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"I an," I told Bullert over the cell phone "I’ as no one gets hurt If these guys shoot someone…"

"Let’s hope for an uneventful criminal enterprise, then," he said

"Christ"

"In the ot the guns through a military connection, an army buddy turned merc, maybe"

I ended the call, erased Bullert’s nu just in case, deactivated the phone, and returned it to my pocket Shortly after, my hands filled with cardboard coffee cups, I opened the café door withlot The Corolla was still there; the elderly h Roy Clark had been swapped for Loretta Lynn--I guessed this hat amounted to Golden Oldies in Silver Bay I returned to the Jeep Cherokee and handed Skarda his coffee through the open passenger

"You were gone so long," he said "I was starting to get worried"

"I took a minute to use the john," I said I circled the SUV and entered through the driver’s door "Anything interesting happening?"

"Just the armored car"

"What armored car?"

Skarda handed me the binoculars, and I studied the blue vehicle, the name Mesabi Security printed on its side It was a decidedly old ar the wheel wells and rocker panels The driver sat in the cab, therolled down, his elbow propped on the door fra He set it on the ground behind the truck where the driver couldn’t possibly have seen hi inside, and then climbed in after it

"Very, very sloppy," I said

"Huards I could take those cloith a slingshot Okay, look--you had better contact Josie and have her call off the job"

"I can’t I don’t have a cell phone What happened to the one we bought yesterday?"

"I tossed it Look, we have to head them off somehow"