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.""Given the incompetence of the gaspot who commanded that garrison, they are probably halfway to Mexico by now.""I think they've hauled it together now that Chesterfield's pulled a disappearing act," Remo said.He was scanning the sky for any sign of the helicopter that would take them to Camp Earth."All these mountains look alike to me.In case we don't meet up with them, are you sure you can follow Smith's Page 93ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldirections?"The Master of Sinanju fixed him a baleful glare."If Mad Harold was sane when issuing his instructions, I will find the site.With or without the assistance of his unreliable soldiery."An explosion of stars had taken firm hold of the night sky by the time they arrived in the general area Smith had described.Remo had been driving at speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour until now.As they ripped through this new area of desert, he slowed to eighty.They had just flown around the base of a hill that looked like a giant's foot dropped in the middle of the road when the Master of Sinanju's head suddenly snapped to the right."Halt!" the old Korean commanded.Remo left twin strips of smoking black rubber fifty yards long in his haste to follow the order."What is it?" Remo asked once they had come to a stop.Chiun raised a silencing hand."Backward," the Master of Sinanju insisted.Dutifully Remo put the car in reverse.He backed all the way down the long black skid marks until he was at the point where Chiun had first called out.When they stopped once again, the Master of Sinanju aimed a perilously long finger to the soft shoulder of the road.Leaning over to see out the passenger's window, Remo spotted the fresh tire tracks in the sand."So what?" Remo asked."They belong to the vehicle that eluded us," Chiun announced with certainty.He immediately thought better of his choice of words."Eluded you," he amended.Remo didn't seem convinced."Are you sure?" he asked."We're wasting valuable time if you're just going to take us around in circles on some wild-goose chase.""Need I remind you that you chased a goose into the desert yesterday, only to find a jackass." Remo's face clouded."I didn't hear you objecting too strenuously at the time.""That is because I wished for you to get this crazed-gander pursuit out of your system once and for all.Now we go after our true quarry."Smiling faintly, Remo shook his head."Bullshit artist," he muttered under his breath.He thought he had spoken softly enough that Chiun hadn't heard."Coming from you, O Bullheaded One, I will take that as a compliment," Chiun announced loudly.Settling back in his seat he waved a bony hand dramatically toward the mountain path."Drive, bovine!"Steering off the main road, Remo tore up the shadowy mountain trail.Chapter 25Pry bars were carried hurriedly from a dilapidated storage area near Beta RAM's hut.The heavy iron rods were dropped unceremoniously to the sand, followed by many of the residents of Camp Earth.Crawling, squatting, sliding across the dirt, they worked feverishly to brush aside the sand and clay from the large wooden lid.The pry bars were hastily shoved into the space between lid and lip, and the nails securing the cover to the thick wooden walls popped free one by one.With a final, furious wrench, the lid was ripped free and tossed aside.Most of the residents of Camp Earth had seen a movie years before where survivalists like themselves had hidden weapons in a hole in the ground.When the Camp Earthers had first moved into the wilds of New Mexico, they'd decided to copy their cinematic counterparts.No one realized that in the film the weapons cache had been carved in dirt.It took months of dynamite and pickaxes for the Camp Earthers to clear the hole they stood in now.It hadn't occurred to any of them to dig where the sand was deep-two hundred yards away on the plateau whereon squatted the hut in which Arthur Ford had revived his precious alien.Dust-covered tarps were pulled away.Automatic weapons were passed up out of the burrow
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