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“I don’t understand”

His eyes flicked to the desk that he was sitting in front of Sylvia followed his gaze and saw his phone

“You want me to pick up your phone?” she asked

She got an affirmative response, and she realized why he wanted her to use it She picked it up and held it up to his face to unlock it Then she searched for the word “Morse” on his phone It didn’t have an internet connection, but she found an application that could translate audible Morse code into letters

She held it close to Mark’s hand and wrote each letter onto a notepad as it was translated After a few ot it down correctly

SATELLITE PHONE

“Of course,” she said, feeling stupid for not thinking of it herself “The satellite phone in your cabin”

She could make a call with it once she found it in the mess of his room But who could she trust? The fact that they’d been found out in the middle of the ocean made it possible that the attack was an inside job But why? What was the purpose?

The one thing she was sure of was that soeted them specifically This couldn’t have been a random attack, not when it had been carried out so precisely with such advanced weaponry

“Who should we call?” she wondered aloud

Mark began tapping again When he was done, Sylvia looked at what she’d written and said, “Are you sure?”

Mark nodded

Although Mark had never mentioned a name to her, there was a man her brother had spoken of reverently on several occasions, so Sylvia had faith in Mark’s judgh the list of contacts on his cell phone until she found the entry, which had just a phone number and one word for the nae that she had scrawled on the notepad

CALL CHAIRMAN

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