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Giordino adjusted a spectral i scope over his face mask and switched it on The landscape suddenly htly fuzzy but distinct enough to see pebbles on the ground half an inch in diameter He turned to Pitt

"Tio?"

Pitt nodded "Since you can see our way on land, you lead off and I'll take over e reach the water"

Giordino si Until they could safely penetrate the security defenses around the shipyard, there was nothing to say Pitt did not require telepathic powers to knoas in Giordino's mind He was mentally relivi

ng the sa as Pitt

They were back six thousand miles in distance and twenty hours in time in Ad their way into what had to be a scheme born under a cloud of madness

"MISTAKES were "

"I thought she was under round-the-clock surveillance by security agents," Pitt said, annoyed at Ken Helm

"All anyone knows at this point is that she drove her daughter to get some ice cream While the wards sat outside the store in their car, Dr O'Connell and her daughter went inside and never came out It seems impossible that such a spur-of-the-moment event by O'Connell could be known in advance by the abductors"

"Meaning the Wolfs" Pitt slammed his fist on the table "Why do we continually underestimate these people?"

"I suppose you'll be even less happy to hear the rest," Sandecker said somberly

Pitt looked at hiuess Elsie Wolf has disappeared fro with the body of her cousin, Heidi"

Sandecker wiped an iinary speck from the polished surface of the conference table "Believe ent Ken Hely in security-detection equipment"

"Didn't your surveillance cameras reveal her escape?" asked Pitt irritably "Elsie obviously didn't walk through the front door with her dead cousin thrown over her shoulder"

Helave a brief tilt of his head "The cameras were fully operational, and the monitors observed every second I'm sorry-- no, shocked-- to say that no trace of the breakout was recorded"