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Driving along the highway, back to Mort's hotel in France, he turned his head to her briefly and asked, "Is that it? Is the game over?"
"For Ted and Amy, yes. Not for you," She replied, a smile upon her face.
He looked at her puzzled for a moment before turning his eyes back on the road.
The girl stared at him, still keeping her smile. Then she glanced at his fuel indicator. "You're running low on gas."
Mort sighed and pulled off at the next exit and into a gas station. He got out and shoved the hose into the car's gas tank. He looked at his Jeep and saw the girl sitting patiently in the passenger's seat.
When the car's gas tank was full, he went into the store to pay. As he came out from the store and made his way back to the car, he glanced through the car's window expecting to see the girl. Only, the girl was gone. Inspecting the car further, he noticed a folded paper stuck under one of the windshield wipers that was blowing in the breeze. He picked it up and opened it.
It was a photocopy of the engraving which portrayed a naked woman riding a seven-headed dragon with a castle ablaze in the background. There was a handwritten message scrawled messily across the paper. It read:
9TH ENGRAVING A FORGERY
CENIZA BROS.
Mort looked up from the paper, his mouth open. Feelings of awe and excitement washed over him.