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“They’re still adding it up”

“And don’t forget the broken ”

“I’ll drive,” Sam said They drove out of town, and Remi used the map on her cell phone to find the route and distance The two cities were just about seventy-nine miles apart, so the drive took them a bit over an hour and a half on the E17

When they found the address in Troyes, theirlot, a truck garage, and a medium-sized warehouse As they approached, Re lot”

In the lot, close to the warehouse, were the Range Rover with its broken windshield and, beside it, the truck that had run into it The truck wasits front bunhway so they could study the complex carefully There were no s in either the warehouse or the garage, but each had skylights on its roof There were no lights turned on and no rounds

Sam drove onto the blacktop They sat there for a few , but nobody opened a door or caone home?” asked Remi Sam looked at the side of the warehouse, studied the slope of the roof, then backed in the truck so the cargo box fit neatly under the eaves

He and Reed a look It took no words for them to execute the plan Remi reached into the truck behind the seat, opened the toolbox, and found a tire iron and a rope They stepped onto the front bumper, onto the hood, up to the cab’s roof, then to the top of the cargo box, and finally onto the roof of the warehouse They knelt by the closest skylight and stared down into the building

There hite plastic containers the size of ten-gallon paint cans stacked nearly up to the skylight On either side were open aisles on a concrete floor There were two forklifts, and there was an office

Saht, then reached in and cleared away all the broken glass stuck to the frame Then he tied the rope securely around the steel strut in the middle

“Here goes,” Remi whispered and lowered herself on the rope to the top of a row of plastic containers She tested the,” she said “Pretty stable”

Sam followed her down They made their way to lower and lower stacks of containers until they reached the last stack, which was only three high, and they got to the floor They split up and began to search the warehouse They kept at it until they’d checked every bit of open space and the office that occupied the end of the building

Sa idea, but proht they’d hide the treasure where they store their drugs”

Reed “We haven’t found those yet either These all see at a stack of plastic containers She stepped to the nearest container and read the label, then tipped the container an inch, moved to another row and lifted another container, then another row and container

Sam did the same They all seemed identical, around forty pounds each Sa the containers randomly within each row Finally, just as Re his pocketknife to unscrew the band around the top of another Releaold

The tent to work, quickly lifting each container and setting aside the ones that weren’t filled with an identical quantity of chehter, and many made noises if they were shaken Sa the containers of artifacts on it After about twenty ht another They were expert at spotting the off-weight containers now, and the pallets were loaded more quickly When they had found every one they could, and all they checked were full of chemicals, Sam said, “Find the switch that opens the doors”