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“He thinks we’re hiding out or heading back to Schönau, doesn’t he?” she asked

Sam nodded “He’ll set up an ambush so to play his game”

The minutes slipped by Five turned into ten, then into twenty Finally Sa Follow the shoreline south Keep it just above an idle”

“So to have to wait”

“Would you settle for a roof over your head and a cozy campfire?”

CHAPTER 51

HOTEL SCHÖNE AUSSICHT GRÖSSINGER, SALZBURG

Message from Evelyn Torre

s,” Re off her shoes “Just a ‘call h She lives for this stuff”

“First that brandy I promised you, then Evelyn,” Sam said

“We’re going to need clothes and essentials”

“Brandy, Evelyn, sleep, then shopping”

Since eluding Kholkov on the Königssee, they’d been awake and on thethe shoreline at a snail’s pace, they reached the Obersee’s Salet docks an hour later and disembarked Sam opened the boat’s scuttle cock, waited until a foot of water was sloshing on the deck, then pointed the board the center of the lake and eased the throttle forward a notch It disappeared into the snow

Remi said, “We haven’t exactly been low-impact tourists, have we?”

“Don’t worry,” he said with a wink “We’ll make an anonymous donation to the Saint Bartholomae’s Historical Society They can buy a fleet of speedboats”