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M ROBERT LUDLUM

"It all fit, it was made to fitl" cried jenna. "Bradford said if that call came, I was to run. Another American would be in the lobby with him, watching for the KCB. Theyd take me to the consulate."

"But you didn't leave with them. The woman I saw die wasn't you."

"I couldn't. I suddenly couldn't trust anyone.... Do you remember the incident that night at the caf6 in the Paseo Isabel just before you went to Madrid?"

"The drunk," said Havelock, remembering all too well. "He bumped into you-fell into you, actually-then insisted on shaking your hand and kissing it. He was all over you."

"We laughed about it. You more than V

"I didn't a couple of days later. I was convinced that was when you were given the key to the airport locker."

"Which I never knew about."

"And which I found in your purse because Bradford put it there while he was in the hotel room and I was in Madrid. I assume you excused yourself for a moment or two."

"I was in shock, I was ill. I'm sure I did."

"It explains the radio, the maritime frequency.... What about the drunk?"

"He was the other American in the lobby of the hotel. Why was he there? Who tws be? I went back up as fast as I could.-

"He didn't see youP"

"No, I used the staircase. His face frightened me, I can!t tell you why.

Perhaps because he had pretended to be someone else before, someone so different, I don't know. I do know his eyes disturbed me; they were angry, but they did not look around. He wa&Wt watching the lobby for the KGB; he Page 212

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only kept glancing at his watch. By then I was in a panic myself-confused, and hurt more than I'd ever been hurt in my life. You were going to let me die, and suddenly I oouldift trust them."

'You went back to the room?"

"cod, no, rd have been comered. I went up to the floor, stayed in the stairwell, and tried to think things through. I thought perhaps I was being hysterical, too frightened to act reasonably. Why didn't I trust the Americans? I'd about made up my mind to go back down when I heard noises THE PAMIFAL MOUIC 383

from the corridor inside. I opened the door a bit . . . and knew that I was right to do what I did."

"They came after you?"

"The elevator. Bradford knocked on the door several times, and while he was knocking, the other man-the drunk from the caf6-took out a gun. When there was no answer, they waited until they were sure there was no one in the hallway. Then, with one kick, the man with the gun broke down the door and rushed inside. It was not the action of men who'd come to save someone. I ran."

Havelock, watching her, tried to think. There were so many ambiguities . .

. ambiguity. Where were the outlines of the man who had used the code Ambiguity?

"How did they get your suitcase?" he asked.

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