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front of the building, which was as large as an upscale suburban house, a loggia was covered by a sturdy redwood trellis entwined for decades by a trumpet vine. He jumped from the roof onto the trellis.[542] From the trellis, he leaped to the lawn, allowed his knees to buckle as would a parachutist, fell, rolled, and sprang to his feet.He felt like Vin Diesel.After shrugging out of his backpack, he withdrew from it a gas mask. He tossed the pack aside and put on the mask.The unconscious in the main monitoring room. One sprawled on the floor, and the other slumped in a chair in front of a bank of video monitors.They would be profoundly unconscious for between sixty to eighty minutes. That was plenty of time for Corky to do his job and be gone.He pulled up athe power supply nor the estate-had been affected by the careful severance of outgoing and incoming phone service.In his gas mask, his breathing sounded like that of Darth Vader.central entrance to the groundskeeper’s building was not locked. He stepped into a service foyer.Just like the blueprints.To his right: a door supplies storeroom large enough also to garage the three riding lawnmowers as well as the two electric carts with which Yorn and his day crew moved fertilizer and other materials around the immense Directly ahead were stairs to the second floor.Upstairs, Corky found the two evening-shift guards