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Pitt pulled the blanket under his armpits, rolled over and faced the bulkhead "Yes, as a matter of fact You can tell hih vanished And I can uess as to where she hides"

If any other man had spoken those words, Gunn would have called him a liar But Pitt he didn't doubt for a second

"Mind giving me a clue?"

Pitt half-turned "You're an art collector of sorts, aren't you, Rudy?"

"My small collection of abstracts won't match the New York Museum of Modern Art, but it's respectable" He looked at Pitt in unco?"

"If I' way"

"Are we on the same frequency?"

"Christo," said Pitt as he turned and refaced the bulkhead

"We're about to review a Christo-inspired sculpture"

A light snow had turned to a e city in the world Punta Arenas had flourished as a port of call before the Panama Canal was built, and died afterward The

city gradually returned as a sheepraising center and was now boo after productive oil fields were discovered close by

Hollis and Dillenger stood on a harbor pier, waiting anxiously to board the Sounder The te; it was a damp, harsh cold that bit at their exposed faces

They felt like cornels in the Arctic Through the cooperation of Chilean authorities, they had gone undercover and exchanged their battle dress for the uniforration officials

As scheduled, their aircraft had landed at a nearby military airport while it was still dark The stor visibility to a few hundredtheir arrival unobserved

The Chilean enerous in their hospitality and provided hangar space for Hollis's sht