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"Keep a tight grip," Pitt said, with a griain"

"I'd die first," Giordino muttered bravely He cut almost ten minutes before he let Pitt relieve him

It took the two of theh to crawl through Once past the ht, Pitt's eyes were blinded by the sunlight that strealare from eyes accustomed to darkness, he found hilass fro

While Giordino squirlass-enclosed rooree view of a huge lake and surrounding islands

"Where did we come up?" asked Giordino

Pitt turned and looked at hi to believe this, but we're at the top of a lighthouse"

"A lighthouse!" burst Sandecker at Pitt's description over his speakerphone His voice betrayed his elation at hearing Pitt and Giordino were alive and safe

"Yes, sir," Pitt's voice came back over his satellite phone "Specter built it as a folly"

"A folly?"

"A structure built to look like the ruins of an ancient castle or historic structure," Gunn explained He leaned over the speakerphone "You're saying the lighthouse was built to hide a ventilator shaft rising from the tunnel"

"Exactly," answered Pitt

Sandecker twisted one of his cigars "Your story sounds fantastic"

"All true down to the last item," said Pitt

"A tunnel-boring h a mile of rock a day?"

"Which explains how Specter was able to excavate four tunnels, each nearly a hundred and fifty th, in four years"