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Pitt looked at the ad a free ticket to the circus "I htly, but yes, that's the way I see it"

Sandecker puffed hed "Do your trespassing But just reht by Dorsett's security people, don't bother to call home Because nobody will answer the phone"

A Rolls-Royce sedan rolled soundlessly to a stop beside an ancient aircraft hangar that stood in a weed-grown field on the far perimeter of Wash

ington's International Airport Like an elegant dowager slu side of the tracks, the stately old car seeht The only illulow of a weathered streetlight that failed disreen metallic paint of the car

The Rolls was a model known as the Silver Dawn The chassis came out of the factory in 1955 and was fitted with a custom body by the coach-builders Hoopers & Coracefully into the body at the rear until the skirted wheels and sides were perfectly sht six with overhead valves, which carried the car over the roads as quietly as the ticking of an electric clock Speed with a Rolls-Royce was never a factor When questioned about horsepower, the factory merely stated that it was adequate

St Julien Perlo Mulholand, pulled on the enition and turned to his employer, who filled most of the rear seat

"I have never been co you here," he said in a hollow bass voice that ith his bloodhound eyes He stared at the rusting corrugated roof and walls that hadn't seen paint in forty years

"I can't see why anyone would want to live in such a disreputable shack"

Perlely, none of his body possessed e old knob of a hollow cane that doubled as a brandy flask and rapped it on the walnut table that lowered from the rear of the front seat "That disreputable shack, as you call it, happens to house a collection of antique automobiles and aircraft worthset upon by bandits are unlikely They don't usually roah security systeuard a Manhattan bank"

Perlmutter paused to point his cane out theat a tiny red light that was barely visible "Even as we speak, we're being monitored by a video camera"

Mulholand sighed, stepped around the car and opened the door for Perlmutter "Shall I wait?"

"No, I' dinner here Enjoy yourself for a few hours Then return and pick me up at eleven-thirty"

Mulholand helped Perlmutter froar The door was stained and layered with dust The cae ell conceived Anyone who happened to pass the run-down appearing hangar would assu scheduled for demolition

Perlmutter rapped on the door with his cane After a few seconds there was an audible click, and the door opened as if pulled by a ghostly hand

Enjoy your dinner," said Mulholand as he slid a cylindrical package under Perlmutter's arrasp Then he turned and walked back to the Rolls