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Chapter Ten
Florence and Rome were safely negotiated. Linda went to the airport to meet Donald, Rose-Anne, and Peter and discovered that Peter had missed the plane. Fortunately, he had managed to have Rose-Anne paged at the airport before she boarded and tell her which flight he expected to make. Linda sent Rose-Anne and Donald ahead in a cab, leaving the car she had rented in the parking area, and settled down to wait.
Donald had urged her to leave Peter to get to the hotel as best he could. Cabs, after all, were plentiful.
"I would just love to," Linda snapped with sincere irritation, "but he doesn't know where we're staying because we had to shift hotels. And, frankly, I don't trust the system here to get a message to him."

 
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