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Sam checked the map “Yep, this is it Selma swears it’s the best charter place on the island”

“If she says so”

“Are you really going to bring that thing?” she asked, nodding to the towel-draped object lying on the floor between Sam’s feet

After hanging up with Rube, Saone to the villa and recounted the conversation to Remi, who listened carefully and asked no questions

“I don’t want to see you get hurt,” she said finally, taking his hands in hers

“And I don’t want to see you get hurt It’d be the end of my world”

“Then let’s not get hurt Like you said, we’ll just stay one step ahead of theh—”

“We’ll call in the good guys and go home”

“Sure ill,” she replied

Before co the hotel they’d first followed Rube’s address to a shoe-repair shop in don Nassau, where they found that the owner and Rube’s c

ontact, Guido, was expecting them

“Rubin wasn’t sure you would colish “He said you were both very stubborn”

“Did he now?”

“Yes, oh, yes”

Guido walked to the front door, flipped over the Out to Lunch sign, then led them into the back room and down a set of stone steps into the base on a bench amid shoes in various states of disrepair was a snub-nosed 38-caliber revolver