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night's sleep. Two hour watchesI'll take the first." "By yourself?" It was Miller caffing softly from the other end of the room. "Don't you think we should share watches, boss? One for the front, one for the back. Besides, you know we're all pretty well done up. One man by himself might fall asleep." He sounded so anxious that Mallory laughed. "Not a chance, Dusty. Each man will keep watch by the window there and if he falls asleep he'll damn' soon wake up when he hits the floor. And it's because we're so darned bushed that we can't afford to have anyone lose sleep unnecessarily. Myself first, then you, then Panayis, then Casey, then Andrea." "Yeah, I suppose that'll be O.K.," Miller conceded grudgingly. He put something hard and cold into his hand. Mallory recognised it at onceit was Miller's most cherished possession, his silenced automatic. "Just so's you can fill any nosy customers full of little holes without wakin' the whole town." He ambled off to the back of the room, lit a cigarette, smoked it quietly for a few moments, then swung his legs up on the bench. Within five minutes everyone except the silently watchful man at the window was sound asleep. Two or three minutes later Mallory jerked to unmoving attention as he heard a stealthy sound outside-from the back of the house, he thought. The clacking of the looms next door had stopped, and the house was very still. Again there came the noise, unmistakable this time, a gentle tapping at the door at the end of the passage that led from the back of the room. "Remain there, my Captain." It was Andrea's soft murmur, and Mallory marveled for the hundredth time at Andrea's ability to rouse himself from the deepest of sleeps' at the slightest alien sound: the violence of a thunderstorm would have left him undisturbed. "I will see to it. It must be Louki." It was Louki. The little man was panting, near exhaustion, but extraordinarily pleased with himself. Gratefully he drank the cup of wine that Andrea poured for him. "Damned glad to see you back again!" Mallory said sincerely. "How did it go? Someone after you?" Mallory could almost see him drawing himself up to his full height in the darkness. "As if any of these clumsy fools could see Louki, even on a moonlit night, far less catch him," he said indignantly. He paused to draw some deep breaths. "No, no, Major, I knew you would be worried about me so I ran back all the way. Well, nearly all the way," he amended. "I am not so young as I was, Major Mallory." "All digital camera review for sony the way from where?" Mallory asked. He was glad of the darkness that hid his smile. "From Vygos. It is an old castle that the Franks built there many generations ago, about two miles from here along the coast road to the east." He paused to drink another mouthful of wine. "More than two miles, I would sayand I only walked twice, a minute at a time, on the way back." Mallory had the impression that Louki already regretted his momentary weakness in admitting that he was no longer a young man. "And what did you do there?" Mallory asked. "I was thinking, after I left you," Louki answered indirectly. "Me, I am always thinking," he explained. "It is a habit of mine. I was thinking that when the soldiers who are looking for us out in the Devil's Playground find out that the car is gone, they will know that we are no longer in that accursed place." "Yes," Mallory agreed carefully. "Yes, they will know that." "Then they will say to themselves, 'Ha, those verdammt Englanders have little time left. They will know that we will know that they have little hope of catching us in the islandPanayis and I, we know every rock and tree and path and cave. So all they can do is to make sure that we do not get into the townthey will block every road leading in, and to-night is our last chance to get in. You follow me?" he asked anxiously. "I'm trying very hard." "But first" (Louki spread his hands dramatically) "but first they will make sure we are not in the town. They would be fools to block the roads if we were already in the town. They must make sure we are not in the town. And sothe search. The very great search. Withhow do you say?the teeth-comb!" Mallory nodded his head in slow understanding. "I'm afraid he's right, Andrea." "I, too, fear so," Andrea said unhappily. "We should have thought of this. But perhaps we could hidethe roof-tops or" "With a teeth-comb, I said!" Louki interrupted impatiently. "But all is well. I, Louki have thought it all out. I can smell rain. There will be clouds over the moon before long, and it will be safe to move. . . . You do not want to know what I have don? with the car, Major Mallory?" Louki was enjoying himself immensely. "Forgotten all