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He touched her arm and pointed up After they surfaced, he said excitedly, "I found two more chambers"

"This getsher eye from the viewfinder

He grinned and held up a bronze lady's hair coine the last woman to use it"

Summer lowered her camera and stared at the object in Dirk's hand Her eyes widened as she delicately took the coers "It's lovely," she h a few strands of her flame-red hair that trailed past her cars when she stopped and suddenly looked at him seriously "You should put it back where you found it When archaeologists examine this place, and they will, you'll be condemned as a relic thief"

"If I had a girlfriend, I bet she'd keep it"

"The last of your long string of women would have stolen the charity box from a church"

Dirk feigned looking hurt "Sara's streak of larceny made her irresistible"

"You're just lucky Dad is a better judge of women than you are"

"What's he got to do with it?"

"He gave Sara the boot when she showed up at his hangar looking for you"

"I wondered why she never returned my calls," said Dirk, without a hint of distress

She gave hi to conjure up an i what style and color her hair ht have been After a few moments, she carefully laid the ancient relic in her brother's open hands so she could photograph it

As soon as Summer took several close-up photos, Dirk returned the comb to the cauldron He was soon followed by Sues of the bedrooital ca the ancient kitchen Satisfied that she had achieved a detailed photographic inventory of the three chambers and their artifacts, she passed the cahts and slipped it back into its alu it to Suhtly in one hand as insurance against losing or da the case

He es and determined they had more than an ample air reserve for the journey back to their habitat Well trained by their father, Dirk and his sister were cautious divers who had yet to coer of e memorized the bends and curves in the coral they had passed through earlier

When they finally reached the comfort of Pisces and passed into the , driven by awind that forced the waves to build and pound the reef like a jack-ha dinner, he and Su the riddle of the underwater ghost temple They relaxed and ate dinner under a false security Neither had any conception of how vulnerable they were fifty feet beneath the surface of a vicious sea, certainly not aves that were about to reach a hundred feet high, with troughs that would expose the habitat to the full force of the horrendous killer storm