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A week later Avery Tolleson and Mitch left for the Cayman Island to do some tax work for a client. They landed on Grand Cayman, a jewel of land surroundedby clear blue sea. And on Grand Cayman there were only 18,000 people, but 12,000 businesses had their head offices there on paper, and there were 300 banks.

They settled into the firm’s apartments and Avery wished them to go to Rumheads, an open-air bar on the beach. As night fell, Avery was supposed to be heavily drunk and a pair of sisters joined them at their table. Soon one of them was sitting on Avery’s knees and the other one wanted Mitch to dance with her.

He pushed her away roughly and went for a walk along the beach. In the darkness, all alone on the beach, with only the stars in the sky and the lights of a few boats, another beautiful woman approached him. She quietly took off her bikini and wanted Mitch to look after it while she went for a swim. When she came back, rising out of the water and brushing her long wet hair off her face and body, they made love. ‘Who will ever know?’ Mitch thought.

In the morning neither of them felt like doing business. In the taxi to the Royal Bank of Montreal, where they had an appointment, Avery cheerfully explained that he liked drinking and women. After they had completed their business at the bank Avery went off to meet the woman he had spent the night with, leaving Mitch to wander around the town.

Mitch went to the library and found a newspaper for 27 June of that year. He sat down beside a window to read it. He looked out of the window and saw a man getting out of a car and crossing the street towards the library. He recognized the car: he had also seen it near the bank in the morning. Mitch didn’t want the man to see himand pretendedto be looking at a business magazine in another part of the room.

The man, who was small and dark, came into the library. In a few minutes he appeared in the room where Mitch was. He walked past Mitch, paused as if to check what he was reading, and left the room. Mitch read the newspaper story about the explosion on the boat which had killed two American lawyers and their diving guide. He left the library and walked quickly along narrow, crowded streets. Then he caught a taxi to Abanks Diving School. The newspaper had said that the guide who owned the diving school was Philip Abanks.

Mitch wished Abanks to speak. He agreed to. He was certain Philip had nothing to do with drugs. The accident had surprised him because the boat was found a long way from where it was supposed to be, but Philip hadn’t used the radio to tell the school about their new position, as an experienced boatman like himself would. He also hadn’t radioed about any engine trouble. The boat’s engine exploded, but the three bodies were found unharmed, in full diving clothes; they had just drowned, although all three were experienced divers.

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