"You didn't think coming to my room was out of line?" Peter asked. "He wasn't talking about my sex life, so long as I don't make Werner look like a fool. He was talking about..."
"Making yourself rich getting Jews out of Sachsenhausen?" Peter asked.
"You'll get us both killed, Peter, and my father killed, and maybe even yours, if you ever let those words out of your mouth again. Here, or anywhere else. Do you understand that?"
"Yes. We never had any of this conversation. You were never here." She shook her head.
"I was here. I may have been followed. Or the car was seen. If I'm asked, I'll say I was here. And you too."
"All right," Peter said. "So what do we do now?"
She turned and took the bottle of champagne from the cooler, filled her glass, and walked to the bed.
"What do you think we do now, Liebchen?" Inge asked. She got into the bed, rested her back against the headboard, met Peter's eyes, and deliberately tilted the champagne glass and spilled champagne down her breast.
"Remember this, Peter?" she asked, and motioned for him to come to her.
Chapter Sixteen
[ONE]
Estancia San Pedro y San Pablo
Near Pila, Buenos Aires Province
0230 14 April 1943
The lights went on in the apartment of el Patron, startling him. He sat up quickly in bed and saw Chief Schultz and Enrico.
"You scared the hell out of me," Clete confessed. "What's up?"
"You got a reply on the oh one thirty call," Chief Schultz said. "Should I have waited until morning?"
"No, of course not," Clete said, pushing himself up against the headboard and reaching for the sheet of paper Schultz extended to him.
TOP SECRET LINDBERGH
URGENT
DUPLICATION FORBIDDEN
MSG NO 2545 DDWHO 1650 GREENWICH 13APR43
PROM ORACLE WASHDC
TO STACRTEF AGGIE
REFERENCE YOUR NO. 0002
ORACLE DIRECTS YOU FURNISH QUICKEST MEANS IDENTITY CAVALRY AND GALAHAD AND PROVIDE REASONS YOU BELIEVE THEY HAVE ACCESS TO INTELLIGENCE DESCRIBED.
AIRCRAFT (HEREAFTER PARROT) WILL BE AVAILABLE PORTO ALEGRE BRAZIL AIR STATION (HEREAFTER BIRDCAGE) AFTER 1700 GREENWICH 16 APR43. COLONEL J.B. WALLACE USAAC USAAC (HEREAFTER BIRDDOG) WILL RELEASE PARROT TO YOU ON YOUR FURNISHING HIM YOUR NEW ORLEANS TELEPHONE NUMBER.
BIRDDOG ADVISES PARROT WILL BE MARKED AS REQUESTED AND PAINTED APPROXIMATELY DESIRED COLOR; HAS 1600 MILE RANGE; CIVILIAN ONLY REPEAT CIVILIAN ONLY RADIO AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM. REQUESTED ON SITE TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR YOU AND COPILOT.
ADVISE UNDERSIGNED QUICKEST MEANS WHEN PARROT MOVEMENT COMMENCED AND COMPLETED.
GRAHAM END