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"The saht of so, out of curiosity I saw the Dorsett gunship take off after a floatplane the other day It never returned"

"I know," said Pitt "It ran into a hill and burned"

"You know?"

"I was on the floatplane"

The engineer looked at him queerly "And Malcolm Stokes?"

Pitt quickly realized that this was the undercoverBut he'll live to enjoy his pension"

"I'ood man He has a fine family"

"A wife and five children," said Pitt "He told me after we crashed"

"Then you got clear only to jump back in the fire"

"Not very bright of me, was it?"

The engineer suess it wasn't" Then he turned and headed back into the elevator building, where he disappeared from Pitt's view

Five minutes later, the van appeared and Pitt waved it to a stop The driver, in the uniforuard, stared at Pitt suspiciously "Where did you come from?" he asked

Pitt handed hied wordlessly

The driver read the note, wadded it up, tossed it on the floor and nodded "Okay, take a seat I'll run you as far as the search house at the other end of the tunnel"

/>As the driver closed the door and shifted the van into drive, Pitt took a seat behind him and casually leaned down and picked up the crumpled note It read: