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“Fine,” Devlin said “So he got you on with us and had you put aboard the Java Dawn But the ship—this ship—it went down I saw it That was no illusion”

Janko exhaled like a parent tiring of questions from a curious child “No, Padi, it wasn’t”

“How the hell did you do it, then?”

“Follow me,” Janko said “You’re about to find out”

Janko led Devlin in through the h a second, inner hatch For the first time, Devlin noticed that the outer section of the ship was left pretty much as it had been when he’d seen it years back It looked neglected, disused But once they passed the inner hatch, things were different

Soon, Devlin found hies, radarscopes, and graphic displays surrounded hie screens on the front ere set up like the forward view froray sky and the cold sea ahead of the ship, piped in froroup of video cameras

“When did all this get done?”

“I told you,” Janko insisted, “the changes were made before the ship was towed off the beach”

“But we inspected it for leaks”

“The outer hull only,” Janko reminded him “Besides, I ith you to make sure you didn’t stray into any sensitive areas”

Devlin remembered now They’d checked the repair job and the lower decks, the engine rooe No one had bothered with the inner spaces of the ship

Janko turned his attention to one of the crewmen “Switch to infrared”

The crewht-hand screen cycled The color changed froe hue Suddenly, the clouds, one The visibility that had been less than a e, cone-shaped island suddenly took up the center of the monitor The central peak soared thousands of feet into the sky It seemed impossible to have been athe island so thoroughly

Even as his eyes were groide, Devlin’s ears began to pop “What’s happening?”

“Inner hull pressurized,” one of the crew”