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Pitt ston?"

About five thousand kilometers Why?"

He pulled the sling off his arm, threw it in the backseat and slid his arot five thousand kilometers to find out just how lovable I am"

POSTSCRIPT

The walls in the waiting room outside Sandecker's private office in the NUMA headquarters building are covered with a rogues' gallery of photographs taken of the ad with the rich and famous The subjects include five Presidents, nuress ofat the camera, lips stretched in predictable smiles

All have sis in the exact center of the others This one has a gold frame

In this photograph Sandecker is standing aroup of people who look as if they have just been in some kind of spectacular accident One short, curly-headedtoward the calasses, with his head encased in a bandage and splints on several of his fingers, wearing what appears to be a flimsy untied hospital smock Then there is an attractive wos in a safe house for battered wives Next to her stands a tallHis eyes have a devil-hter

If, after being ushered into the admiral's office, you casually ask about the unusual characters in the photograph with the gold frame, be prepared to sit and listen attentively for the next hour

It is a long story, and Sandecker loves to tell how the Rio Pitt got its name