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"Let's find the ore train," ordered Pitt "We'd be smart to put it out of commission and cut all transportation between the mine and the ship"

Gunn nodded, and theyunder the s and halting at a corner where they paused to cautiously scan the i across an open space until they reached the railroad track, stepped across the rails and began sprinting between the ties

A chill crept up Pitts back as he tailed Gunn, and he clenched his fists around the stock and forward grip of the Tho sense of despair The wind and rain had stopped and the stars were quickly fading in the eastern sky

So

To Hollis, it seemed hours since they had launched the boats

The coed coastline and deposited Hollis's team on a small island at thewas executed smoothly with effortless efficiency, but the swift, four-knot tidal current was far stronger than anyone had anticipated

Then the silent electric motor on the lead five-man tow boat had mysteriously quit after the first ten minutes Precious time was lost as the Special Forces men broke out the paddles and put their backs into a desperate race to close on the Lady Flaht

Matters had been worsened by the breakdown in communications To his diser or any of the land team

He had no way of knohether Dillenger had boarded the ship or was lost on the glacier

Hollis paddled and cursed the deceased motor, the current at every stroke His carefully calculated timetable was down the drain The attack was far behind schedule, and he couldn't risk calling it off

His only salvation was the "fog smoke" Findley had described it swirled around the s the blanket

The mist and the darkness made it impossible for Hollis to see ated and watched over his tiny fleet through an infrared scope He kept the directions over his an to stray

He turned the scope on the Lady Flarotesque ice carving floating in front of the cracked porcelain wall of an antique bathtub Hollis judged her to still be a good kilometer away

After exacting its toll, the tide suddenly began to slacken and their speed soon picked up almost a knot The welcome relief ca down under the constant, arduous paddling They were hts on a regular basis They dug the paddles into the water noiselessly and heaved against theto stiffen and each stroke became an effort

The protectivetolift In hisducks in the water Hollis looked upward, his confidence ebbing with the tide Through thefrohter blue