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on, you'll also be interested to learn that Boudicca Dorsett clai to close down the mine a month from now"

"If it's true,back the canteen "That calls for another drink"

"I owe you a debt I can't repay," said Pitt quietly "You took a great risk to help me escape"

"It orth it to bash Merchant and Crutcher's skulls," Broadood before It is I who must thank you for the opportunity"

Pitt reached out and shook Broad to miss your cheery disposition"

"You're going home?"

"Back to Washington with the inforathered"

`You're okay for a mainlander, friend Pitt If you ever need a second hoe"

"You never know," said Pitt warht take you up on that offer someday"

They departed the grotto long after dark as insurance against chance discovery by Dorsett security patrol boats Broadht around his neck so that it was hanging on his back

Fortified by the boysenberry wine, Pitt followed the tiny beah the surf and around the rocks, aated in the dark without mishap

The ie of Maeve, forced to work as a spy under the boot of her father, blacker He also felt a stab in his heart, a feeling that had not coursed through him in years His emotions stirred with the memories of another woman Only then did he realize it was possible to feel the same love for two different wo, one dead

Driven and torn by conflicting emotions of love and hate and a determination to stop Arthur Dorsett no ripped the handlebars till his knuckles gleaed through the cataract from Broadmoor's wake

For most of the afternoon the wind blew steadily out of the northeast A brisk wind, but not enough to raise more than an occasional whitecap on the swells that topped out at onerain that fell in sheets, cutting visibility to less than five kilo the water as if its surface was churned byTo most sailors it was miserable weather But to British seamen like Captain Ian Briscoe, who spent their early years walking the decks of ships plowing through the damp of the North Sea, this was like old home week