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to be a vacation!"
    "Oh, it will be. The kind of vacation I like best"
    The older woman shook her head. "You and your classes and projects! I can hardly keep track of what you're into from one week to the next Don't forget to take a look around at the rest of your classmates. Maybe you'll find a genuine knight in shining armor. What better place to discover one than in a class on chivalry?"
    Sabrina's mouth curved wryly. "Maggie, knights in shining armor are as rare as unicorns these days, and you know it. But I promise to bring back a full report of the lectures if you really want it."
    "Spare me! Unlike you, my interests don't run the gamut from wine-tasting to Arthurian legends and every odd byway in the middle. What on earth do you do with all the miscellaneous facts and trivia you learn at all these seminars, Sabrina?"
    "A librarian can use all sorts of tidbits in her work. Besides, look at the wealth of conversational material it gives me for chatting with strangers at parties like this one!
    Good night, Maggie. I'll send you a postcard from Hawaii!"
    With a casual wave, Sabrina took her leave, escaping through the front door of the elegant hillside home. The party had been a pleasant one as parties went, and Maggie Compton was a good friend, but Sabrina had had enough for one evening. And she really did have to start packing for her trip. She realized as she hurried down the steps toward the row of cars parked along the winding street that she wasn't even particularly curious about whom Rick Shepherd might take home later that night. She nodded her head once in silent satisfaction. She'd come a long way since that fateful decision two years ago when she had made up her mind once and for all to treat men the same way she treated her various and assorted intellectual interests. Like the many classes and seminars she attended, her current relationships tended to be short-lived, amusing and emotionally uninvolving.
    And life, Sabrina assured herself as she dug out the keys to the MG, had never been better. She had just about everything she wanted, didn't she? Not including this bodyguard she was stuck with, naturally. Oh, well. If it made her busy mother happier to know her daughter was going to Hawaii accompanied by someone out of a kung-fu film, she, Sabrina, could tolerate it. The vague threats which had come into the headquarters of her mother's high-technology firm would soon be dealt with, she was certain. For ten days she could put up with the inconvenience of a baby-sitter.
    Perhaps he could busy himself teaching self-defense to little kids on the beach.
    That thought made her smile whimsically. How many professional bodyguards taught children as a source of regular income? She was still smiling faintly when she reached the MG and bent down to unlock the door.
    Sabrina never even heard the shadowy figure which materialized out of the darkness behind her. The instinctive scream which came to her lips as she felt the touch of a man's hand was silenced before it began, cut off by the hard, callused palm which clamped itself over her mouth.
    In her panic Sabrina kicked out wildly, struggling with the ferocity of a small cornered animal fighting for its life. But her captor overwhelmed her with frightening ease. He didn't strike her, yet she was rendered helpless in a matter of seconds, her wrists bound behind her with a strip of cloth, her mouth and eyes sealed with more of the same. The attacker said nothing during the entire process of binding her, not wasting breath on useless warnings against struggling. Sabrina got the impression he didn't particularly care whether or not she fought back. The end result would be the same.
    Within seconds she was being swept off her feet and dumped into the passenger seat of the MG. Trembling with a rage which bordered on fear, she tried to throw herself back out of the car and onto the sidewalk. How could this be happening right here in front of Maggie Compton's home? Surely one of