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He rapped his knuckles against thehe had his arm draped over, but instead of a dull thud she heard a

“What is that?”

“Not sure yet Part of it—can’t be sure what part until I get down there and get inside”

“Part of what? Get inside what?”

“This way, come on”

Taking her by the hand, Sam sidestroked deeper into the inlet and around a corner, where the course narrowed to twenty feet He stopped and pointed to a vine-covered cypress trunk near the bank “There You see it?”

She squinted, tilted her head left, then right “No What a for?”

“That branch sticking out of the water, the one that ends in a T shape”

“Okay, I see it”

“Look harder Squint It helps”

She did, narrowing her eyes until slohat she was seeing registered on her brain She gasped ?

??Good Lord, is that aIt can’t be”

Grinning from ear to ear, Sam nodded “Yep It is That, my dear, is a submarine’s periscope”

CHAPTER 2

SEVASTOPOL, UKRAINE