pgs. 273-304 Summary

Ellen Feller receives a promotion with her new assignment. She is now an Intelligence Analyst and on her way to her new assignment in Hawaii when she leaves the hotel. She answers Fleming's knock at her hotel room door wearing a translucent dressing gown. He tells her to get dressed since his wife is on her way up. They all have lunch together and then take Ellen to the boat, the President Milliard G. Fillmore, which had once been Pickering's Pacific Princess.

Barbara Cotter is also aboard the boat. Ernie, Ken and Joe are there to see her off when Ernie recognizes the Pickerings. Joe stood there and watched until the ship was out of sight.

Pickering travels to Melbourne and send his Top Secret correspondence to Knox. He did not go to the Philippines because he would have arrived after...