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But as the others climbed back into the boat, Willem chanced to find a hidden drawer containing an item of inestimable value. Laughing at how awful they smelled, they ran back to the B and B to shower and shampoo. But Dougless was beginning to think. “Let’s take these back to the hotel,” she said.

Now what? she thought. In Java, as you know. And Commissioner van Doorn, who sensed that sooner or later he would be called upon to break this deadlock, was morally agitated. He had stayed as long as they hadn’t made love, but once he’d touched her, he’d been taken away.