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“Exactly what I was thinking”

They split up, each strolling along a wall, studying each piece in turn “Here’s so before a case displaying a tall, oval shield made of wicker and leather “Used by Persian troops”

“I’ve got a Persian sword over here,” Remi replied from across the room “An akinakes, it’s called It was carried by Persian Immortals of the Achaemenid Dynasty”

“Looks like we have a thearis over here A Persian battle-ax—also from the Achaemenid Dynasty”

They continued their tour, each reading aloud fro bowsall from the ancient Persian Achaemenid Dynasty of Xerxes I

“I think soot a fetish,” Remi said as they met back near the door

“I agree,” Sauess, wefor”

“Maybe, but that begs the question: What does any of this have to do with Napoleon’s Lost Cellar?”

They made their way back to the blue-carpeted rotunda Reht-hand door, pulled it open, and took another peek “Nothing’s changed”

“Okay, here’s e’re going to do,” Sao in, if the ca, close the door and find a place to hide It uards are on the way”

“What about you?”

“You worry about you I’ll be right on your heels”

They switched places at the door Saht, then dropped to his belly and slithered through the door He rolled right until his back touched the wall, then crawled along it to the next door

Now he could hear the faint whirring of the ca beside the door, tapped the floor tith her fingernail: Camera away Slowly, Salass He checked the ceiling and walls above the computer workstations for cameras; he saw none Out of the corner of his eye he saw the caernail once—Ca—and he ducked down

Five seconds passed Remi tapped twice Sam reached up and tried the doorknob It was unlocked He rolled left and got to his knees, careful to keep his head below the glass He waited until Reain, then turned the knob, pushed open the door, crawled through, and shut it behind hiainst the wall below the caave her a thuh both doors and standing beside him