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"Hi, Denny, I'm Jinx." She fixed him with a dazzling smile.

Denny looked vaguely stunned. It wasn't the first time Cat had seen this
sort of reaction to Jinx. The young man looked around him.

"Listen, you're just here to fix your alternator, right?"

"Right," Cat replied.

"Well, if you don't want to hang around any longer than that takes, I
can probably fix it with this guy for a few bucks, and you can avoid the
formalities."

"How much?"

"Ten bucks American, maybe twenty."

"You're on, Denny," he said to the kid.

Denny spoke to the soldier again and got a sly look and a nod.

"Give him ten," he said to Cat.

Jinx spoke up.

"Cat, are you bribing somebody? You want to get us all arrested?" "Jinx,
clam up," Cat said.

"We're going to get out of here as quickly as possible."

Cat handed the money to the soldier, who turned away without another
word.

"Thanks," Cat said to the kid.

"I really do just want to get our repairs done. I'm off a Swan 43 back
there, name of Catbird. You know anybody around here can lay hands on a
sick alternator?"

"Sure," the boy replied.

"There's a guy up in the town.

Let's pull it off and I'll run it up there for you. You'll have to stay
inside the fenced compound here, unless you want to start messing with
customs."

"You work here?" Cat asked as they climbed down the ladder to the yacht.