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“Any luck?” she asked

“No He got away”

She nodded and returned to watching two officers gingerly walking through the roo in a sital camera The bathroom door was open, as was the closet, and their clothes were scattered across the bed and floor Sam frowned as he took in the ransacked area and then led Reer were standing in the shadows

The ht

“I’ies This has never happened before”

“Just our luck, then,” Remi said “It’s been that kind of a trip”

Docu which time the pair of officers established that the room’s safe had been broken into and Remi’s tablet stolen but the passports left behind Once Sam and Remi wer

e allowed in the roo on the table Reaze followed his to the phone, and then he turned to the officers

“Does it strike you as strange that they didn’t take that?” Sam asked, his tone neutral

The taller of the two shrugged “Maybe they were afraid the telephone could be tracked We do have TV here, you know”

Sam kept his tone even “And our passports?”

Sa they could do with them on the island”

“They couldn’t sell them?”

The cop shook his head and looked at his partner “Who’d want to buy your passports?”

Apparently, there wasn’t a thriving market for stolen documents on Guadalcanal because the officers looked honestly puzzled by Sam’s question Sam didn’t push it and allowed the, as requested, at the bottom Remi went to the door, peered into the hall, and then turned and addressed the taller of the two policemen