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"Can you fix it?"

"Probably not"

Pitt shook his head and gestured around the computer complex "You set up all this but can't repair a simple cassette player?"

"My heart isn't in it" Yaeger rose, walked into an office and stood the stuffed kangaroo on one corner of his desk

"Maybe so lamp"

Pitt followed him and closed the door "Feel in the mood for a more exotic project?"

"Along what lines?"

"Research "

"Lay it on me"

Pitt reer-NUMA's computer wizard slouched in a chair,

opened the envelope flap and withdrew the contents He rapidly scanned the typed transcript, then read through it againsilence, he peered over his spectacles at Pitt

"This from that old ship you found?"

"You know of it?"

"Have to be blind and deaf not to The story has been all over the newspapers and TV"

Pitt nodded at the papers in Yaeger's hand "A translation fro"