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"I fail to see an opportunity in gaining entrance to a busy office building, bluffing our way past two hundred workers, trespassing to the tenth floor to steal a helicopter without so a band of rats in their lair"

"Maybe it would help if I could find you a lavender jumpsuit"

Giordino gave Pitt a look that would have withered a redwood "I've already gone beyond the call of duty You'll have to think of so else"

Pitt walked up to the Lowenhardts, ere standing with their arhtened "We're going to enter the headquarters building and ascend to the roof, where ill appropriate the helicopter," Pitt said "Stay close to me If we run into trouble, drop to the floor We can't have you obstructing our line of fire Our best hope is to act audacious Al and I will try to ation or whatever scam works best Once we reach the roof, hurry into the aircraft quickly and tighten your seat belts The takeoff h"

Claus and Hilda solemnly assured him they would follow his instructions They were in it now up to their ears and had crossed over the point of no return Pitt had faith in their adhering to his instructions to the letter They had no choice

They walked along the edge of the street until they reached the steps leading up to the entrance of the headquarters A passing truck caught thehts But the driver took no notice of them Tomen, one in lavender, the other in a white juarettes This time with Giordino in the lead, who slass door into the lobby Several women and only one man milled about the lobby in conversation Few looked their way as Pitt and the others passed, and those who glanced at them did so without suspicion

Moving along as if it was a coroup into an empty elevator before the doors closed But no sooner had everyone entered, and before he could push the button for the roof exit, than an attractive blond woman in lavender entered, leaned in front of hihth floor

She turned and studied the Lowenhardts, paused significantly as a look of wariness ca these people?" she delish

Giordino hesitated, unsure of what tack to take Undaunted, Pitt stepped beside Giordino and said in broken Spanish, "Perdónenos para inglés no parlante" [Forgive us for English nontalking]

The eyes suddenly blazed "I wasn't speaking to you!" she snappedto the lady"

Caught in the , his voice a sure giveaway that he wasn't feh pitch that sounded odd and hollow inside the elevator

"I speak a little inglés"

His ansas a penetrating stare She studied his face and her eyes widened as she saw his five o'clock shadow She reached out and rubbed one hand across his cheek "You're a man!" she blurted She wheeled and reached out to stop the elevator at the next floor, but Pitt slapped her hand down

The Odyssey representative looked at Pitt in disbelief "How dare you?"

He smiled devilishly "You'veyou away to a better world"