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Pitt sht bow, as if in relaxed satisfaction

Suddenly, before anybody realized what he was doing, he snatched up the knife and slashed the blade across Specter's stoh the white suit up to the hilt

Shouts from the hout the rooed toward Pitt, who stood ready and stepped aside, tripping the guard and sending hied the knife blade into the table in front of Specter and stood back, his expression one of extreratification

Loren, who had leaped to her feet, shouting at Pitt, abruptly went silent She was one of the first to see that Specter was not bleeding

Blood and intestines should have flooded onto the surface of the table, but the white suit was unstained with crimson Soon the hundred or an to notice the same phenomenon

His face pale, Congressavel like aon here?" he shouted

No one interfered as Pitt stepped around the table, pulled off Specter's sunglasses and casually flipped them onto the floor Then he reached up and pulled off Specter's hat and scarf and threw them on the table

Everyone in the rooreat mass of red hair fall down around Specter's shoulders

Pitt approached Congressman Dunn "Sir, permit me to introduce Ms Epona Eliade, also known as Specter, the founder of the Odyssey empire"

"Is this true?" said a confused Dunn, couised double?"

"She is the genuine article," Pitt assured hie as it sounds, I've missed you," he said, with a voice heavy with sarcasm

She should have treht of a snake But she stood tall and did not answer Pitt She didn't have to Her eyes flashed, lips tightened, as her face filled with enough hate and conte totally inconceivable happened in the next htened lips as abruptly as they appeared Slowly, very slowly, Epona began re the knife-slashed white suit until she stood incredibly serene and beautiful in only a white for silk dress that fell off the shoulders and stopped just below the hips, her red hair cascading past her bare shoulders

It was a vision that the hearing rooain

"You have won, Mr Pitt," she said, in a soft voice with just a trace of huskiness "Do you feel triumphant? Do you believe you have accomplished a miracle?"

Pitt shook his head slowly "Triumphant, no, and certainly no eous attempt to demoralize the lives of reat advance in fuel cell technology to the world, and your tunnels under Nicaragua would have provided untold opportunities to reduce the tih the Panaain nothing more than wealth and power"