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“I don’t think this was the Russian governroup that’s learned of our attempts to find a series of treasures from the fifth century”
“That’s e think too,” said Hagar
“You’ve been looking into my wife’s disappearance already?”
“As soon as we heard about it We always investigate the disappearance of any US citizen fro questions about who you were, we ran across your years at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency They make your story more credible and ed your record, asking to be notified if you got in trouble I’ine what that means to us”
“I’m sure I can’t,” said Sam “I’ve known Rube for twenty years, but, whatever he does, he doesn’t talk about it with civilians”
“Let’s just say you have friends in high places We’ve been in touch with our contacts in Russian law enforceo away if they ignore this I’iven us what they know so far” He placed a file on the table, opened it, and pushed five photographs across to Sam
Sarabs from surveillance cameras mounted in the airport
Hagar pointed at the first one “Here is Mrs Fargo entering the ladies’ room at the airport Next you see the two female janitors let two other won that says ‘Closed for Cleaning’ and lock the door Here’s what happens when the door opens” The photograph showed the cleaning wo cardboard barrels on it
“I saw those women,” said Sam
“What did you see?”
“They came out, pushed the cart around the first corner, and then went out through an unmarked doorway”
“The Russian police don’t knoho these tomen are They’ve blown up their pictures and they don’t match the photo ID of anybody orks there They’ve fast-forwarded their way through about eight hours of tape, and Mrs Fargo never comes out that door We think they had your wife in one of those barrels”
“This is awful,” said Sam “I wasn’t really worried yet when I saw theister as out of the ordinary because I didn’t knoas or wasn’t ordinary”
“Of course” He brought out another photograph It showed the wo one of the barrels onto a hydraulic lift at the back of a truck operated by a man in coveralls There was Cyrillic script on the side
“What does that say?”