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Seeing no sign of lights orhook and saw that it was fir

Pitt's zany idea had worked incredibly well

Satisfied the hook wasn't going anywhere, he rose to his feet He untied the kite and hid it in the vegetation opposite the path before returning to the edge of the bluff and giving two sharp tugs on the rope that vanished into the darkness

Far below, Pitt turned to Maeve "Your turn"

"I don't know if I'hts scare me"

He ht around her waist "Hold tight to the line, lean back from the cliff and walk up the side Al will haul you up from above"

He answered Giordino's signal by jerking three times on the line Maeve felt the slack taken up, followed by the pressure around her waist Cla like a fly up the vertical face of the cliff

Far above, his arms too numb to elevate Maeve by hand, Giordino had discovered a se or cut into the nylon fibers He inserted the line and laid it over his shoulders Then he bent forward and staggered across the path, dragging Maeve's weight up the cliff behind him

In twelve htly closed "Welcoreeted her warmly

"Thank God that's behindher eyes for the first ti the beach "I don't think I could ever do it again"

Giordino untied Maeve "Keep watch while I hoist Dirk You can see a fair distance along the cliffs to the north, but the path south is hidden by a big group of rocks about fifty meters away"

"I remember them," said Maeve "They have a hollow interior with natural ramparts My sister Deirdre and I used to play there and pretend ere royalty It's called the Castle There's a suards"

"We've got to bring Dirk up before the next patrol coain

To Pitt, it felt as if he were being hauled topside in the ti But less than ten meters fro, no word of encourage was unlucky A patrolon the ledge above, he pressed his body into a s for sounds in the night

Maeve had spotted the bea around one wall of the Castle and immediately alerted Giordino, Quickly, he secured the line around a tree to maintain tension so Pitt wouldn't be dropped back onto the beach, He brushed dirt and dead leaves over the section of rope that showed but had no ti hook