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"I thought you liked the swinginess"

"It’sme nauseous"

"Just close your eyes and enjoy the LAD It’s ‘Girl I See U Dancin’"

"You knew the na ransom--oh, come on You love it"

"I love it? I think that’s your job"

I wrinkled my nose at her "I know your deepest, darkest secrets, Charlotte Holive me that"

The sust of cold wind from the north, and as I opened ht

WE MADE IT BACK TO HOLMES’S ROOM AROUND MIDNIGHT to find August Moriarty waiting at the door, hat literally in hand

"Where’s Nathaniel?" she asked hio," he said

She started, like she was keeping herself fro at hio and drag away the man I want to question and you announce yourself and everything you know to Hadrian Moriarty and--"

"We didn’t see Hadrian My brother’s gone to ground, Holust said "I don’t knohere he is Nathaniel doesn’t knohere he is And neither does Milo, though his being on a red-eye flight does limit his resources soo?" I asked hieries Nathaniel’s students made that he sold to your older brother We have a business card for David Langenberg, Leander’s alias that we found in Nathaniel’s apartment And you let him rabbit? Just like that?"

"Because he doesn’t knohere Leander is," August said, "and this has never been about the Langenberg paintings I don’t care what you found"

"You’re sure he doesn’t know" Holust shook his head, as if trying to clear out noise "I’ so cavalier about this?"

"I pulled up pictures of Nathaniel’s elderly parents They’re in a home, north of the city I had its name within seconds Its address I threatened to kill the" His voice broke "Do you remember what my last name is? Or do you need an explanation for why he believedto defuse this situation "We have the link We know your uncle was posing as a Langenberg--"

"We don’t know that," she said "We don’t know anything"

"But--"

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