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“Get in touch with Lieutenant Casey and tell him that Dr Lee has joined us Contact Joe’s FBI friend and fill her in” He paused in thought, then said, “See what you can do about tracking down the Princess’s logbook”

“We’ll start with Perlmutter and let you know,” Paul said

The Trouts wished the others luck and descended to the tarmac They watched as the Citation X taxied down the runway and leaped into the sky

Paul gazed at the pink-tinged clouds of dawn

“Red sky at ”

“That sort of stuff went out eather satellites went into orbit, Captain Courageous,” Gamay said

Paul was a third-generation fisherman, and weather lore had been passed down in his family from father to son Gamay was annoyed whenever Paul reverted to his old-salt persona

He shtly, and said, “Storm is still a storm”

She took hiear You haven’t seen the stor Perlmutter out of bed”

CHAPTER 31

ST JULIEN PERLMUTTER CUSTOMARILY WORKED INTO THE wee hours and slept until long after the sun had risen So when the telephone beside his king-size water bed gonged like a ship’s bell and awoke the renowned naval historian froe to it

His pudgy hand reached to the bedside table, snatched up the antique French telephone’s receiver, and stuck it to his ear Still groggier than a punch-drunk prizefighter, he boomed, “St Julien Perlmutter here State your bloody daood excuse for calling at this ungodly hour!”

“Goodfemale voice “Hope I didn’t wake you up”

The ruddy features that were alray beard underwent a miraculous Hyde-to-Jekyll transformation The scowl disappeared, the sky blue eyes suddenly sparkled with good humor, and the pink lips under the small tulip nose widened in a warm smile

“Good , my dear Gamay,” Perlmutter purred “Of course you didn’t wake , drea of breakfast”