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He considered the possibility that the prisoners had escaped or the even wilder possibility that soh theIt occurred to hi up the phone and stepped cautiously fro out his pistol as he approached the door

He doused the lights in the hall and pushed the door open, swinging the gun forward

He saw nothing but darkness Then a breeze wafted across the room, and he saw the illuminated mist outside the shattered

He checked all around but saw nothing odd, and definitely no intruders Still, so had to have broken the

He eased toward it, the glass crunching under his feet So next to the hull He stepped closer and saw a strange-looking sailboat Another floated next to it Neither looked like soht use He took another step, heard a strange buzzing noise and then felt his whole body tense up as if he’d been shocked with a high-voltage line

Pain ran up and down his arue as his jaw clalass and dropping the pistol The pain vanished as he hit the floor but the effect lingered

A figure vaulted over the sill of the busted , landing beside him

The guard reached around for the gun he’d dropped, and then felt a heavy boot coers He yanked his hand back, grunting, and then was knocked cold by the butt of a rifle that hit him in the side of the head

FROM THEIR CELL GAMAY, Paul and Marchetti watched as Kurt and a couple of others tossed up grappling hooks and began cli They couldn’t see the brokenfrom their viewpoint, but Marchetti had no doubt it was one or two doors aft of where they were

“Doesn’t et rid of the goons at the post and we’re home free”

Commotion outside their door drew Gamay’s attention away “Could it be them?”

“Too soon,” Paul said

“Then it’s the guards”

Gamay sprinted back toward her post beside the door She heard the guard’s card key in the lock, heard the lock buzz and release She dove across the floor and slid into the wall next to the power outlet just as the door began to swing open

Paul’s plan to use theAs Ga into the outlet, hoping she wasn’t too late