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The men paused and stared at her Pitt bowed "You have the floor, Congresswoman"

"The first is where do you plan to park the Pierce Arrow? It doesn't look safe enough around here to leave a hundred-thousand-dollar classic car sitting unattended on a fishing dock"

Gunn looked surprised that she should ask "Didn't Dirk tell you? The Pierce and the trailer come on board the ferry There's acres of room inside"

"Is there a bath and shower?"

"As a matter of fact, there are four ladies' restrooer deck and a shower in the crew's quarters"

"No standing in line for the potty I like that"

Pitt laughed "You don't even have to unpack"

"Make believe you're on a Carnival Lines cruise ship," said Giordino humorously

"And your final question?" inquired Gunn

"I'ally "When do we eat?"

In autuh a sky of strange brilliant blue-white This day, there wasn't a cloud to be seen from horizon to horizon One of the most arid lands in the world, the Baja Peninsula protects the Sea of Cortez from the heavy swells that roll in from the dih winds are not unknown during the su winds turn east to west and generally spare the Gulf froh, choppy swells

With the Pierce Arrow and its travel trailer safely tied down on the cavernous auto deck, Gunn at the wheel in the pilothouse, and Loren stretched on a lounge chair in a bikini, the ferry moved out of the breakwater harbor and made a wide turn to the south The old boat presented an iht as black smoke rose from her stack and her paddlewheels pounded the water The walking beam, shaped like a flattened diaine's huge piston to the shaft that cranked the paddlewheels There was a rhyth enough

While Giordino ht inspection of the helicopter and topped off the fuel tank, Pitt was briefed on the latest developton over the Motorola Iridium satellite phone Not until an hour later, as the ferry steamed off Point Estrella, did Pitt switch off the phone and descend to the iht pad on the open forward deck of the ferry As soon as Pitt was strapped in his seat, Giordino lifted the turquoise NUMA craft off the ferry and set a parallel course along the coastline

"What did the old boy have to say before we left the Alhambra?" asked Giordino as he leveled the chopper off at 800 er turn up any new clues?"

Pitt was sitting in the copilot's seat and acting as navigator "Yaeger had no startling revelations The only information he could add was that he believes the statue of the de to the treasure cavern"