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"You’re not going to get aith this," Kat said, and the man looked at her

"I’m sorry about your uncle, Miss Bishop I really aet that I know all about you and your fa questions about what happened to Reginald Hale, or your uncle, for thatto find a very thick file full of very nasty secrets Take it fro up Hale fao"

"Oh, that’s okay" Kat felt the rock and sway of the train, held on to the back of one of the seats to stay upright "I don’t think anyone is going to be too concerned about Reginald, considering he’s been dead for fifty years"

"But…" The man’s eyes ide and his voice trailed off when the door at the back of the car slid open

"Youover her shoulder, and for a moment the attorney was so quiet that Kat had to wonder if Garrett even recognized Uncle Eddie

Gone were Reginald’s clothes and his cane He’d traded his lihtly inferior posture, and there was no way thedown the aisle would ever be confused with a member of the Hale family He looked like a man who missed his stove and his kitchen But he was also a man as very much alive

"You…" Garrett muttered "You’re dead I saw you at the bottom of a cliff"

"Did you?" Eddie asked as, behind hiain and Eddie’s twin brother, Charlie, came to stand beside him "Did you really?"

The uard who sat in the next row "Stop theoon stood and spoke with a deep Scottish brogue "I probably shouldn’t do that It would set a terrible exaus and Hamish?"

"Don’t worry, Uncle Roy They’ll meet up with us in a bit I had a little errand for them" Then Kat seemed to notice the look on Garrett’s face "What?" she asked hie fah "It doesn’t change anything The prototype is gone, and I still knohere all the Hale family skeletons are buried If you try to follow ret it"

"No"--Hale stepped closer, leaning over the cowering ain, Hale glanced out the"This is our stop"

Atoward the car Kat actually waved at the woroup

"See," she said, "that’s my friend at Interpol I told her all about you, and she’s here to have a chat"

But Garrett didn’t tremble Instead, he actually huffed "I’m an attorney, Miss Bishop I haven’t broken any Swiss laws"

Kat smiled Hale chuckled The two of thelance before Hale said, "Then it’s a good thing we aren’t in Switzerland, isn’t it?"

"What…what do you mean?"

"There was a probleot diverted We crossed the border into France twenty us and Hah the

"You know my uncle Roy, but I don’t think you’ve lass "What they do best is blow things up"

"Things like train tracks," Hale said

"Mr Garrett?" A down the aisle toward theave a little nod to Kat and Hale, and turned her full attention to the man in the hat

"I have sos"

That Interpol’s senior liaison to the European Union was there that day to handle theno one really questioned It was her tip Her call And if she chose not to interview the other people on the train, that too was her decision

So the passengers of the 12:10 to Geneva were free to climb from the car and out onto the platform without a question or a doubt And no one froreatest thieves in the world walked out of the station and blew to the far corners of the earth

Chapter 46

Walking toward the private plane with Gabrielle and W W Hale the Fifth, Kat should have felt at least a little bit nostalgic It was a fah his ars were finally back to nor?" she asked

"I’ to enjoy this while it lasts"

"Why?" she said "Are you planning on an early retirehed "It’s just that the jet belongs to Hale Industries, and Hale Industries is over" He sighed "But on the upside, I guess we’re getting ready to find out if you really only love ht love you for your jet," Gabrielle said, straight-faced

He smiled at Kat "What about you?"

"Yeah," Kat said, nodding "I guess that is the question" She looked up at hiht, clear sun "So…Hale Industries? You really think it’s over?"

Hale looked ahead, as if the jet wasn’t right in front of thee

"Without the prototype, yeah I guess we can sell off all the pieces, but the coo on Funny I didn’t think I’d miss it," he said

"But…"

"I think I an" Kat didn’t know she’d said the words aloud until Hale spun on her, took her small shoulders in his hand

"What’s that supposed toyou ran to when you wanted to try another life I’ experio back home"