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Deirdre sat up, startled, and lifted a hand to shade her eyes from the sun "Are your sources reliable? I personally hired the best investigators, forents, to keep her under surveillance"

"It's confirnh the countryside"

"Maeve isn't sators"

"From what I've been told, she had help" Her lips twisted into a scowl "Let uess Dirk Pitt"

Dorsett nodded "The hit Island ers"

"I sensed he was dangerous when he saved Maeve I should have kno dangerous when he interrupted my plans to be airlifted off the Polar Queen by our helicopter after I set the ship on a collision course toward the rocks I thought ere rid of hi at our Canadian operation"

Dorsettby a colu the roof over the veranda She was dressed in a silk dress with long slits up the sides "Bring in," he ordered

"Make it a tall one I don't like skimpy drinks"

Deirdre held up a tall, elass "Another rum collins"

The girl hurried off to bring the drinks Deirdre caught her father eyeing the girl's backside and rolled her eyes "Really, Daddy You should know better than to bed the hired help The world expects better from a man of your wealth and status"

"There are soo beyond class," he said sternly

"What do we do about Maeve? She's obviously enlisted Dirk Pitt and his friends from NUMA to help her retrieve the twins"

Dorsett pulled his attention fro Chinese servant "He may be a resourceful man, but he won't find Gladiator Island as easy to penetrate as our Kunghit Island property"

"Maeve knows the island better than any of us She'll find a way"

"Even if they h the arched door of the courtyard in the general direction of the et within two hundred meters of the house"