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“I give it back You’re the ones ill need it”

Sam and Reoing They found a second parking lot and a ht have been the other end of the first trail They turned around and drove back past the parked vehicles toward the Hungarian border

They drove past Alba Iulia, and then, a few miles on, they reached an area that was hway beca pavele of rocks, trees, brush, and vines Sa the land for the perfect spot

At last, he was sure he had found it There was a quarter-ht, then rose and disappeared over a crest Thearea of the virgin forest that had once covered etation was thick and wild Sah speed until he reached a turnout to allow cars to pass, killed the engine, and popped the trunk

Re rope, and a crowbar As she reached for the night vision goggles, Sales”

“Good That means we’ll be done by dark”

“Come to think of it, we’d better take thean to climb up the wall at the side of the road to the rocky slope above Rean to climb beside him

“While we’re cli,” she said, “you can help me find a title for my memoir Do you like Remi: An Aive away too much? Maybe just Remi: Girl Behind Bars”

“How about One Lucky Girl: My Life With Sao?”

She laughed, then cliher and higher, she realized that the bulges in the rocky wall and the curve of the road made it iht, it also meant that while they were up here they were not visible fro up would see only the rocks

Afternear the crest for a few hundred feet Then he took his shovel and began to dig

“I hope what I’ht down the hillside, as round heavy things tend to do, then we’ll have a fairly iary, and be on our merry way”

“Merry? Are you sure?”

“If it works, ill be merry It just will take an enor of luck” He turned his attention to shoveling away the dirt and s the four-foot boulder in place a hundred fifty feet above the road Remi stood on the other side of the boulder and shoveled too

They reached a ed from the dirt of the hillside They had freed more than half of its bulk, and its botto, selected a dead li and two and a half inches thick He then rolled a nearby rock in front of the boulder to use as a fulcrum