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Dolan shrugged noncoht compare it to a police- the streets

The cop can see it's a boy with two ars, approximately two years old The kid's clothes are J C Penney, and his shoes are Buster Browns He says his first name is Joey, but he doesn't know his surname, address, or phone number We're in the same boat, Mr Pitt, as that cop"

"Could you translate your analogue into factual detail?" Pitt asked, s

"Please observe," Dolan said with a professional flourish He produced a ball-point pen from a breast pocket and probed it about like a pointer "We have before us the frontal landing gear of an aircraft, an aircraft that weighed in the neighborhood of seventy or eighty thousand pounds It was a propeller-driven craft, because the tires were not constructed for the stresses of a high-speed jet landing Also, the strut design is of a type that has not been built since the nineteen fifties Therefore, its age is somewhere between thirty and forty-five years The tires ca, in Chicago As to the make of the aircraft and its owner, however, I'o on"

"So it ends here," Pitt said

"You throw in the towel too early," said Dolan "There is a perfectly legible serial number on the strut If we can deterear ned for, then it becoh thethe parent aircraft"

"You make it sound easy" i

"Any other fragments?"

"Only what you see"

"How did you co them here?"

"I figured that if anybody could identify them, it wouldbe the Federal Aviation Administration"

"Putting us on the spot, huh?" Dolan said, grinning

"Noback

"Not ht get lucky"

He made a thumbs-down motion toward a spot circled with red paint on the concrete floor The forklift operator nodded and lowered the pallet holding the parts Then he wheeled the forklift backward, cut a ninety-degree right turn, and clanked off toward another corner of the hangar