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And if not, well, he would sienious as they’d been in their ambush of him, he felt it only fair he find an equally novel way of repaying them

CHAPTER 7

POCOMOKE RIVER

What do you think the chances are Ted will stay away?” Re

Sam cli “I think I got through to him, but with Ted you never know That shop is his life”

After questioning Frobisher for another half hour the night before and satisfying theotten the whole story, Sam had ordered a cot from the reception desk and put Ted, as by then s of brandy, to bed

The nextafter breakfast they’d convinced him to take a vacation, then made some calls and found a beach house on Fen-wick Island that belonged to a friend of a friend of a friend It was unlikely anyone would trace Frobisher to there Whether Ted would stay there, they didn’t know, but short of tying him up it was the best they could do

The question for theet any further involved Par for his personality and his solidly Libertarian ideals, Ted had diset the authorities involved He had little love or use for the government and asserted the police would simply take a report and file it ahich Saree with They doubted Ted’s abductor had left enough of a trail to follow

While they mulled it all over, Sainal plan of identifying the mini sub trapped in the inlet, then return to their search for Patty Cannon’s treasure

Reht the skiff about and pointed the nose downriver, the engine puttering softly in the coolair

“What a difference a day canup at the sky

“Amen,” Sam replied

The previous night’s rain had stopped just before dawn, giving way to a bright blue sky dotted with cotton-puff clouds Along the river-banks, birds chirped and flitted from branch to branch The surface of the water, cloaked in a thin mist, was flat save a ripple here and there as a fish popped to the surface to catch an unwary fly or water bug

“Say,” Remi said, “have I already mentioned how proud I am of you?”

“For what? Finding us those croissants this ?”