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Stuart Woods_Stone Barrington 14

Stuart Woods_Stone Barrington 14

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brilliant suggestion and e-mail them to Lance, if I think one of them might be Teddy.”
    â€œGood.”
    â€œBy the way, the jet is picking us up at noon the day after tomorrow.”
    â€œRegardless of what we learn?”
    â€œThese photos are our last gasp; if none of them is Teddy, we’re out of here. If one of them is Teddy, we’re out of here, too. Dealing with him is somebody else’s job.”
    â€œSounds good to me.”
    â€œMe too,” Dino said. “The sight of that shark off our beach nixed the place for me. I’m not going back in the water past knee-deep.”
    â€œOh, Dino,” Genevieve said, “the shark was just doing what sharks do. We’ve only seen him once, and he probably won’t be back.”
    â€œI’m not going in the same ocean with him,” Dino said, digging into his seafood salad. He held up a forkful. “I’m happy to eat his lunch, but I’m not going to be his lunch.”
    They ate in a leisurely fashion, and after an hour had passed, Holly checked her e-mail.
    There was an e-mail from Ham: “Are you coming by here on your way back to D.C.?”
    â€œI’ll see if we can stop by and pick up Daisy on the way back,” she responded, “but I won’t be able to stay. Give my love to Ginny.” She signed it and sent the mail.
    â€œNothing from Pepper?” Stone asked.
    â€œNope.”
    â€œHow long was it supposed to take?”
    â€œHe said a few minutes to hack into the government computer, and he’d have them to me in an hour.”
    Stone checked his watch. “It’s been an hour and a half.”
    â€œMaybe he got busy at work.”

    A nother hour passed, then two hours, and still nothing had arrived from Pepper. Late in the afternoon, Holly called Lance.
    â€œLance Cabot.”
    â€œIt’s your humble servant; something’s wrong.”
    â€œWhat?”
    â€œPepper was supposed to e-mail me the photos within an hour after we talked. It’s been five hours, and I’ve heard nothing.”
    â€œI suppose he could have become occupied with something else at work, but still, that doesn’t sound right.”
    â€œI’m only supposed to call him at midday on the satphone, so I can’t communicate.”
    â€œHang on, let me think.”
    â€œOkay.” Holly waited through three or four minutes of silence.
    Lance came back on. “Bill has probably already left the office for the day. And I tried his home; no answer.”
    â€œBut if he didn’t have the photos, he could have e-mailed me to let me know.”
    â€œI know, and it doesn’t sound right. I’ve had a look at Bill’s file, and he has a sister in Miami named Doris Pepper. She’s forty-six years old, five-six, a hundred and forty pounds, blonde and pretty. She teaches sixth grade at a public school in Miami. Tomorrow morning, after nine, call Bill’s office, but not on the satphone.” He gave her the number. “When he comes on the line tell him you’re a friend of his sister, and you promised her you’d call him for her. She’s fine, et cetera, et cetera.”
    â€œAnd what is my purpose for the call?”
    â€œTo find out if he’s okay. Don’t talk long, and before you hang up, tell him his sister said to drop her an e-mail sometime. I want to know exactly what his response is. Call me on the satphone as soon as you hang up.”
    â€œOkay. Do you think something is wrong?”
    â€œI always think something is wrong when an agent doesn’t do what he says he’ll do.” Lance hung up.

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    H olly and her party went directly to their table at the inn, but Irene was late and without Harry.
    â€œI’m so sorry,” she said, “and Harry’s even later. He had some business he had to take care of at the marina.” She sat down and accepted a rum punch from the pitcher on the table.
    â€œSo Harry’s sticking around for a while?” Stone asked.
    She smiled. “I must admit, I’m getting used to having him here. He’s good around the house, and a lot of things I was letting go are getting taken care of.”
    â€œGood around the house,” Genevieve said, leering. “I’ll bet he is.”
    â€œWell, that, too,” Irene admitted. “It’s been so long since I lived with a man, I’d forgotten what it was like.”
    Holly felt the same way,

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