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Sa and ended up back at the dock They’d seen no familiar faces A halfaround the peninsula

Sam said, “We can wait here and check faces as each boat co for clues”

“I’,” Remi said

“Me neither Let’s get ”

They ift shop, where they selected a pair of sweatshirts—one a pale yellow, the other a dark blue—from the rack, then a pair of floppy hats from another display They paid for their purchases and headed to the restroo If Kholkov and histheuises, combined with the crohich had by noelled to over two hundred, h cover to move about anonymously

“Ready?” he asked

“As I’ll ever be,” Re her auburn hair under her hat

For the next twentypictures of the fjord and the mountains until Remi said, “Got him”

“Where?” Sa

“The boat that’s circling, waiting to dock Starboard side, fourthback”

Saht the inco boat in the corner of the frame He zoomed in, took a few pictures, lowered his camera “Yep, that’s Kholkov I counted three others Wait here”

Hat pulled low over his eyes, Sam strolled back toward the dock “Hey, there, just aready to untie the docked boat “Forgot the Trinkgeld” Sam held up a ten-euro note

“Certainly, sir, go ahead,” the deckhand said

Sam hopped aboard, dropped the note and transponder chip into the Trinkgeld cup, then stepped back onto the dock While in the bathroom he’d used the price stickers from their sweatshirts to affix a spare watch battery to the chip The battery wouldn’t power the transponder forenough for their purposes

He made his way back to Remi, who asked, “Think it’ll work?”