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She looked at hily for a ain"

The train slowed to a stop, and Pitt and Giordino disembarked They

walked fro platforon wheel spokes into a vast labyrinth

"Nohich way?" asked Giordino

"We go dead ans to the K Section," Pitt said, as he set off into the center corridor "We want to avoid the security office like the plague"

Walking along what seemed to be an endless corridor, they passed nu furnished They looked in and saw spacious living quarters on a par with luxury condouard had referred to them as residences

The plan was for the occupants to live as co wait before they could establish their community on as left of the earth after the comet's collision

Paintings were spaced every thirty feet along the walls between the doors to the residences Giordino stopped briefly and examined a landscape in vivid colors He leaned close and peered at the artist's scrawled name

"No way can this be a Van Gogh," he said skeptically "It ery or a reproduction"

"It's genuine," said Pitt, with conviction Heon the walls "These works doubtless come from the museums and the private collections of Holocaust victi World War Two"

"How charitable of theed to them"

"The Wolfs plan to carry the great masterworks to the promised land"

How could the Wolfs be so positive that the second co of the comet would strike the earth? Pitt wondered Why wasn't it possible the coain, as it had nine thousand years before?

There were no ready answers, but once he and Giordino could escape the shipyard with Pat and her daughter, he was determined to find solutions

After what Giordino estie door marked "Security, Level K" They hurried past and finally came to a tastefully decorated reception area with tables, chairs, and sofas in front of a large fireplace It could have passed for a lobby in any five-star hotel A reen coveralls sat behind a counter beneath a large painting of Noah's Ark