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she planned for this contingency? Marina knew just how much money Camilla had receivedshe knew to the penny, since she had disbursed it. And, at least to date, Camilla hadn't any other grateful patrons; Marina had made sure of that. No, Camilla didn't have enough money to be impervious to danger, only enough to indulge her childish greediness. She would run for a day, a week, perhaps even a month. But she would be caught, indicted, and convicted. Vincent Kellner's few friends would mourn and, at the same time, his many enemies would rejoice in his downfall. |
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Marina craned her neck, trying to hear what the Englishman from the BBC was asking about this rumored purge in Moscow, but the noise in the plane made it impossible. She could have screamed in frustration. Who had been supposedly purged, and by whom? She tried to comfort herself by deciding that Soyuz must have succeeded. For one thing, Kondratiev's orders had not spelled out his usual organized listing of specific tasks to be carried out. His only requirement was the elimination of Karmann. He had not even specified the method she should use. The most important hour of his life was swiftly approaching, and Piotr Kondratiev was ready for it. For the first time, she wondered what sort of quasi-czar Kondratiev would make. She shuddered, and not entirely from the cold that pervaded the interior of this rattling tinplane. |
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The Canadian officer had explained that the press plane would land at the Eskimo Point airstrip, close to the hastily built camp at Site X, today, December 5. They could look around everywhere at the camp except in the most dangerous areas and interview those who were involved. An official briefing as to what the device was and how it could be defused would be held tomorrow, December 6. Those who came in today, plus any others scheduled to leave prior to H-hour, would be flown out of the site to safety in the very early morning hours on December 7. That was the day the Russian and Canadian diving teams were to attempt to deactivate the mechanism. |
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