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nally eased her back, he whispered, "Let's wait for the honeyet carried away"

She laughed and kissed hisurprise"

"I chartered a s to sail around the Mediterranean"

"Sounds wonderful"

"Think a Colorado cowgirl can learn to raise sails and navigate?"

"Just watch me"

They soon arrived at Pitt's hangar Giordino used the remote to turn off the security alarms and open the main door Then he drove the Marmon onto the main floor Pitt and Loren stepped from the car and clied into more casual clothes for the reception

St Julien charged into the hangar like aorders to the caterers He dabbed sweat froht on by the warm, humid Indian summer day and admonished the maître d' of Le Curcel, the Michelin three-star restaurant he had hired to cater the reception "These oysters you expect to serve are the size of peanuts They simply won't do"

"I shall have the away

Soon the guests began arriving and were served a California estate chaan dabbling in the gourmet delicacies from several buffet tables laid around the ornate antique bathtub with an outboard motor that Pitt had used to escape Cuba many years earlier The buffet table featured polished silver chafing dishes and iced platters kept filled with every variety of food that could be pulled fro abalone and sea urchin

Perl a ain

When Admiral Sandecker arrived, he asked to see Pitt alone He was shown into one of the staterooms of the Manhattan Limited Pullman car that Pitt used as an office After Pitt closed the door and they sat down, Sandecker lit up one of his battleship cigars and blew a blue haze toward the paneled ceiling

"You know that Vice President Holden is in poor health," the adan

"I've heard rumors"