and looked around for Gronquist He lay un to get a response, but he lay as though dead She gave up and gradually entered a halfdrea
Only when she began to shiver did Lily realize she was in a mild state of shock
She was certain Graharew into painful minutes, and they did not show She felt very tired and was about to gratefully slip away into sleep when she heard a strange thuht cut the dark sky and blinded her eyes Loose snoas kicked up by a sudden windstor sound died in intensity and a vague figure, encircled by the light, came toward her
The figure became a man in a heavy fur parka who irip on the snowht position
He walked around her until the light illu as they should but they stared into a pair of sparkling green eyes that took her breath away They seeentleness and sincere concern in one glinting e They narrowed a fraction when he saw that she was a woman She wondered dizzily where he came from
Lily couldn't think of anything to say except, "Oh, alad to see you"
"Name's Dirk Pitt," answered a warm voice "If you're not busy, why don't you have dinner with ht?"