"You, Herr Loche, will make sure the truck, ready for operation, is at the prescribed place at the prescribed hour. I suggest you leave shortly to make sure all is in readiness."
"Jawohl, Herr Baron Major!" Gustav Loche replied, taking his cue from Steuben.
Peter picked up the map, motioned for Herr Loche to follow him, and walked across the room to a floor lamp.
"Indicate where your part in this operation is to take place, if you please, Herr Loche."
Loche's face went white and showed acute discomfort.
"Excuse me, Herr Baron Major," he began hesitantly.
"You have forgotten already? You are not sure, is that what you're saying?"
"Herr Baron Major, both Herr Standartenf?hrer Goltz and Herr Oberst Gr?ner made it quite clear to me that the landing site was not-"
"-to be revealed to anyone who did not have a need to know?" Peter in-terrupted.
"Yes, Herr Baron Major."
"Herr Steuben does not have the need to know," Peter said. "Which is why I brought you over here with me, so that he cannot see where you will point at the map. And your diligence is appreciated, Herr Loche, and I will mention it to Standartenf?hrer Goltz. But did you really think that I was not privy to this in-formation? That the Herr Standartenf?hrer would send me down here not knowing where I am to meet you and the truck? What I am doing here, Loche, is making sure there is no confusion in your mind about where you are to be."
"Excuse me, Herr Baron Major," Loche said. "I was not thinking. You will have to understand that I am..."
"Where, Loche?" Peter demanded impatiently.
Loche pointed to a small inlet on the shoreline of Samboromb¢n Bay. There were no villages near it, but the coastal highway was no more than half a mile away.
"There, Herr Baron Major. Right there."
"There is no question in your mind?"
Loche considered that.
"None, Herr Baron Major."
"Very well," Peter said.
He folded the map and put it in his pocket and walked back across the room to G?nther.
"You, G?nther..."
"Yes, Herr Baron Major?"
"You and I will take the Coronel Gasparo on our mission."
"Jawohl, Herr Baro
n Major!"
"I have some other business in Magdalena," Peter announced. "If you will be so good, Herr Steuben, you will wait for me to return in case I need you. G?nther, you may go to bed."
"Of course, Herr Baron Major," Steuben said.
"Thank you, Herr Baron Major," G?nther said.
"Presumably, Herr Loche, you have a car here to take you to the ren-dezvous site?"
"Yes, of course, Herr Baron Major. Actually a small truck."