Mike Dixon

t took a while for David and Tim to get their act to-
I gether. Their first problem was to find a relief manager
for the Dive Centre. Three days of fruitless searching
went by and they were wondering what to do when help
came from an unexpected quarter. Janet arrived saying
she‟d been sacked and was looking for a job.
Another surprise came when David went round to the
Hansens to collect the translation of Tong Yee‟s journal.
Kirstin was there to meet him. She said Humph and Jan
worked for the same government agency and they‟d both
lost their jobs.
Kirstin wouldn‟t go into details but said it was lucky she
had taken the journal to her office in the university library.
As far as David could make out, the Hansen house had
been searched and a lot of papers taken. By good chance,
the journal was not amongst them.
Janet was now in charge of the Dive Centre. David re-
garded her as mad but that was no reason for rejecting her
services. They needed someone to run the place while they
were away hunting for the gold. Tim was sleeping with her
and David occupied a lonely bed in the room next door.
Their lovemaking sounded wilder than anything he had experienced
with Sue Lynne. On some occasions he won-
dered if he was missing out. On others he wondered what
it was all about.
After a week they were ready to leave. Janet went
through a checklist of everything needed to drive to Cooktown
and mount an expedition out to sea. She did it with
her usual overkill, making a big performance out of everything.
Apart from that, David couldn‟t fault her.
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