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convincing to do. There was still a great deal about the Chambers Bay situation that Kendall didn't know anything about.
There was a lot to be said for Kendall's plan. The RCMP sweep was militarily efficient, and we had the right gear for it. The men had already been through the exercise twice, and they knew what to do. The downside risk was equally obvious. Kendall was needlessly exposing his men to another encounter with one or more of the creatures that had already proven to be more than any one man could handle.
The Wages plan, on the other hand, was the flip side of the coinand, to be fair, its primary appeal was to long-shot lovers. Before Kendall would consent to my plan, though, he would have to be convinced we knew what we were talking about, and that wasn't going to be easy. All this was compounded by the fact that neither Madden nor I had any experience with caves, and there was no sure way of knowing for certain if our two-thumbed, three-fingered adversaries had gravitated to the underground network for their Chambers Bay sanctuary.
I was basing a great deal of my hypothesis on the belief that there was a system of subterranean tunnels and passageways in, around and under Chambers Bay. It is a known fact that caves exist throughout North America and that they are almost always found in and around the Great Lakes

 
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