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"Except for Dirk's snoring, it was marvelous," said Loren

Pitt looked at her indignantly "I don't snore"

She rolled her eyes toward the heavens "I have tendonitis inyou"

"What do you think of our work platforrandly at the ferryboat "Built in 1923 She was one of the last walking beam steamboats to be built"

Pitt lifted his sunglasses and studied the antique vessel

When seen from a distance most ships tend to look smaller than they actually are Only up close do they appear huge This was true of the passenger/car ferries of the first half of the century In her heyday the 70-ers and sixty auto black hull was topped with a two-story white superstructure whose upper deck e smokestack and two pilothouses, one on each end Like most car ferries, she could be loaded and off-loaded fro on the direction the ferry was stea at the tilaettable service in the lives of ers

The name painted across the center of the superstructure that housed the paddlewheels identified her as the Alhambra

"Where did you steal that derelict?" asked Pitt "From a maritime museum?"

"To know her is to love her," said Giordino without feeling

"She was the only vessel I could find quickly that could land a helicopter," Gunn explained "Besides, I kept Sandecker happy by obtaining her on the cheap"

Loren set in your transportation collection"

Pitt pointed to the walking beah A-fra rod fro the crank that turned the paddlewheel "I can't believe her boilers are still fired by coal"

"They were converted to oil fifty years ago," said Gunn "The engines are still in re speed is twenty miles an hour"

"Don't you mean knots or kilometers?" said Loren

"Ferryboat speeds are eably