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"They look slightly confused, Dick," he told Burns with a hint of amusement
"Gentleize for not filling you in more completely while you were here, but the finer points were still being ironed out"
"Finer points?" Zane asked, a bit peevish at being left out of the loop
Ty rubbed his nose and squeezed his eyes closed "Why do you always do this to me?" he asked plaintively
"Because I dislike you quite a lot," Burns told hi the Tri-State case," he went on without waiting for a response "You will appear, to the members of the New York team, to be inexperienced, inept, and lackadaisical If you happen to stulanced over at Zane and s Zane was hard-pressed not to sneer back at hin not on the serial ents Reilly and Sanchez"
"Because you suspect an inside job?" Zane inquired quietly
"Precisely We believe if we can uncover how the killer got to the?" Ty asked eagerly as he sat forward, closer to the speakerphone
"Don’t kill each other," Burns ordered with a smile in his voice "Any future questions, you coe is to be left out of the loop on the off chance he needs to deny knowledge of your operations," he added
Ty and Zane both looked up at McCarty The man did not look pleased, but it was obvious that he’d already had words with Burns regarding the plan
"That will be all, gentleive irls," he added before the line went dead
McCarty looked at the two agents sitting across fro else?" he asked them with a raised eyebrow
"No, sir," Zane answered with a shake of his head
McCartywith the runted unhappily and swept out of the office, leaving Morrison and Henninger behind
Ty sat twirling his pen idly, uner et stuck with this shit?" he asked theer answered in a low voice, a hint of arinned crookedly and nodded "So are we," he responded wryly
Henninger fought hard not to sents and back to Ty "Any ht, Grady?" he asked
"Yeah," Ty answered as he stood and removed his suit jacket He yanked off his tie and threw it onto the table "I need to find htfully
"I’nal’s upstairs," Zane answered absently as he paged through the folder, checking to see if there were ed dubious looks
"You have way too ly He turned to Morrison and Henninger and gave theesture of his hand "Take us to the Bat Cave!" he ordered with a straight face
Morrison’s jaw dropped as he stared at Ty, obviously thinking he was insane His partner looked at him and rolled his eyes "C’ your chain" The two younger agents led the way out,to each other
"You know it’sus to Wayne Manor," Zane said as they followed along, both to et a jab in at Ty while he could "Hide in plain sight and spare no expense account" Sad, but true It was a good thing they weren’t supposed to be completely undercover, or they’d already be spoiled
"That doesn’t even make any sense Shut it, Sidekick," Ty muttered to him
Zane allowed himself a small smile before he remembered how much he actively disliked this man
"You tant breakfast before the hotel?" Morrison asked He seemed to be the talker of the matched set
"The Bat Cave isn’t the hotel," Ty protested in annoyance with a few snaps of his fingers "Get on board the metaphor, kiddies"
"Where the hell is the Bat Cave, then?" Henninger asked with a long-suffering sigh
"The lab, man Take us down to the lab," Ty ordered in exasperation
Zane glanced over the Hardy Boys, struck again by how young they seemed Surely, they’d seen so him feel old
"Well, how the hell are we supposed to know that? You old guys saw all that original crap The new stuff’s a lot better, and the Bat Cave is not a lab," Morrison blustered
Zane blinked Old guys? He glanced to Ty, wondering what sort of fireworks that little coinal anything, SpongeBob?" Ty asked with a s coe I was in the Gulf, man," he continued
"The Gulf of what?" Morrison responded, a blank look in his eyes
"The Persian Gulf," Zane answered sharply, not at all a his eyes in exasperation and shaking his head
Ty didn’t knohether to be more shocked at Morrison’s idiocy or at Zane’s sudden apparent support He just stared at Morrison for a lanced at Zane, who hed "Kids these days," he ents and punched the button on the elevator
The elevator ride was a short one, and when the car jerked to a stop Henninger led the way out "The teaents Reilly and Sanchez," he said quietly as they walked down the hall "We all knew theht now"
"Has the tealanced at hi a jeer "No," he answered curtly as he opened the door to the et ourselves acquainted with the case," Ty ordered<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>