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“Do you recall how far that was from the Gun Factory?”
Eddison shrugged “Thousand yards”
“Half a mile,” Bell mused
“Half a sea mile,” Eddison corrected
“Even farther”
“Sonny, I’ll bet you’re speculating if the Jap had son loft”
“Do you think he did?”
“No way of knowing Like I say, the Jap I saas a full thousand yards from the Gun Factory”
“How big is the navy yard?” Bell asked
The old sailor stroked his chin and looked into the ine that between the walls and river, the yard must take up a hundred acres”
“One hundred acres” Nearly as big as a northeastern dairy farm
“Chockful of rounds Plus,” he added with a ardens-where I intercepted hi”
“What do think he was doing there?’
John Eddison smiled “I don’t think I know”
“What do you knoas doing there?”