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Milo pursed his lips "You’re going too fast"

"I’m not," she said, and flipped both her hands upside down The screens obediently stopped "Those sensors are a ludicrous waste of resources, by the way Whatever happened to a rened the math for the sensors It’s based on a differential of--"

"Yes, yes, I know," she snapped With an iain "Look here The night Leander disappeared We have hi o, one, two, back to the house Through the e see the family assembled at dinner Leander in his rooed "We’re on a tiuest rooht," he said, "that I’ve now rectified"

"Obviously Here: Leander on his phone Pacing, or at the very least s And here, in the front hall He heads quickly down the stairs, holding his suitcases, and"--she flipped to the camera of the outside of the house, where a oes Off screen, to a waiting car" She leveled a look at her brother "Where did he go after that?"

With a sigh, Milo snapped his fingers The screens went black "We don’t knohere he is now But we knohere he was and what he was doing before According to overn and coers have been knocking off the work of an artist fros that have been ‘recovered’ has raised so this a special case"

A painting appeared on the screen I blinked It had that atrays with flashes of eggshell white In the painting, a girl sat reading in the corner, bored in a red cotton dress The man next to her turned a letter opener in his hands Another looked out a darkenedThey were all clustered together in the painting’s lone splash of light; the rest of the roo--The Last of August, it’s called He was German, froht to be very prolific, though he only ever gave his agent three of his paintings to sell In the last year, an actual trove of ‘newly discovered work’ popped up on the auction circuit" The screens were crowded, suddenly, with siarden at night Always a group of figures soht objects in their hands, both looking and not looking at each other "They’ve stumped authenticators It’s i’s work And if this is revealed to the public, it could look like opportunistic forgers are benefitting off of genocide Already there areneo-Nazi pockets The Geroverns were all appealing, forged or not, and I was disappointed when the screens shut off again

August must’ve seen my face "They’re lovely," he said in that voice I hated, the one where he was pretending to be hiust Funny, it’s beautiful They all are And Leander was atteer, exa’s renaissance is a fake one?"

"That was his specific operation, yes" Milo nodded to Peterson, who began packing up the cart "For his safety, I wasn’t told th and breadth of Europe Berlin is a fair place to start, of course, but I know for a fact that he was exploring connections in other cities Budapest Vienna Prague Krakow This is a , and he could quite literally be anywhere Yes, he stopped sending eh that he doesn’t want to risk exposure Sending lengthy daily reports to your best friend, last naht of subtlety"

"He called me Lottie," she said to hie He never calls me Lottie He didn’t leave , everyone calls you Lottie" He stood "Don’t be a child Leander could very well be in over his head He could, in fact, be in danger But he has been before, and he will be again It’s his job I won’t make it my business Especially not when I’m in such a precarious position with Hadrian already Do you think it was easy explaining to him that Leander had just suddenly decided on a sojourn outside the country of his own volition, and not because he o seconds fro on infors? No I have a line to walk here"

"This isn’t that iraffe fiasco in Dallas, or that piracy case in Wales This--it feels different He disappeared from our house"

"And Father says he’s fine," Milo said, as though that was an irrefutable argument "I know you’re concerned, but I need to focus le direction Honestly, Lucien is ht now If there’s any chance he was involved in Mother’s poisoningand who knows? That threat could involve Leander as well You can’t argue that it would hurt for me to double down on Lucien Moriarty and on our faer, and while I know that she isn’t Lottie’s favorite person"--Holmes flinched--"I also know she doesn’t want her dead My etting weekly reports I’h our staff My concern is that Lucien is in Thailand, getting through to his oogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">